Remixing the Stage: Circular Listening SessionS

EchoES from the session at Refuge Worldwide

Last summer's sessions of  Remixing the Stage: Circular Listening Sessions  at Refuge Worldwide are coming to our SAVVYZΛΛR airwaves.

Tune in on Sunday for the session with the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos de Bolivia. Present with the smaller ensemble they still filled the studio to the brink – with bodies and even more with echoing sounds over space and time. The orchestra fosters a dialogue – originating in Bolivia – between Indigenous Andean musical traditions and contemporary creation. They reinterpret traditional repertoires and new compositions through the use of native wind instruments, offering a proposal that combines precision, sensitivity, and creative risk. Their work brings to the stage a conscious, embodied, and collective mode of listening where memory, territory, and experimentation converge. 

RE-MIXING THE STAGE: CIRCULAR LISTENING SESSIONS  opens up the question of how we can meet and listen to each other beyond hierarchies, impositions, frameworks, and modern categories. At first glance, it proposes a “simple” way of encountering one another, searching for what Silvia Cusicanqui calls a Ch’ixi world – where opposing forces and contradictions coexist without seeking synthesis.