Projects

PITXANTU
- sound archives.

Sound recordings of different walks through the Pitxantu or pitxa forest located in the territory where my family has lived for several generations in Gulumapu, mapuche territory. Field recordings, soundscapes, sound walks, synthesizer layers, and some melodic lines with bowed string instruments and txompe make up these works, which seek to narrate an internal perception of the constant dialogue with the territory, which also perceives and listens to us.

Within this forest, various native species coexist, such as Temu, Koiwe, Kila, Folho, Püzwe, Chakay, Pülay, Külüng, among many others, most of which provide medicinal properties for both the body and the spirit. There are also various types of fungi, birds, rodents, insects, and reptiles.

These places are of great political, spiritual, and cultural importance. Sadly they are becoming increasingly scarce due to the water crisis and forest fires, the result of mega-projects of pine and eucalyptus monoculture promoted by the Chilean capitalist state.

This work is dedicated to the Mapuche political prisoners and the people who live in territorial resistance every day.

NARRATIONS OF A RETURN
// Musical Dialogues - Fewla Chomio mapu.

A series of seven compositions for violin and txompe in which— blurring the boundary between music and oral narration—I share with the audience the sound memory of the territory to which my family has belonged for generations. From there, I propose to elucidate how I found my own language through music, turning the Eurocentric aesthetics of instruments such as the violin into an identitarian tool.

This work addresses topics such as the drought in my lof located in Chomio; the experience of growing up in the split space between the countryside and the city of Padre las Casas; my family's relationship with carpentry and with enforced Catholicism; the prohibition to make music with the txompe; poetics and practices critical of the violin’s hegemony imposed by the academy; and the return to the territory after having lived far away on another continent.