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The Argentine musician Adolfo Reisin and the aesthetics of collective improvisation

Authors

Daniel Moro Vallina University of Oviedo, Art History and Musicology Department https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-8265

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v21.69159

Keywords:

Argentinian music, improvisation, theatre, body expression, musical pedagogy

Abstract

This article presents an approach to the figure of the Argentine musician Adolfo Reisin (1936-2020), still unknown to the general public and the musicological community. Firstly, Reisin’s work for theatre in Argentina in the 1960s is explored, where he was part of the Teatro de los Independientes. The main international figures that influenced his aesthetics (Pierre Schaeffer, Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis, among others) and how Reisin evolved towards the practice of collective free improvisation are analysed below. Reisin’s main contribution in this area was the so-called “corporal-gestural solfeggio”, which is explained combining the analysis of archival sources, recordings and personal interviews with the author.

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Author Biography

Daniel Moro Vallina, University of Oviedo, Art History and Musicology Department

Daniel Moro Vallina has a PhD in musicology from the University of Oviedo (cum laude, international mention) and a degree in piano from the Conservatory of Music of the Principality of Asturias. His doctoral thesis, dedicated to the Basque composer Carmelo Bernaola, was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize from the University of Oviedo and the Orfeón Donostiarra-UPV / EHU Prize for Musical Research. It has been published as a monograph by the University of the Basque Country, in its Arte.Textos collection ("El compositor Carmelo Bernaola (1929-2002). Una trayectoria en la vanguardia musical española", 2019). His works include several papers on various aspects of contemporary Spanish and Latin American music, published in national and international journals such as Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana, Il Saggiatore Musicale, Revista de Musicología de la SEDEM, Perspectives of New Music, Revista Musical Chilena and Anuario Musical, among others. His next publication will be a book dedicated to the composer Miguel Ángel Coria, co-authored with Ángel Medina (2021, in press). He has been a professor at the International University of La Rioja between 2015 and 2020 and is currently an assistant professor linked to the Department of Art History and Musicology at the University of Oviedo. Director of the Libargo Ediciones Críticas collection (Granada), responsible for the Teaching Innovation Project "Discriminaciones de género en el consumo y difusión de la música" (University of Oviedo, in progress) and member of four Research Projects on relationships and Contemporary musical exchanges between Spain and Latin America, financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain.

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Published

2021-08-20

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How to Cite

MORO VALLINA, D. The Argentine musician Adolfo Reisin and the aesthetics of collective improvisation. MUSICA HODIE, Goiânia, v. 21, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/mh.v21.69159. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/musica/article/view/69159. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.