Guillermo Bocanegra in Argentina

Negra40 / 2018 Season

Guillermo Bocanegra in Argentina Presentation of the “Ciclo del exilio” project

Tuesday, November 27, 7:00 pm Sala Negra40

Summary

The project EL CICLO DEL EXILIO. Colombian Music for Solo Guitar is the design, study, analysis and editing of a sound and written record, released on compact disc, containing the solo-guitar work El Ciclo del Exilio by the Colombian composer Guillermo Rendón García. The written record is the CD’s inner booklet (120 pages), whose text gathers accounts in the voices of performers, musicologists, researchers and composers, together with two of Rendón’s foundational texts — Teorética del Arte and Antropología del Arte — now filtered through the interpretation of his work. This is a distinctive feature of the project: the philosopher is the composer, and the researcher is the guitarist, who investigates and applies the creator’s aesthetic and philosophical premises to his own performance.

The intended product is an audio-and-text document whose format — compact disc — aims to make a contribution in the academic sphere, in guitar practice, and in Colombian musical heritage.

The goal is to record, edit, publish and disseminate a compact disc with booklet of the work El Ciclo del Exilio for solo guitar, by the Colombian composer and aesthetician Guillermo Rendón García, whose staging and performance process is grounded in the composer’s own aesthetic thinking about his music.

Program

Ciclo del Exilio Op. 48 (1985) Guillermo Rendón (Colombia, 1935)

comenzar con el fuego cada vez que cantos pasan crepúsculo de su último espejo un atávico navegante el cielo era verde … y ahí terminó el universo gran fuga al macrocosmos

Guillermo Bocanegra

A classically trained guitarist, his interests lean toward performance, experimentation, free improvisation and pataphysics. He has given concerts, lectures and masterclasses across Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan, presenting contemporary music with a Latin American emphasis since 2002. Bocanegra has recorded three solo albums: “La otra guitarra” (2002), “La tradición se rompe” (2006), and “Círculo de tierra roja” (2010). He is a member of the guitar trio Trip Trip Trip and of Ensamble CG. Together with these and other groups, he has taken part in various collective recordings, as soloist and chamber musician, among them: “CG en Vivo” (2015), “Que cosa tan seria” (2014, Trip Trip Trip), “Música Onejitiva” (2011) and “Trip Trip Trip” (2012), among others. Guillermo currently serves as a member of the Acoustic Guitar Department and Director of the Self-Assessment and Accreditation Committee of the Facultad de Artes ASAB, Universidad Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia.