“Temple”´s pieces were created in an untimely way as a reaction to the changes of light, rain, cold, wind, fire or birds between 2022 and 2023. “Temple” is the name, in the tradition of the music of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina (where I live and where these recordings were made) to the different tunings of the guitar used to play estilos, milongas, triunfos, etc. Atahualpa Yupanqui tells about the tradition of tuning down some of the guitar's strings at night and throwing a poncho over it so that it rests, so that it does not sing. I got used to doing the same, so in many of these pieces the guitar was with some new ‘temple’, which was a new path, a new window. A new way to travel through the old paths. As Yupanqui himself says: “Turn into new what is old to see the world changed”.
Hernán Vives. Buenos Aires, October 2024.
Hernán Vives (Buenos Aires 1968) is an improviser, composer and performer of plucked string instruments. For more than 30 years he has been working in the fields of contemporary art and music and the recreation of early music, exploring deeply the relationship between the two. His works often incorporate poetry and a combination of texts and images. All of his work is based on cultural anthropophagy.
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