Cergio Prudencio (CRF 2013) recently published an essay titled “AMTASIÑAWA” in the “Mapping Issue” of Sound American. This issue seeks to elevate “the urgent voices and vital ideas of far-flung musicians and composers, often little known outside of their own native countries. [It] opens our eyes and ears to discovering new possibilities once unchained from our immediate surroundings.” Prudencio’s lyrical essay discusses the concept of experimentalism and his own experience in his composition. Read it here.
“May we all make/take the instruments, empty the innards into them, be still at the beck and call of all that sounds, watch the passage of the banished, bear the inheritance, scatter it, reap the fruits, embed its seed, plow furrow, rain oneself, and wait, wait, wait for the susurrus of the snails, the roar of the sprigs, the rumor of the entrails, the prayer of the minerals, and the song of dawn when it is still dusk.”