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La Maquina de picar memorias

from MEMORIAS by Gonzalo Biffarella

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This work was commissioned by the French State through the IMEB (International Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges).

The piece is a tribute to those who have struggled to find and let know the hidden truth of the years of Military Dictatorship in Argentina. At the same time, it constitutes a space of reflection about individual and collective memory, and about memory as both the basis for a kind of learning and the basis for a dialogue which in Argentina is still an unsettled debt.

A society builds its culture through dialogue, dissent and consensus. That dialogue is only possible if we are capable of listening to each other.
30 years ago dialogue in our society was violently broken. The dissident voices were silenced, our social memory was torn and fear was installed in our country.

The piece starts with fragments of some testimonies which I call “memory fragments”. I would like to emphasize the first of them: it is a memory fragment of Sonia Torres, president of Cordoba Province Section of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Association (Mayo Square Grandmothers). She says:

“Thirty years after this incomprehensible genocide, I ask myself : Why weren’t we able to stop this massacre? How come so much cruelty and perversity was possible? Why did we endure, almost in silence, the disappearance of our children and the robbery of our grandchildren…”

I would like to humbly contribute to the effort of so many who have offered much more than me to this cause.

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from MEMORIAS, released April 26, 2021
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Gonzalo Biffarella Argentina

Gonzalo Biffarella is a musician, multimedia artist, university professor and cultural manager. He was born in 1961. He studied composition at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Throughout his career he received numerous distinctions, in his country and abroad. His works have been presented in 30 countries. ... more

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