ENG: Last week I participated at Ignacio Quispe’s 5-day intensive musiñu workshop at the Centro Cultural Jach’a Tunupa in El Alto. I know musiñu specialist Ignacio for almost ten years now, and I always get enthusiastic every time I hear him speaking about the history of musiñu, his personal musical life stories, the musical bamboos […]
Month: January 2024
The Sound Ecology of Musical Bamboos
ENG: Today I went to the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) in La Paz and picked up my copy of the catalogue Saman Qamasap Ist’añani: Sonoridades y Espacios Musicales of the Annual Meeting of Ethnology 2023. Thanks goes to Richard Mújica and the MUSEF team for having invited me to publish a paper […]
New Publication in Contrapunto Bolivia
ENG: I am pleased to present a new publication in the third edition of Contrapunto. Revista de Musicología del Programa de Licenciatura en Música, of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The musiñu specialist, master flute maker from Walata Grande, and good friend Ignacio Quispe, shares some of his personal stories about […]
Welcome to the Research Blog
ENG: The new year starts with good news. I am happy to launch my new research blog, in which I will inform you about activities and publications in the world of the Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes. The blog contains information about the new DFG-funded project at the Center for World Music at Hildesheim […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 