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New Perspectives and a Festival

In 1990, the first studio devoted to electronic music and computers was founded by engineer Camilo Rueda and composer Andres Posada with the assistance of engineer and composer Francisco Iovino. The center was named after Jacqueline Nova and is now on the hands of composer Fabio Fuentes (b. 1957). Caternaria by Posada was the first piece composed on the studio. In December of the same year the first electro-acoustic cycle takes place on the Colombian-American Center. It featured tape pieces of composers from the continent as well as some pieces from IRCAM. It also featured Dialogos por Paz (1990) by Juan Reyes. This piece was composed using tape sounds from the assassination of political leader Luis Galan.

In 1991 the second contemporary music festival took place with no much emphasis on electro-acoustic music. Still, he Festival highlighted works of Messias Maiguashca, and Javier Alvarez. The Compositions Anagramas by Juan Reyes and Colombian composer and architect Mauricio Bejarano (b. 1955) were premiered at this time. Its recording which is the first of electro-acoustic music to be released in the country was due for 1992. Also during this festival, Colombian live-electronics musicians and composers Roberto Garcia (b. 1958) and Ricardo Arias (b. 1964) residing in Barcelona Spain, perform with their ensemble "Sol Sonoro" for the first time in Colombia. Monologo para la Ciudad Muerta for flute, double bass, percussion and electronics, and Requiem para una Muerte Anunciada, for flute and live electronics by Catalina Peralta (b. 1961) were also premiered during 1992. Cordales for String instruments and tape by Guillermo Carbo (b. 1963) are also first heard in the country at that time. Mimetismo by Canadian acousmatic composer Stephane Roy was performed on August, 1994 by Colombian guitarist Arturo Parra. The work was commissioned and dedicated to the guitarist.

1993, is the year when the first acousmatic cycle takes place, as part of the third Contemporary music festival. It was directed and produced by Mauricio Bejarano and Juan Reyes with the help of the Colombian Culture Institute and the Colombian Science Office. The works featured at that time included pieces by Francis Dhomont, and composers of the University of Montreal, Larry Austin, and several composers of the International computer music association, and Paul Lansky. Daniel Teruggi of INA-GRM who was present at the cycle performed pieces of composers from this center. Jon Appleton from Dartmouth College in the U.S. performed with the radio baton for the first time in Colombia.


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Juan Reyes
2000-12-08