Sounds of Peru
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| Free admission |
| English |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: SPÄTI |
Peruvian archeomusicologist Gonzalo Rodriguez is currently working at the Humboldt Forum and discusses the focus of his research with curator Maurice Mengel.
In recent years, Rodriguez has reconstructed archaeological flutes from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. He uses these instruments to reconstruct and study the sounds from ancient Peru. For this event, he will also perform songs and dances recorded by ethnographer Hans Heinrich Brüning, which are amongst the oldest sound documents of Peru.
The German engineer, merchant and ethnographer Hans Heinrich Brüning (1848-1928) began his research in Peru in 1875, particularly in the north of the country and in the Lambayeque region. During his travels, he studied the archaeology and languages of the region and photo-documented the life of the local communities.
Brüning also recorded several traditional dances such as La Danza de la Pava, Chimu and Los Perritos, which are no longer performed today. Largely unknown in Germany, Brüning’s work is still present in Peru today. A museum in Lambayeque commemorates his work.
Programme
4:30 pm: DJ Set by Aporia Barrage
6 pm: Conversation between Gonzalo Rodriguez, Aporia Barrage and Maurice Mengel
afterwards: Songs from Peru (playlist)
Participants
Aporia Barrage started DJing in 1997. As part of a bar collective in Berlin she spun records from field recordings to noise, from funk to musique concrète, dark dub to Afrobrazilian grooves. A student of the year 2000’s Red Bull Music Academy in Dublin, she returned with a worldwide network of DJ friends and a residency in Dublin. Starting off with the Sonar Kollektiv show, she soon produced her own radio shows and taught radio making at Haus der Kulturen der Welt whilst hosting nights in Berlin, London and Salvador da Bahia. At rooftops in Johannesburg, boats in New York, train stations in Maputo, cosy shacks in Oslo, or dusty basements and park jams in Kreuzberg – Aporia Barrage intrigues with sets crafted for each occasion.
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Maurice Mengel is Head of Department Media: Ethnomusicology, Berlin Phonogram Archive and Visual Anthropology of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Gonzalo Rodriguez is a visiting scholar from Cusco, Peru, who specialises in music archaeology — a topic he has been researching for ten years. In 2021, he studied the flute collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin and built replicas of flutes from ancient Peru. During his research, he has also learned to play many flutes.
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