Interfluencias: implementación de elementos musicales propios del pacífico colombiano a dos composiciones basadas en la forma blues y rhythm changes

Abstract

The currulao and the porro chocoano are genres that arise on the Colombian Pacific Coast, one corresponding to the south side (currulao) and the other to the north side (Porro chocoano). These genres have musical and instrumental characteristics of great academic interest, consequently, they are exposed to musical studies and research, which open the possibility of fusions of these music with any type of genre or format. Through an exploration of a contextual and musical nature, from rhythmic, harmonic and instrumental analysis, I make two compositions that hybridize these two musics with North American musical genres: blues and rhythm changes, from which I mainly take the form of each one and the harmonic and interpretative components, resulting in the musical hybridization of the currulao with the blues form, whose name refers to one of the most important rivers in the South Pacific and the same North American genre: Guapi Blue; and the porro chocoano with the rhythm changes form, whose name also refers to one of the most important rivers in the North Pacific and the North American genre with which it is merging: Atrato Rhythm.