Sawutanaka (tejidos rebeldes II) fue compuesta expresamente para la OEIN.
Busca explorar las ricas sonoridades y posibilidades expresivas del instrumental altiplánico: sikus, mohoceños, charangos y percusiones tradicionales. Sawutanaka (tejidos en lengua aimara) es la metáfora de la cual nacen las dinámicas musicales de la pieza. Sin embargo, no se trata de una “imagen” idealizada, de vitrina o folclórica, sino de un tejido en movimiento, dinámico, en transformación, que nace de las contradicciones y dualidades que implica “estar” en esta realidad latinoamericana (en este caso, específicamente andina), que ha sido
(y sigue siendo) producto de la violencia, de la mutilación, de las yuxtaposiciones y superposiciones de visiones del mundo, de valores, de anhelos, de formas de ser...Así, no se trata de simples tejidos, son “tejidos rebeldes” porque a pesar de todo, siguen estando como testimonio vivo de su propia necesidad de ser. (Alejandro Cardona)

Dirección: Cergio Prudencio
Grabación: Radio ORF (Austria)

Sawutanaka (Tejidos Rebeldes II) (2011) Alejandro Cardona

yllu (2021)was composed for the Chamber Ensemble of Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos and the Basel Sinfonietta. Premiered in October 2021 at the Stadtcasino Basel within the CULTURESCAPES festival in Switzerland.

The title yllu was taken from the text by José María Arguedas:
The Quechua word ending yllu is an onomatopoeia. Yllu represents in one of its forms the music produced by little wings in flight; inexplicable music arising from the movement of slight objects. This voice is similar to another more important: illa. Illa names a certain species of light and the monsters that were born wounded by the rays of the moon. Illa is a two-headed child or a calf that is born decapitated; or a giant rock, all black and lucid, whose surface appears crossed by a wide vein of white rock, of opaque light; illa is also a cob whose rows of corn intersect or form whirlpools; Illas are the mythical bulls that inhabit the bottom of the lonely lakes, of the high lagoons surrounded by totora, populated by black ducks. All illas cause good or evil, but always to the highest degree. Touching an illa, and dying or reaching the resurrection, is possible. This voice illa has some, phonetic kinship and an internal community of meaning with the ending of the word yllu.
Los Ríos Profundos (1958)

Sawutanaka (Tejidos Rebeldes II) (2011) Alejandro Cardona

OEIN Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos

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