UNTRAINING THE EAR: Listening session n°5

14.11.2018 – 15.11.2018
With Carlos Gutiérrez

and Tatiana Lopéz

Sikus – workshop and concert

Wednesday 14.11.2018
9:00–18:30 workshop

Thursday 15.11.2018
19:00 (doors 18:30) concert
20:00 lecture by Carlos Gutiérrez and Tatiana López

Concert program
Tuaillu de la Comunidad de Upinhuaya (traditional Bolivian tune)
Performed by all participants of the Workshop

Carlos Gutiérrez: Jintili (2012)
Performed by Jorge Villaseca, Boris Slowikowski, Tatiana López and Carlos Gutiérrez

Carlos Gutiérrez: Ch’ipa (versión 2018)
Performed by all participants of the Workshop

To continue the quest of rethinking what contributes to the universalities of contemporary music today, the experimental avant-garde composer Carlos Gutiérrez (guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program) and musician and visual artist Tatiana López were invited for the next UNTRAINING THE EAR listening session. In this session, people listen to and through Sikus, a traditional Andean panpipe which will be built during a two days long workshop-performance listening session with participants and the artists.
Through almost inaudible sonic variations performed in the works of Carlos Gutiérrez and Tatiana Lopéz, such as subtle pitch bends, polyphonic sounds produced by the Bolivian wind instruments, polyrhythmic musical composition structures, their work pushes the listeners to a more concrete listening mode and creates situational soundscapes. Those scapes therefore become an ongoing process of sharing through the sonic imagination and relationships between the knowns and the unknowns, found in the musical constellations experienced during the performance. They explore depths of reflection on togetherness, everyday materials, time, space, and movement.
The term indigenous (esp. indígena) in that case is used in the Bolivian context, to designate an identification assumed by ancestral cultures. However, in the current Bolivian context it is also a word questioned in its meanings which will be one of the core conversations raised and challenged in this session in an open conversation with the invited public.
On the first day of this Listening Session, Carlos Gutiérrez and Tatiana Lopéz will give a workshop on constructing Bolivian Sikus (panpipes in Aymara language) and teach a traditional tune from la Comunidad de Upinhuaya. After that, participants of the workshop will apply the learnt techniques and principles to collectively work on a contemporary music piece using the instruments they have produced.
The second day of the Listening Session is open to the public, and we invite you to a lecture by Carlos Gutiérrez and Tatiana López in which they will converse about their work with the Experimental Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments (OEIN) in its investigative pedagogical and creative scope, including audio and video samples of the oeuvre of the orchestra, and various collaborations which they have done extensively with indigenous communities in Bolivia. Subsequent to the lecture, the three musical compositions will be performed in a concert open to the public.

Curation Kamila Metwaly
In conversation with Julia Gerlach
Co-Curation: Marcus Gammel, Jan Rohlf
Production: Beya Othmani, Ola Zielińska
Communication: Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Anna Jäger
Visuals: Elsa Westreicher
Management: Lema Sikod, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock
In collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and CTM Festival
On air at Klangkunst by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, presented by Esther Schelander
With support by Musicboard Berlin, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Medienpartner: Norient

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More information:
https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2018/untraining-the-ear-listening-session-no-5/