From June 4 to 6, 2024, in partnership with various cultural and university institutions, the CMUS Millennium Nucleus will hold its first Interdisciplinary Seminar: “Musical and Sound Cultures in Chile and Latin America.” The seminar will bring together leading researchers and intellectuals from different countries in the region to explore contemporary social transformations through musical, sound, and aural practices.

Tuesday 4th: Acoustic Violence

The first day of the event, managed in conjunction with NIMSE-U. Mayor aims to investigate the acoustic violence experienced by our societies, exploring the sonic and aural dimensions of contemporary conflict. This encounter will feature two days of debate—morning and afternoon—with the participation of prominent researchers from the national and international field: Luis Achondo (Chile), Rosana Lara (Mexico), Ana María Ochoa (Colombia/USA), Oriana Bernasconi (Chile), Rodrigo Suárez (Chile), Natalia Bieletto (Chile/Mexico), Ana Lidia Domínguez (Mexico) and Felipe Trotta (Brazil).

The closing session was led by Ana María Ochoa, with the keynote address “Sound Extractivisms and the Military-Industrial Aural Complex” in the auditorium of the El Claustro Campus of the Universidad Mayor.

Download the program for the Symposium “Acoustic Violence and Sound Worlds in Conflict” here.

Wednesday, June 5th: CMUS training work

On the second day, thanks to the collaboration of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, the CMUS research team and the thesis students of the Nucleus will participate in discussion workshops with Dr. Néstor García Canclini (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico), and the Dr. Ana María Ochoa (Tulane University, United States). Wednesday’s focus will be on CMUS’s educational role, through specialized activities and internal work.

The activities on the 5th will conclude with Rossana Lara‘s lecture, “Political Ecology of Music from the Multiple Bodies of the Huichol Violin.” This will be open to the general public and will take place in the Museum’s courtyard.

Thursday 6th: Music, cultural policies and citizenship

Finally, on Thursday, June 6, the closing day of the Seminar will take place. Organized in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage and its Community Cultural Points program, the Master’s Program in Latin American Anthropology at Alberto Hurtado University, and the La Moneda Cultural Center, the event will consist of two sessions.

• From 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the Panel will be held “Cultural policies from below. Experiences through music”, with guests from various national cultural groups and initiatives. In this session, guests will reflect on their experiences and how music makes it possible to develop cultural policies from a citizen perspective. The panel will conclude with a discussion moderated by CMUS researchers Laura Jordán and Eileen Karmy, and will feature guests such as Rosario Bravo (Community Choirs); Andrés Pérez (Conchalí Big Band); Rodrigo Montes (COLCHI); Lakitas Matriasaya; Franco Toro (Enrique Soro School); and Maribel Rodríguez (Gremio Recreativo Samba School).
• From 12:00 to 13:30 hrs., the Keynote Lecture will be held “Where to now?” Cultural policies when there is not only State and citizens“, by Dr. Néstor García Canclini and the Dr. Ana Rosas Mantecón (Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico). The event will be moderated by Carla Pinochet, alternate director of CMUS and director of the Master’s in Latin American Anthropology.

Here you can download the complete program of the week with the activities of the Seminar and other events organized by researchers from the CMUS “Symposium “Acoustic Violence and Sound Worlds in Conflict” and the III National Meeting of Traditional and Folk Music

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