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Freedom to create.
Discipline:Film/Video – experimental
Eduardo Aguilar
Discipline:Film/Video – experimental
Region:Ocotlan de Morelos, Oaxaca, MEXICO
MacDowell Fellowships:2023
Eduardo Ángel Aguilar Vásquez is a composer whose music can be “found beyond sound.”
At MacDowell, Aguilar investigated the possibilities of one of his earliest compositions to re-exist as a new audiovisual work. He reflected on the means and modes that the piece might share its natural origin with the most stigmatized Mexican music and rural environments. He investigated his creative process by elaborating on the concepts of memory, idea, imagination, perception, representation, thought, design, and reality.
Studios
MacDowell
Eduardo Aguilar worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built
in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in
recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music
students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed
walls were intended to be soundproof.
Like
many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s
when the program began welcoming…
