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BLOG 6 - VARIATIONS TO MY STUDIE PROGRAMME

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  This is my last year at the university, and I am so very happy because finally I will finish my career, after long 8 years. The curriculum of my career, “musical composition”, include to many subjects such as: musical analysis, orchestration, counterpoint, harmony, theory and voice practice (solfeo), history of music, electroacoustic music, musical literature, esthetic, investigation, and obviously composition among others. The workload never was a problem for me, because I always loved work hard, and the hours that I invested in the academy was something gratifying for me. The length of studies, seven years, is divided in two degrees: the first four years for the basic stage, and the last three years for the advanced stage (this year it made a curricular change, in which they joined basic stage and superior stage. One of the reasons is so that those of basic stage have the same benefits as those of advanced stage). The buildings and infrastructure of the conservatory it could be...
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BLOG 1 - A country I would like to visit.

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  In 2022 I would like to go to Germany, Leipzig. My purpose is mainly to travel to make my Magister. But on my past birthday my mother gave me a present: a trip to Berlin. So that the next year I will travel just for tourism, but in 2022 certainly I will travel for studies. Deustschland is my fauvorite country in the world. I love his culture: this beatifull country have the most important philosophers, a long tradition in music, a broad language and complex grammar;  his people, and the way who they are.  One of my most important goals is to study "Musical Composition" at the University for music and theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, in Leipzig, with the composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. That is my first reason why I want to go to Germany. But I would not only like to study there, but also to travel, to know people, maybe to live or to married. My spirit and my aesthetic project are totally inspired by German culture.
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Blog 5 - Drugs!

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  I would like to talk about the question: “What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?”. Personally, I think that our country isn´t prepared for an eventual legalization of marijuana or any kind of drugs. Chilean people don’t have the culture or the intelligence to consume drugs. At first, here in Chile exist people who don’t know what are the consequences of consuming drugs. The vast majority consume drugs just for fun. What I am saying is that the drugs should be to have an existential and deeply experience with ourselves. To give you an example, I will tell you a little history that I lived when I traveled to the wonderful south of Chile since a few years with my brother. I must admit that I have tried different drugs. But the drug I've enjoyed the most was LSD. As I was saying, in my travel with my brother to south of Chile, we consumed LSD. As my brother and I have always been very philosophical and deeper with our thinks, the experience with the LSD was ...
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Blog 4 - My future job?

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The job future for composers is arguably the hardest. Unlike musical performers, composers dont have permanent jobs in orchestras and are ignored by the culture. A large part of composers ends up teaching at universities. In my case, I have plans to do assistantships, private classes and classes in schools next year. In 2022 I will do my master's degree in composition at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Leipzig, Deutschland", by the composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. I don't really know what will happen with my future when I'm studying in Germany. Maybe I'll stay there to live, maybe I'll never go back to Chile. The truth is that I dont lose the desire to live from composition and do classes in universities in southern Chile, which need teachers of learned this type of music. In short, for me its not an issue, nor does it ask what my work will be in the future, my head does not give for this type of reflections. I'm also...
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Blog 3 - Der Himmel über Berlin

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Today I would like to talk to you about one of my favorite movies: Der Himmel über Berlin. His name in English is: Wings of desire. It was directed by renowned German director Wim Wenders. The film tells the story of two invisible angels that accompany and comfort humans. It is a very deep philosophical film, which deals with the fundamental questions of the human being: Who are we? Where we come from? What happens to us after death? We are separated by walls of words that separates us from feeling our true feelings and expressing them shamelessly. Two angels (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) watch the world, especially Berlin. They cannot change men's lives or make themselves known; they can only make them want to live and try to comfort them in their moments of pain. The desire to be part of mortal life is so great in one of them that he is even prepared to sacrifice his immortality for him. In addition to being a declaration of love for humanity, the film is a confrontation with the ...
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Blog 2 - My last concert was my last premiere

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  in january of this year I went to my last concert. It was the “contemporary music festival of the university of chile”. There was the premiere of my work for piano and voice: 7 temples (seven moods). Other composers also presented, some with a lot of experience, other students. My work was the first to present and lasted 25 minutes. It was a very long time! But the twenty minutes almost hardly felt. Each musical peace of this work evoked different moods. For example, the first peace evoked expectation, the second piece fear and tension, the third piece homesickness, the fourth piece irony, the fifth piece temperance, the sixth piece anxiety and the last piece rage. Afterwards some commented their appreciations. They told me that my work made a great impression on them and they felt identified with “the moods” that were suggested. It was really an existential experience to all of them. I remember the last compass where Carolina (soprano singer) screamed euphorically with all her s...
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Blog 1 - My work: "Quartet from the distances" for string quartet

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In times of isolation and social distance, the music opens itself like a magnificent window chance to access with our greetings, sentiments, to all of what we sense merely in our everyday life. Opening our ears towards inside to what evokes us to art and what belongs to us, Due to the sanitary emergency and social-psycho which are going through brings about an impulse of me to create a work "fragmented" that's to say composed from diverse gestures all different and unique, as regards to the sound. The idea the composed based on "fragments" comes up due to lock down days. Not only exists a "social distancing", but also lingers the phenomenon of "emotional distancing". In these days quarantine dialog in our spirits moods as the tedious, the anxiety, or rage. Nevertheless, if we look at the phenomenon of "pandemic" from a deep vision as whole, we realize that it's an opportunity – and not necessarily a disease – to meet with oursel...
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