Thursday, 29 December 2011 13:16
Edesio Alejandro, Photo courtesy of grammy.com
Our music, one of the finest of its kind, has many different genres and is giving life to different styles and movements, such as the avant-garde movement and the Cuban electro-acoustic music.
In electro-acoustics the musicians use autochthonous rhythms from Cuban folklore, mixed up with contemporary and universal sounds. The movement in Cuba is lead by Juan Blanco, Leo Brower and Carlos Fariñas, who marked a radical change in our culture, coming-up with a new music style with the help of electronic technology, right for those who like the combination of sound with time.
After 1965 more musicians joined the movement, such as Harold Gramatges, Argeliers León, Roberto Valera, Andrés Alén, among others whose creations come with a base of sounding cells with multiple timbre changes. Songs like Música incidental campesina, Ensamble 5 y Seis sones sencillos para piano, are some pieces of the repertoire of Cuban electro-acoustic music, which has turned into an identity element. It has gained importance in other genres as well, like cinema, counting with Edesio Alejandro, Juan Marcos Blanco, Juan Piñera, Julio Roloff and other composers that apply sounds in different movies which has lead to cinematographic awards worldwide.
The new generation will continue with the cultivation of this “tendency of modernity” inside and outside of institutions which time can’t stop, as what is expressed by artistic sensuality cannot be ephemeral, will stay forever and will keep enriching the world.
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