arte y sociedad

“Arts Plural: A Reader on Artistic Intelligence” is available free from the ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) Biennial Conference 2024.

Two SIMM (Social Impact of Music Making) research seminars are welcoming attendees.

More than 12 years ago, during my first visit to the then-fledgling Sinfonía por el Perú program, I met a boy—let’s call him Juan—who stood out from the crowd of children. Not only because his double bass was more than twice his size. It was also his charisma, the joyful enthusiasm with which he played his giant instrument, and, even then, his social skills and his attentive devotion to his fellow musicians at his núcleo in the La Victoria district of Lima, Peru.

La Venezuela de 1975 contrasta con su realidad actual. Hace cincuenta años, el país estaba totalmente reconstruido tras una opresiva dictadura militar y en vías de crecimiento económico. Ese era el contexto en el que un joven y brillante compositor y director de orquesta, que también era un político dotado, utilizó sus talentos combinados para convencer al gobierno de que apoyara algo que parecía fuera de lugar para el oficialismo, pero, en su visión, como en casa.