04. Juni 2024

Charla y taller de Soema Montenegro Charla y taller de Soema Montenegro

Cantos ancestrales y comunitarios en Argentina

Towns, communities and their people have always been singing, humanity is manifested, traced, and told through song, their voices, and their music. Knowledge is a seed that is sown between the territories and their landscapes, in an intimate and unique fabric that each community fills with meanings, and is shared and given life through the voice and its songs.

Charla | Talk

The talk is about the work I have done with my fellow ethnomusicologists in the municipality of Termas de Villa Vil, in the Province of Catamarca, between the years 2019 and 2023. As members of the Music Team of the Rural Community Museum of Barranca Larga, we relieve in the communities, a prevailing need to activate musical memories, mainly singing with a drum box. We carry out projects that try to respond to local demands: works of compilation of the copla, drum box-building workshops for the new generations and audiovisual productions on women copleras, and mobile sound museum are some of them.

Taller | Workshop

In this workshop where we will work on the body from a sensitive perspective, we’ll seek to get closer to the languages of the mountains, the jungle, and the bush. Inhabiting bodies and territories through ancestral songs, evoking and bringing us closer to the experience of being crossed by other languages, other sounds, and movements.

We will work: Singing rounds with drum box: community songs from the Argentine Northwest
region in Quichua, Qom and Guaraní songs: Northeast region of Argentina.

• The round: sacred space
• The inner voices: memory, knowledge and territory
• Inhabit the body: space for expansion and deep listening
• Sound Memories
• The ancestral Latin American voices

No previous experience is required.

Date: June 8th

Hour: 11am – 14pm

Place: BASA Museum (Bonn Americas Collection) - Oxfordstraße 15, Bonn

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Soema Montenegro

Soema Montenegro is a singer, composer, teacher, and researcher of the Latin American and Ancestral voice. She began her studies in Musical Composition at the Conservatory of Music in 2000. She delved into different vocal and body methodologies over the last twenty years and is currently carrying out studies and research in Shamanism and the Voice.

Investigate the sounds of several Latin American cultures. She is currently writing a book with Carolina Tapia about the Latin American voice, studying the differences between technique and aesthetics in our voice, intertwining geography, gender, and politics. Likewise, she is finishing her studies in Musicology.

Since 2008, Soema Montenegro has performed as a singer and songwriter, touring countless cities in Argentina and abroad. With 5 albums released, she has performed at important international festivals on 5 continents and her music has received praise from publications such as Rolling Stone, The Observer, The Financial Times, The Wire, and La Blogothèque.

Likewise, an essential part of her work is based on Encounters with communities originating from Argentina and Latin America, and especially on the corporality of those who belong to marginal spaces and minority groups. In turn, in the last 5 years, Soema has been working with women's and dissident groups in music.

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