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Paola Torres N​ú​ñ​ez del Prado & The People of Tupicocha - To Wear Quipus Or Cables

from Anthology Of Experimental Music From Peru by Various Artists

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from Anthology Of Experimental Music From Peru, released March 5, 2021
Frankly, when I am asked about how I make music, I don't know what to answer, as I never think I am actually creating "music". When I think about the concept of "music", I think about harmony, about melody about a very western idea of beauty, where dissonance and noise could be seen as "ugly". I know that all of these more classical ideas of what music is have been questioned by the avant garde movements in the XX century - what could go beyond the view of the more traditional way of perceiving music or its antitesis (let's say, noise), is rhythm: maybe rhythm is what can be taken as what all humans understand as music, even if by western interpretation it is JUST considered as a component of what music is.
I am not a musician, even if some of the sound compositions I do could start having some shared characteristics with what one considers "music". That is another reason to get impostor syndrome whenever I am included with fellow artists that are indeed rightfully "musicians", as they have studied all what needs to be studied (even if self taught - that does not matter), and I have not. I don't play any proper instruments, I have been formed as a visual artist and originally as a painter... When I think about my inclusion alongside other people I respect and admire, say, like in this album of unexplained sounds, well, it is the most gratifying things I can be exposed to, because I am achieving something I was never meant to, despite the impostor syndrome and the fact that there is this little voice in my head always saying "there was a real musician out there that deserved that space more than you". But maybe, just maybe, what I do could be interesting because, unintentionally, I am fulfilling the dream of the old school Futurists that longed for a person that had no proper training in music to start creating it. Someone free.
I am free because I am ignorant.
I do wonder though, how free I really am, if I have heard music all of my life, albeit not playing it?
How do I make "music", in any case?
Again, I think about capturing, transforming, and generating sounds. Never ever have I thought I am making music. So I just capture (environmental and/or human voice) sounds that I consider interesting, generate them (mostly with the computer, usually with Pure Data), transform them with this same media and/or with disruptive tactile controllers (textile, in my case) - I started doing all of this live, I must say. In my case, the sounds that can be considered more harmonious, started from improvisation in live sound art performances. Actually, I have gone from noise (my first sound performance, in 2008, with textile controllers, was basically just noise) towards harmony, yet never leaving that side completely aside, and from live acts, to pre-recorded audio tracks. The latter is pretty recent, in fact. But all throughout this journey I have been interested in opposites: noise vs. harmony, nature vs. the machine, pure contentless human voice vs. actual words, order vs. chaos (random) west vs. ... non western, I guess. For the latter, I have worked alongside very interesting people, like singer/actress Auristela Brito from the Amazonian Shipibo Conibo community of Nueva Betania, or the inhabitants of Tupicocha town, who still preserve the Quipu tradition up to date. I guess I am an in between, a half breed, in between two cultures and the analogue/the digital... a mestizo-going-cyborg of some sorts... Maybe cyborgs are always mestizos? That's an interesting idea to put out there, maybe.

Paola Torres
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