Guillermo Galindo

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Guillermo Galindo (* 1960 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican sound artist and composer .

life and work

From 1985 Guillermo Galindo studied composition at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City and obtained a bachelor's degree in composition and graphic design in 1987 . In 1989 he graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a bachelor's degree in film music and composition . The Masters in Composition and Electronic Music followed in 1991 at Mills College in Oakland, California. From 1995 to 1997 he studied Indian music at the Ali Akbar College of Music . Galindo taught at the California College of the Arts , among others .

“In Mesoamerica , musical instruments are traditionally used as talismans for the transition from one world to another. “From the perspective of Mesoamerican cultures,” explains Galindo, “personal objects and the sounds they create are part of our life journey on this planet”. His own instruments are just such talismans, but for a different journey: not from one world to another, but from one state to another. The music they create breathes life into things left behind. The Latin reliquiae means “leftover”, mostly those that are worshiped. “When I build instruments,” says Galindo, “I don't strive for the perfect or most beautiful sound. The materials should be able to sing in their own voices "- a very special kind of cultic veneration."

- Guillermo Galindo

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery showed Along the Border . Instruments made from objects that Galindo and the photographer Richard Misrach collected on a trip along the border between the USA and Mexico (2012 to 2014) were exhibited there. Works from the Border Cantos series, which began in 2009, were on view at documenta 14 in Kassel.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kronos Quartet Guillermo Galindo , accessed on June 2, 2019. (English)
  2. ↑ Magazzino Guillermo Galindo , accessed June 2, 2019. (Italian)
  3. ↑ documenta 14, daybook Guillermo Galindo , accessed on June 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Along the Border , accessed June 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Galindo, Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican sound artist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city