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 always encouraged, the CAYC promoted experimental practices, appropriating a variety of examples of Argentine art from the 1960s.
The center’s musical events usually consisted of electronic or electro-acoustic music since these styles were focused on experimenting at the intersection between art and technology, which was one of the CAYC’s main interests in its early years. In 1969, the exhibition Arte y Cibernética (Art and Cybernetics), at the Galería Bonino in Buenos Aires, included electronic music composed by Dante Grela, Francisco Kröpfl, Carlos Rausch, Jorge Rotter, and Eduardo Tejeda.
The center’s plan to combine disciplines began with Argentina-Intermedios (Teatro Ópera, Buenos Aires, 1969), a show that included electronic music, performing arts, experimental films, and Kinetic sculptures. During these events, in its early days, the center provided spaces for reflection, training, and concerts devoted to the music being created in Latin America at the time (GT-152-152-I; doc. no. 1478806">1478806). A concert of experimental music was also presented during the exhibition Arte de sistemas II (GT161; doc. no. 1478696, GT-162; doc. no. 1478697).
Most of the musicians who performed at the center’s events 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 Alberto Ginastera, was created to be the leading avant-garde school of music in Latin America (GT-9; doc. no. pending, GT-11; doc. no. pending, GT-15; doc. no. 1476277, GT-130; doc. no. 1478768, GT-137; doc. no. 1478778, GT-152-152-I; doc. no. 1478806">1478806, GT-505; doc. no. pending, GT-506; doc. no. pending).
This newsletter announces the opening of Expo Música at the CAYC. It was considered a pioneering event that included works, musical pieces, musical scores, and videos produced by the most distinguished Argentine composers of contemporary music at the time. The article provides a list of the equipment used at the event (cassette players, individual headphones, closed-circuit TV videos), and the participating composers, engineers, and companies that supported the event.
The newsletter also announces that the event will subsequently travel to the Universidad de Puerto Rico, in the city of San Juan.
