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Various Artists - Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984) '2024

Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
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Album name Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
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Date 2024
Genreexperimental,avant-garde,electronic
Play time 66 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1720 Kbps / 48 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
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Size 569 mb
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This compilation offers a first overview of the early works of electronic and
tape music created by Peruvians between 1964 and 1984. This period marks a
technical and aesthetic evolution that allows us to understand the development
of electronic music in the Peruvian context, from an initially internationalist
model to a more situaded one.

The first phase occurs in the 1960s, when many composers migrated outside Peru
in search of advanced training and access to knowledge and infrastructure that
the academic music scene in Peru could not provide. During these specialization
trips, Peruvian composers gained access to the languages of the international
avant-garde of the post-war period. César Bolaños traveled to Argentina,
to the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) at the
Instituto Di Tella, where he produced an extensive body of work, including
"Intensidad y Altura" (1964) for magnetic tape, the first electronic work
produced in the CLAEM electronic music laboratory. Similarly, Edgar Valcárcel
was a CLAEM fellow and also spent time at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic
Music Center in New York, where he composed, among other works, "Invención"
(1967) for magnetic tape. Enrique Pinilla also passed through there, composing
"Prisma" (1967) for magnetic tape. Alejandro Núñez Allauca was another
CLAEM fellow, where he composed "Gravitación Humana" (1970) for magnetic
tape.

However, several Peruvian composers faced the dilemma of how to continue these
sonic explorations locally without relying solely on specialization trips to
access the infrastructure of major international laboratories. Due to the
inability to establish a laboratory for electronic music production in Peru
during these early decades, given the weak institutional framework of the
academic music circuit and the absence of budget allocations for the National
Conservatory, it was rather private initiatives in recording studios that paved
the way for the sustained production of experimental pieces with electronic
setups and media, largely oriented towards the production of music for film and
dance. This was accompanied by a notable interest in utilizing the sounds of
native Peruvian instruments. This also marked a shift from an internationalist
model of electroacoustic music towards an openness to other types of sonic
experimentation.

Composers such as Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Luis David Aguilar, and Corina Bartra
belong to this new period, which also marks the emergence of an initial scene of
experimental music and free improvisation. Ruiz del Pozo pursued a Master's in
Electronic and Film Music at the Royal College of Music in London, where he
composed "Selvynas" (1978), part of his series "Composiciones Nativas," concrete
music pieces based on native Peruvian instruments. Upon returning to Lima, he
continued producing music for films using electronic sounds and setups. Luis
David Aguilar also became involved in music for film and television, composing,
among other works, "Hombres de viento" (1978), the soundtrack for José
Antonio Portugal's film, which mixes native and Western instruments amplified
and processed electronically. He would be one of the first to have a private
recording studio. Corina Bartra, after being part of various improvisation
ensembles alongside musicians such as Ruiz del Pozo and Aguilar, traveled to
London where she took courses in composition and electronic music, composing the
mixed work "Aves en vuelo al sur" for voice, instruments, and tape in a private
studio.

Sonic Transits: Electronic and Tape Music by Peruvian Composers (1964-1984) is
part of the Essential Sounds Collection series produced by Buh Records for
Centro del Sonido, a website set up as a digital archive of Peruvian
experimental music and sound art.

Tracklist:
1.01 - César Bolaños - Intensidad y altura (4:49) 
1.02 - Edgar Valcarcel - Invención (5:22) 
1.03 - Enrique Pinilla - Prisma (5:26) 
1.04 - Alejandro Nunez Allauca - Gravitación Humana (13:43) 
1.05 - Arturo Ruiz Del Pozo - Selvynas (7:04) 
1.06 - Luis David Aguilar - Hombres De Viento (13:01) 
1.07 - Corina Bartra - Aves en vuelo al sur (17:17)

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