Ricardo Mandolini has been played on NTS in shows including Pete Goes To Town w/ Pete Swanson, featured first on 22 November 2017. Songs played include Estallido Breve ("Kurze Explosion").

Ricardo Mandolini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1950. He studied musical composition under Guillermo Graetzer and Francisco Kröpfl. From 1977-1983 he pursued electronic music studies under Hans Ulrich Humpert (DAAD Scholarship) at the Musikhochschule Köln, Germany. During this period he received several invitations to work at electronic music studios including EMS, Sweden, (Swedish Institute Scholarship), IPEM, Belgium, and Technical University, Berlin. In 1983 he obtained the title kunstlerische reifeprüfung of the Musikhochschule Köln….