“We have to get out of our heads the idea that original towns are past ”, says Edgar Ruiz Garza, a sociologist and anthropologist who has dedicated himself to investigating the scenes of contemporary popular music in native languages.
This interest led Edgar Ruiz, in collaboration with colleagues from Mexico and Colombia, to create Huums! – Sound Chronotopies, a series de videopodcast in which contemporary sound creation experiences developed within indigenous communities of these two countries.
In an interview, Ruiz Garza explains that ” sound heritage of the original cultures have always been contemporary. “In that sense, he explains, peoples have always resorted to both innovation and memory to resist and continue to exist.
“Contemporary music is not just rock or experimental music. Contemporary music is also the ancestral songs and they are contemporary because they continue to exist, because they are current “
The four-episode series intends that the exercise of listening does not stop there only, but that viewers can enter into the contexts and ways of life of the people who create these sounds, in addition to knowing the political and cultural circumstances that are lived in communities of music creators. The idea of the project was also to generate a knowledge exchange between music creators and researchers who collaborated on Huums! – Sound Chronotopiesas well as with the viewers.
In the first episode, “Kuwai: owner of music and dance”, which premieres this Friday, October 1, it talks about the yapurutú, wind instrument that occurs in the Guainía department, in Colombia, by Fernando López and his son, José López, who preserve the sabbreviations of traditional instruments region of.
Episode number two, titled “Embera Warra: Embera resistance and new sounds”, will premiere on Friday, October 8. In this the story of Walter Queragama and Gonzalo Queragama, From young rappers who were displaced from their territory, in the jungle of the Andágueda river in Bagado Chocó, Colombia.
“Toro Canelo and the medicine of the Comca’ac people”, third episode of the series that premieres on Friday, October 15, is a conversation with the musician and traditional dancer Roberto Canelo Bull, who lives in the town of Comca’ac de Punta Chueca, Sonora, where community health situations are generated through dance and sound.
The last episode of the series, which will air on Friday, October 22, is “Alone with Näwayomo: contemporary Mayan and zoque sound”, which will address the experience that the creators of the series have had with the popular music movement in native languages, in particular that of Edgar Ruiz Garza.
The fourth episode also seeks to make known that “not only music, but also sound art, soundscape and sound experimentation can have a function of fight and resistance”As in the case of sound artists Saul Kak y PH JoeHe, who faced with the threat of megaprojects to the zoque community they created a protest through audiovisual elements, explains the researcher.
All episodes of the series Huums! – Sound Chronotopies will premiere on Fridays in October, at 7:00 p.m., in the YouTube channel of the University Museum of Chopo, as well as Facebook Live broadcasts from the museum and the Huums!
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