considered that it is very important to give space to any kind
of alternative electronic music if it retains the experimental
spirit, because we think that computer music technology has
broken through and has influenced in a positive way the
POP music world.
In the year 2000 the Ex-Teresa Arte Actual
museum organized the second international sound art
festival which theme was Humor y Aliento (Humor and
breath). We invited renowned international artists from
different countries like the Italian Maurzio Nannucci, the
Japanese Minoru Sato and Jio Shimizu, the Americans Paul
de Marinis, Krystina Bobrowsky and Kelly Davis, the
Argentineans Jorge Maccci and Mario Marcelo Mary, and
the sound artist and composer Slavek Kwi form the Check
Republic. We had also Mexican artists and composers
whose interest in the past festival motivated them to make
new and interesting sound works.
This year we presented the third edition of the
festival which theme was Eso... (That...). The festival grew
and had more official support from the government. Ten
thousand people attended and the interest in all the national
media became stronger. Many inter-media works (audio and
video) by artists like Carsten Nicolai (Germany) Phill
Niblock (USA) and Ricardo Nicolayevsk (Mexico)
characterized this last festival. We had more live electronics
concerts that were presented with live interactive computer
visuals controlled by the performers. We invited for the first
time curators and directors from other music and sound art
festivals, like the British David Toop and the Spanish Oscar
Abril. We had also very interesting interactive installations
like "The Fire Inside" whose author is the Swedish Ake
Parmerud, and we had a wonderful workshop realized by
Pauline Oliveros. Finally, we presented two CD's that are
compilations of computer music and sound art works
presented in the first two festivals.
2 Conclusion
We think that the existence of this festival has pushed young
Mexican composers to get involved in the computer music
field, as well as visual Mexican artists to explore the sound
installation and sound sculpture fields by means of using all
kinds of new technologies. We hope that our festival will
help to give way to new possibilities of careers in the
academic centers, because up to now there are no graduate
or postgraduate programs in the computer music and the
electronic art fields in Mexico.
3 Participants
Some relevant Mexican Computer Music
Composers that have participated in the festival are: Javier
Alvarez, Julio Estrada, Guillermo Galindo, Alejandra
Hernandez, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Salvador Rodriguez,
Vicente Rojo, Victor Romero, Antonio Russek and Rodrigo
Sigal. Some relevant Mexican artists that have produced
sound art works for the festival are: Francys Alys, Arcangel
Conastantini, Galia Eibenshutz, Hector Falcon, Gabriel
Kuri, Machintosco, Gabriel Orozco, Fernando Ortega,
Miguel Angel Rios, Francisco Xavier Rodriguez, Luz Maria
Sanchez and Laureana Toledo.
Some relevant international composers that have
participated are: Jorge Antunes, Christian Clozier, Joel
Chadabe, Francis Dhomont, Agostino Di Scipio, Gregorio
Jimenez, Erik Michael Karlsson, Eric La Casa, Paul Lansky,
Phill Niblock, KK. Null, Adolfo Nufiez, Eduardo Polonio,
David Rosenboom, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Horacio Vaggione
and Edson Zampronha. Some relevant international sound
artists that have participated are: Rilo Chmielorz, Alonso
Gil, Rolf Julius, Oswaldo Macia, Paul Panhuysen, Juan
Carlos Robles and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
References
Rocha Iturbide, M & Santamarina, G. 1999. "Ruido...The first
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Mexico CIty
Rocha Iturbide, M & Santamarina, G. 2000. "Humor y Aliento.
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Actual, INBA. Mexico CIty
Rocha Iturbide, M. 2000. "El Arte Sonoro. Hacia una nueva
disciplina?" Viceversa Magazine 21(1): 12-16.
Rocha Iturbide, M & Santamarina, G. 2001.. "Eso... The third
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