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When we mix 2 musical fragments from different cultural contexts, a space of play and exploration opens up: an in-between place where separation and difference can be creatively articulated.
Sacromonte's gettin fuzzy is a remix piece contained in the first Antropoloops album
We work with remix in a contextualized way, placing the music in its cultural, geographical and historical contexts and articulating it in our lives and stories. We use data visualization and collage to highlight our complex identities and cultural interdependence.
Video about the work with musical life stories within the project Sanjomix.
Antropoloops arises from the distributed archive of the web, from the open access to the richness of traditional music. We work from archives and create archives in the projects we develop to put them in motion and use them as a tool for approaching the environment.
Antropoloops second album collage
Musical sources blogs Visualization with their relations
Visualization with the musics selected in the first workshop of the project with Teatre L'Artesà
Collage with the musical sources of kleos Sevilla
While studying architecture in Berlin in the late 90s, Rubén Alonso fantasized about the romantic notion of the ethnomusicologist who collects songs around the world, but the journey would begin years later, and it would be through the distributed archive of the web and from music remixing.
Composing with musical fragments from distant times and places, without changing the tones, and visualizing and opening the process. With this creative approach to ethnomusicology Rubén started the Antropoloops project in 2012, as an experiment between the distanced rehearsals of the music group Las buenas noches, where they shared a fascination for instruments and music from different contexts. After the first two solo albums, Esperanza Moreno incorporated data visualization to open up the remixing process at concerts.
In 2017 we started to think collectively about the possibilities of the creative approach of antropoloops in the educational field, as a tool to value diversity through electronic music.
Since 2018 Fran Torres and Rubén coordinate the educational projects that we have been developing with various institutions in the field of art and education to introduce students to musical creation through remixing, encouraging a creative approach to folklore and sound memory.
Antropoloops emerged looking at the whole world, from the distance that the sound archive allows, to create musical collages from the folklore of different places.
After working at CEIP San José Obrero, a public school in the most culturally diverse neighborhood of Seville, the musical collages began to be loaded with faces, stories and experiences. We began to look at the world from the archive created with the people we worked with: from the classroom, to the school, to the neighborhood, to the city and to the world.
Since then we have developed projects in different places, but we continue to work with one foot in the neighborhood, from the conviction of the need to connect to that place to build in it and from it. As the students of the school used to say: "from Sanjomix to the whole galaxy... "
Antropoloops has been presented live in different contexts and festivals in Spain, Italy, UK, Romania, Slovenia, Germany, USA, Argentina, Chile and Tunisia and has been awarded at the Espiello International Ethnographic Documentary Festival and the Hummus film fest.
We have developed projects and workshops with institutions and entities such as the Fundación Carasso, the Obra social la Caixa, the ICAS Sevilla, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Museo del Prado, the RED PLANEA, the Teatre L'Artesá or the European Commission among others.
