Ocho estudios sobre la escucha y un paisaje sonoro

Abstract

One of the most recurring interests I have had in my musical process is finding ways to deepen and improve my way of listening to music every day. In most academies, universities, and musical education institutions in Colombia, the traditional approach is to stimulate the student's auditory development in an idiomatic way. This way of introducing students to listening is based on musical aspects considered traditional, such as functional tonality, the handling of intervals derived from the chromatic scale, rhythmic figuration of European tradition, etc., which can be very useful for the musician who wishes to focus their professional life solely on music that contains this particular way of approaching the musical process - which is of course very important due to the large number of musical styles that develop according to these parameters - but for the musician who also wants to work with other types of tools, resorting to a wider range of possibilities - such as the sounds that are produced daily by life itself - and wants to develop a hearing beyond the concepts mentioned above, it could be insufficient. It should be noted that for many people - including professional musicians - music is a phenomenon foreign to the sounds produced by daily life, which is why in many cases these go unnoticed even when they are right in front of them. In my opinion, if these sounds are seen in a different way, they can be an inexhaustible source of musical pieces and styles.