Change and Permanence in Latin American Electroacoustic and Computer Music: A Compositional Approach.
Martín Alejandro Fumarola · University of Michigan Library Repository · 1998
This paper is an analitical approach to how the latest Latinamerican electroacoustic and computer music has evolved with respect to that one of two and three decades ago, i.e., what elements remain and what elements have changed.The compositional features present in two stylistic and technological groups are considered: on the one hand the "pure Latinamerican contemporary music", and on the other hand, "the computer music group".I realized a compared analysis between two pieces, "Homenaje a la Flecha Clavada en el Pecho de Juan Díaz de Solís" by Coriún Aharonián (Uruguay) belonging to the first group, and "Nahual II" by Roberto Morales-Manzanares (Mexico) of the second aforementioned group, taking into account the following analytical elements: the sense of time, discursiveness and non-discursiveness, use of reiterative elements, austerity, violence and taste for "little things", employment of silence, presence of the "primitive", cultural identity, in what manner technological means are taken in, and rupture of the borders.These analytical axis follow the framework expressed by Uruguayan musicologist Coriun Aharonian in his research article "Breaking Through Borders -An approach to compositional trends in Latin America".By contrasting the two pieces I try to establish the evolutive tendence between the two groups as drafted by the author in his paper "An Approach to a Latinamerican Computer Music".In all cases, the compositional approach is stressed.