The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies

ORCHESTRA OF INDIGENOUS INSTRUMENTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

CONDUCTOR: Alejandro Iglesias Rossi DIRECTOR of SCENIC and VISUAL ARTS: Susana Ferreres

“Orchestra weds ancient spirituality, modern sensibility” THE JAKARTA POST Newspaper – Indonesia

“A living museum of hidden life in sound” DAILY NEWS Newspaper – South Africa

“A shamanic ritual more than a spectacle” – RADIO FRANCE

“Shamanic Sounds and Crazy Tone Clusters : Alejandro Iglesias Rossi researched extensively on the music of the indigenous people and the construction of their instruments. His work feels like you have traveled back 1000 years and you are in a strange ceremony celebrating the connections of the culture with the Earth” –

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Described by the international press as a “shamanic orchestra of the technological age” and “a living museum of sound” the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies recovers and brings to artistic life hundreds of forgotten indigenous musical instruments.

The Orchestra will present the show “Hidden Sounds of the Americas”, an audiovisual journey through the sound geography from Alaska to Patagonia featuring traditional music and contemporary compositions. Through a scenic and audiovisual display the Orchestra unites ancestral sounds with electronic technologies as well as Native dances and masks of the Americas.

The concert will feature replicas of unknown pre-Columbian instruments recovered by the Orchestra from archaeological Museums as well as from indigenous communities in the Amazonas, the Andes and Mesoamerica.

This engagement of The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies is made possible through the Mid Atlantic Tours Program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies (OIANT) is the core of the academic-artistic Model founded by Maestro Iglesias Rossi (President of the Argentine National Music Council) and Susana Ferreres at the National University of Argentina at Tres de Febrero.

The Model of the Orchestra has received the Musical Rights Award of the UNESCO International Music Council during the World Forum on Music for: “being an inspiring Program which recovers and gives artistic life to indigenous musical instruments, the majority of them long

forgotten, at the same time that it develops research, composition, university Diplomas, community courses, concerts and a pedagogical model for all levels“. https://youtu.be/yJFep16G20o

The Music of the Orchestra was selected to be preserved for 1000 years in the Global Music Vault of the North Pole that “protects the future of music by storing fundamental music of the past” through the new Project Silica by Microsoft: NewScientist Article + International Music Council News

The National Institute of Indigenous Affairs awarded the Orchestra “for their commitment as communicators of indigenous music and culture” and the National Classical Radio conferred the Orchestra its Prize for “Best Classical Ensemble 2022“.

The MERCOSUR Parliament declared about this Project: “This whole research and creation Model is a unique project in the world and attempts to approach knowledge integrally, crossing indigenous instruments with new technologies, academic learning with artistic creation, the theoretical with the practical, modern knowledge with ancient knowledge, as well as promoting an idea of the work that brings it closer to a ritualistic and celebratory conception of music”.

The Orchestra performed the Opening Ceremony for the 500 Presidents of National Universities of the Americas at the Higher Education Conference 2018 organized by the UNESCO International Institute in the largest cover Stadium of Latinamerica: https://youtu.be/omEBDlpbiFc

The same year (and for the first time in History) the Orchestra premiered a complete Program for Indigenous Instruments and Symphony Orchestra, performed with the RadioTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra as Opening of the Imago Slovenia Festival of the Medieval City of Ljubljana and broadcasted live for the European Broadcasting Union: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD9iEiFRhWE

The Orchestra has toured extensively around the world: Festival Berlioz (Paris), World Music Days (Hong Kong), Indonesia Art Summit (Jakarta), Bay of Islands Festival (New Zealand), Latitude 35° South Festival (South Africa), Cervantino International Festival (Mexico), Bibliotheca of Alexandria (Egypt), Festival of the Peoples from the Deserts (Sahara Desert), Festival Messiaen (France), Relections Festival (Singapore), International Percussion Festival (Puerto Rico), International Festival Leo Brouwer (Cuba), New Zealand National Museum, International Music Festival of Bariloche (Argentine Patagonia), Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (France), Djoua Festival (Algeria), Festival Ad Libitum (Poland), Porta World Music Festival (Latvia), Eesti Concert Season (Tallinn, Estonia) and Teatro Colon (Argentine), among others: Presentation Video