Videoclip Pensamiento musical de los indígenas Wiwa - Epiara Murillo

Abstract

The ASAB Faculty of Arts Self-Evaluation and Accreditation Coordination, along with its subcommittees for Performing Arts, Dance, Fine and Visual Arts, Musical Arts, and the Master of Arts Studies, invites the general public to participate in the artistic and academic event E2020: Creation from Home: Socializations of Research-Creation Processes by ASAB Graduates. For this event, we invite you to a narrative and musical talk: "Musical Thought of the Indigenous Wiwa People of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta," with teacher Epiara Murillo, a graduate of the Musical Arts Curriculum. Epiara Murillo is a graduate of the Musical Arts program at the ASAB Faculty of Arts, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She specialized in saxophone and wrote her meritorious undergraduate thesis on ethnomusicological research, focusing on the indigenous music of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. She is an interdisciplinary artist, saxophonist, and music educator who explores aesthetics through movement, sound, and voice. She has participated in musical projects related to Colombian folklore, African music, Afrobeat, jazz, improvisation, and World Music, as well as the interpretation, creation, and research of indigenous Colombian musical logics. She has also been involved in dance and music research groups and laboratories as tools for artistic self-discovery. Since childhood, she has been connected to ancestral indigenous knowledge from some communities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and this knowledge is reflected in her artistic work. About the talk: This talk will present a cosmogonic vision of alternative musical logics that emerge within an ethnic context. It will cover the use of music, its relationship with culture and territory, a brief approach to musical analysis, and personal experiences within the community. It will also reflect on how this research generates questions for the artist and how this knowledge can be articulated within an academic setting to broaden the conceptions of artistic practice. The talk will narrate the process of the project, including its theoretical and practical phases, before delving into the core subject of the research. The activity will include relevant audio, video, photos, and bibliography, and will provide a space for questions and dialogue with the audience to encourage interaction and collective knowledge creation.