MUSICASAB. Grupos institucionales

Abstract

The musical groups of the Superior Academy of Arts of Bogotá are a concrete result of the path taken by the Musical Arts Curricular Project. A Program that, since its creation twelve years ago, has worked decisively to consolidate a cultural project that includes spaces for the production of knowledge, a solid training proposal and the consequent projection of its achievements to society. These groups arise from curriculum training spaces such as Ensembles and articulate their scope to the intense artistic activity that the Curricular Project offers to the city each semester (seventy concerts, for an audience of eight thousand people, on average). Such proposals include repertoires of various formats, genres, languages ​​and composers - some of them, teachers at the Academy. In the same way, musical groups become agents that disseminate an institutional proposal that aims at the democratization of art and culture, formation of publics presentation and appropriation of artistic products conceived from an academic perspective. Invited by the pressing need to document this process, we propose the recording of this album, as sound evidence that records the current state of the program, its actors, its internal dynamics and results. On the other hand, we conceive this document as a conducive means for the circulation and dissemination of those musical expressions that have been of special interest to the Program: some typical of the musical tradition of the West, and others, musical manifestations inscribed in popular, traditional culture. and regional of our country and the continent. We hope that this work becomes a vital reference for our future development, that it perpetuates what has already been said and allows the music of the ASAB to reach as much and further than its musicians have dreamed of.