Paisaje sonoro en Guayaquil. Investigación y práctica artística desde tres casos de estudio de la Universidad de las Artes, Ecuador.

Abstract

It’s notorious number of universities that have opened a career in music production has grown in recent years. However, the teaching of this profession has not been limited to the use of recording technology for artists of song or sound design; gradually, the creators who live in Guayaquil (Ecuador) have explored a particular line: the soundscape as raw material or axis of an artistic work since the founding of the University of the Arts in the city. Since then, the concept of interdisciplinarity has made sense in music producers who transgress the tradition of the discipline and propose sound creation alternatives based on installations, video art, performance or conceptual works, artistic practice is carried out from multiple artistic languages in which it is linked the audio. The present work explores these trends through three exponents who, coming from a transdisciplinary artistic education, have worked with the soundscape of the city; their proposals come together in various techniques, such as sonic representation exercises, conventional recordings, real-time processing, programming, and facilities.