Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played an important role in this process. As part of the interdisciplinary approach it had embraced since its very early days, the CAYC encouraged the pursuit of experimental practices, appropriating various creative ideas that had emerged in Argentina during the 1960s.
In 1969, with its first exhibition, Arte y Cibernética, the CAYC established its experimental credentials, which were in line with initiatives that had been presented on the international stage. The center hoped that this exhibition at the Galería Bonino in Buenos Aires would show what the new technologies could do for creative activity. The seminar’s curatorial plan therefore included electronic music composed by Dante Grela, Francisco Kröpfl, Carlos Rausch, Jorge Rotter, and Eduardo Tejeda. The center’s intention to blend disciplines was on display again in Argentina-Intermedios (Teatro Ópera, Buenos Aires, 1969), a show that included electronic music, stage arts, experimental films, and kinetic sculptures.
This newsletter invites readers to a concert of Latin American electronic music, which will include five works composed by noted Latin Americans: Mesías Maiguashka (b. 1938), Enrique Pinilla (1927–1989), Gabriel Brncic (b. 1942), Alcides Lanza (1929–2024), and Ariel Martínez (1940–2019). Most participants had had a grant from the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM), the Latin American Center for Advanced Music Studies that had been created at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. The CLAEM, under the direction of the famous scholar and composer Alberto Ginastera, was to be the most avant-garde musical training institution in Latin America.
This event, which was staged as part of the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano (GT- 133; doc. no. 1476312, GT-143; doc. no. 1478009) at the CAYC, presented an overview of the region’s electronic music and internationally known composers that—along with other concerts and musical productions that were essential components of the exhibitions (GT-9; doc. no. 1478580, GT-11; doc. no. pending, GT-15; doc. no. 1476277, GT-130; doc. no. 1478768, GT-161; doc. no. 1478696, GT-162; doc. no. 1478697)—helped to burnish the center’s experimental image.
