PachaKamani
On Tuesday, July 30th, we host on our weekly FM slot on 88,4 Berlin / 90,7 Potsdam the episode 24 of PachaKamani series at 12:00 (CET)
Sesión 24 - Kamani Archipel Músicos del Carnaval de Oruro. Historias de Vida Webinar LIVE
En la sesión 24 desde Archipel y PachaKamani compartimos la segunda parte del webinar sobre historias de vida de músicos de banda del departamento de Ouro (Bolivia). Hablamos con Ricardo Vasquez Rivera autor del libro “Músicos del Carnaval de Oruro. Historias de Vida”.
Ser músico de banda de bronce en Bolivia se considera una profesión en sectores populares y rurales, pero conlleva sacrificios familiares y riesgos personales. El libro “Músicos del Carnaval de Oruro. Historias de Vida” de Ricardo Vásquez Rivera compila más de 40 relatos de músicos de bandas, ofreciendo una visión enriquecedora de la antropología y etnomusicología en Bolivia.
La investigación no solo aborda la actividad musical de estos músicos, sino también sus vidas cotidianas y cómo la música ha impactado sus vidas y las de sus familias. Los músicos de Oruro representan una constelación fascinante que ha contribuido al patrimonio cultural de Bolivia. El libro también explora la historia y el desarrollo de las festividades en Oruro, destacando la importancia de generaciones de artistas en su construcción.
El libro “Músicos del Carnaval de Oruro. Historias de Vida” ofrece una mirada profunda y valiosa a la vida y las experiencias de los músicos de banda de bronce en Bolivia, destacando su contribución al patrimonio cultural de Bolivia y su resiliencia frente a desafíos significativos.
Ricardo Vásquez Rivera El autor, Ricardo Vasquez Rivera, es un músico de bandas de bronce del Carnaval de Oruro y también se desempeña como fotógrafo. Estudió Arqueología en la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Sus áreas de interés de investigación incluyen la arqueología del pasado reciente y contemporáneo, la arqueología histórica, las bandas de bronce en Bolivia y las historias de vida. Ha realizado diversas publicaciones y manuscritos relacionados con temas arqueológicos. Además, es miembro del colectivo Crónicas del Carnaval de Oruro y se dedica a visibilizar a los músicos y artistas a menudo descuidados por la literatura formal, particularmente a través de su trabajo en el libro “Músicos del Carnaval de Oruro. Historias de Vida.”
Comusik Podcast - Season 9 Episode 3: Verónica Mota - Espectra Negra
On Tuesday, July 30th, we host on FM slot on 88,4 Berlin / 90,7 Potsdam the Comusik Podcast - season 9 Episode 3 at 13:00 (CET)
In this episode 3 of comusik Podcast season 9, we present the interdisciplinary artist, Veronica Mota aka Espectra Negra from México.
Verónica Mota:
Verónica Mota is a distinguished philosophy scholar whose work spans academia, epistemological politics, electronic music, sound art, and performative text. She has published science fiction stories, live poetry, philosophical essays, and cultural analyses, alongside an extensive body of sound and music works that intertwine with feminism, cyborg and queer theory, and activism. Her first philosophy book, which explores the concept of the cyborg in Donna Haraway’s Manifesto, will be published in Germany this year. Mota is also involved in the X-Research academic project at Freie Universität (Berlin), where she/they critically examines the Anthropocene, highlighting its pressing issues from a materialist and ecofeminist feminist perspective. Additionally, she/they will publish an essay on Octavia E. Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower” and Afrofuturism. This year, she/they will also release a new album with the German label Hands, under her/their real name and artistic alias, Espectra Negra. Mota appeals for interdisciplinarity and decolonial narratives for emancipation.
All updates about the upcoming album and book will be announced officially after sommer 2024.
Content of the radio program:
I. Presentation and background of creative work and its activism from different uses of technology.
II. Art for art’s sake or art with content and message.
III. Background on Espectra negra.
IV. Explanation and context of the work “Utopie & Widerstand”.
V. Listening of the piece “Utopie & Widerstand” from the album NIHIL (2023) Camembert Électrique – France.
VI. Explanation of the piece “I shall sing until my land is free” based on a piece about the Palestinian struggle and resistance by the musician Muslimgauze – I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free (2013).
VII. Audition of the work “I shall sing until my land is free” (2023).
VIII. Explanation of the work “Melodic Minstreals (All birds should be able to sing)”.
IX. Audition of the work “Melodic Minstreals (All birds should be able to sing)” (2023)
Links:
TikTok: 777antigona
Photo credit: Viviana Zúñiga
Archipel e.V is a small arts and culture association registered within the german requirments, according to which we assigned as our main purpose advocating for tolerance in all areas of culture and the concept of international understanding, especially supporting the emancipation of entities that have been pushed to the margins.
In the last months we have watched consecutive war crimes being commited by Israel backlashing Hamas horrendous attentat on October 7th 2023. We have watched powerful governments, in particular the German, support inconditionally and financially an offensive in Palestine that is unjustifiable. We watched hate speech profaned by the mouths of people in charge. We watched hundreds of international human rights organisations desperately denoucing an on-going massacre. We have watched protests, especially in Berlin, that in no way endorsed Hamas - instead mourne and demanded respect to human rights - be violently supressed. We have watched police reinforcement of racial profiling and provocations to the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communitites living in Berlin. We have watched a quick escalation of discrimitation and ignorant statements about Arabs and Muslims, specially inside schools, from educational staff and school communities. We have watched german art and educational institutions, when at all making public statements, show solidarity to the losses of Israel and silence about what is happening in Palestine. We confirm a complex set of silencing mechanisms at play against those that are critical of mainstream narratives.
Hereby we publicly declare our devastation about this situation and that we do not agree with the ways the German government and the German cultural and academic circuit has acted so far. We are disapointed and specially revolted by the discrepancy between all the decolonial discourse that has permeated the arts - a staging in which all members of our organisation have acted upon - and the general retraction to a brutal scenario that blows up the main injustices and power inequalities decolonization fights against. We understand there are many mechanisms for silencing at play, still, we cannot accept the submission to this oppression of speech and criticism. We call specially the german voices to work out through their reasons not to speak up and use their locus of speech that is of particular relevance to the injustices exploding in the last months and to the extreme-right agenda that is taking over more and more space.
We would like also to call attention to the many ways in which this current crisis reinforce mechanisms of polarization and separation between people all over the world. Archipel will put its efforts in maintaing its open channel for all voices and contuining to produce spaces of encounter in times of further increase in broken relationships. Inasmusch as we feel we must speak out against the current upmost injustices, we also need to stay aware of the importance of connectivity and cross-communication in the sight of a large aparatus that is trying to disrupt valuable interpersonal relationships. We want to contribute to free and diverse media environment and foster cultures of listening that produce empathy and respect.
CEASE FIRE NOW. REPAIR.
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