Una mirada a través de la esencia negra de nuestro pacífico colombiano, un mundo sonoro: Bunde y Currulao

Abstract

The work carried out in this research is an open door for the appropriation and integration of musical languages, both academic and traditional, based on the music of the Colombian South Pacific. It delves into the musical notation of this music, so that it can be used in other social and cultural spaces, in other musical formats, expanding on what other groups and/or musicians who investigate this topic have already been doing. In addition, it aims to further extend the cultural, social, expressive, interpretive, and musical notions of the South Pacific in the academic realm, making them accessible to interested musicians, researchers, and musical groups who intend to continue the process of recovering and sustaining these musical traditions. Likewise, a dialogue is proposed between the traditional and academic musician, where codes based on autochthonous patterns become collective, plural codes that establish a new musical language, where creation, improvisation, and the ability to manage the technical aspects of each unique musical language are fundamental. This work is based on the study of texts by historians and researchers who address the contextual, cultural, social, and musical aspects, analyzing and studying their various functions in the spaces or territories where they are performed. Based on the above, this research work addresses a technical, musical, and structural analysis, based on the transcription of two rhythms: Currulao and Bunde, main representatives of this musical tradition, taking into account the socio-cultural context that surrounds these rhythms and their expressive-interpretive and technical-musical particularities. With this, we seek to reinforce the knowledge that exists around this musical tradition in other non-traditional contexts such as the academic one, allowing a physical material to remain that contributes to the projection of future works for researchers, musical groups, capturing in the score, not only the musical notes, the symbols, the formal structures of each rhythm, but also the expressive interpretation, how this cultural experience is reflected in the music and how to translate it to paper, in order to promote and perpetuate its musical content.