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 […]
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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 […]
New Publication in Contrapunto 3(3) 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 […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 