El Pastiche is a hybrid music and moving image project, crossing electronic with folkloric, for a danceable mash-up performance led by sound artist Juan Sorrentino (Buenos Aires). Sorrentino collages varied sources such as pop music, advertising jingles, found sounds and experimental music with composed melodies drawing from cumbia, noise, techno, folkloric Chamame (music from the northern state of Chaco, Argentina) and live vocals. Performing in character as a stereotypical Latin gangster, Sorrentino creates an aural and visual cocktail experience referencing traditions of the lesser-known Latin American sub-culture of his hometown. The result is a kind of remix cacophony - danceable, energetic rhythms concocted from nuanced layers of pop-culture, political and historical references.


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