Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Diego Luzuriaga, Sarapangas como vos, 1987
(Ecuador)



Recording time: 5 min 30 s.
Instruments: For synthesizer, sequencer, Andean flute, percussion, and sound effects.
Recorded at: Quito, Ecuador.
Remarks: Julio Bueno, sound; Pablo Valarezo, AtaulfoTobar, Edmundo Vizuete and Nelson Cadena, percussion; Diego Luzuriaga, flute and synthesizers.

Other resources available:
- About Diego Luzuriaga
- Compositions by Diego Luzuriaga

About this composition:

Sarapangas como vos, for synthesizer, sequencer, Andean flute, percussion, and sound effects.

I composed this piece in Quito, in 1987, and was premiered on June-30-1987 at the Auditorio del Colegio de Arquitectos de Quito, with Julio Bueno, sound; Pablo Valarezo, AtaulfoTobar, Edmundo Vizuete and Nelson Cadena, percussion; and myself playing the flute and synthesizers.

The piece is based on a two-bar pentatonic theme taken from the celebrations of the summer solstice in the province of Imbabura, that I heard sung with this lyrics: "Ay! Sarapangas como Vos , Ay! onde quiera he d'encontrar". The theme is repeated many times, with different timbres and simple transpositions, creating a tapestry that reminds me of the actual tapestry typical of the Otavalo Indians from that province of Ecuador.

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