ENG: Thanks to Aaron Allen for supporting the publication of a current research report with an interactive ArcGIS Story Map. The research report can be accessed through the Ecomusicology Review homepage. ESP: Gracias a Aaron Allen por apoyar la publicación de un actual informe de investigación con un ArcGIS Story Map interactivo. Pueden revisar el […]
Collaboration with Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA
ENG: The Bolivian NGO Asociación Boliviana para la Investigación y Conservación de Ecosistemas Andino Amazónicos (Conservación Amazónica – ACEAA) was founded in 2011 with the aim of contributing to a sustainable management of Andean Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity. After a fruitful dialogue and exchange with the coordinator of the Science and Technology Program Daniel Larrea and other ACEAA […]
Donation of Musical Bamboos to National Herbarium of La Paz
ENG: The National Herbarium of La Paz has recently created a new collection of plant species with cultural and social use. I am happy to contribute to this new collection with a donation of a set of musical bamboo tubes, which I collected during my fieldwork among highland flute makers and lowland bamboo collectors. I […]
Vicente Ojeda and the Moseñada of the Huari Ponchos
ENG: Jesika and I had the honor to accompany Walateño musiñu specialist and musician Ignacio Quispe to the Altiplano community of Kolluhuma-Belén in Aroma province, where he met again after eleven years his good friend and musiñu musician Vicente Ojeda. Don Ignacio invited us to document his interview with Don Vicente, one of the initiators of famous Moseñada group called Huari […]
Proposal Musical Bamboos and KBAs Bolivia
ENG: On February 28th I participated at the final KBA-Bolivia meeting at the Institute of Ecology of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA) in La Paz. Several contributors and partner institutions have been present to discuss the final phase of the KBA-Bolivia project, which aims at updating the key biodiversity areas for Bolivia. I had the […]
Juan Granier Street in the 2020s: Coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath
ENG: The last time I visited the Walateño flute makers of Juan Granier Street at the Garita de Lima in La Paz city was back in 2017. I visited urban-based flute makers at their street stands (ay. qhatu) and conversed with them about musical bamboos and the future of their flute making activities. Last week, I came back and was […]
Visiting the National Herbarium of La Paz
ENG: After six years I returned to the National Herbarium of La Paz (LPB) in order to meet some old and new friends, and supporters of my project. In the meanwhile, the National Herbarium of La Paz inaugurated new facilities with more space for collections, meeting rooms, and project working spaces. It was so lovely […]
New Botanical Description of Andean Woody Bamboo
ENG: Last year a new paper about an Andean woody bamboo was published by Bolivian and Brazilian botanists Iván Jiménez-Pérez and Ronaldo Vinícius-Silva. This is the botanical description of Merostachys nigricans, one of the Andean woody species of the Merostachys genus that is used in panpipe making, known under the Aymara name of kjirki chhalla (the other […]
Musiñu Workshop with Ignacio Quispe
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 […]
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 the MUSEF team for having invited me to publish a paper on The Sound […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 