Every Friday night during 3 seasons per year, you can find a peaceful musical space in a charming colonial building in Bogota’s oldest and most gorgeous neighbourhood La Candelaria. There you’ll find people wanting to listen to, and appreciate music. And all of you will probably experience cool, innovative electronic music by (mostly) Colombian and (some) international artists. That space is called CONECTADOS (CONNECTED).
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Diana Yanive Torres, Director of Fundacion Cultural Arca in Bogota, explains here what the Fundacion’s CONECTADOS project is all about:
CONECTADOS (‘CONNECTED’) is an electronic music program that facilitates through live concerts, artistic exchanges and creative workshops, an opening for Colombian artists to develop and share their distinct and diverse electronic music projects drawn from synthesizers, sequencers, computers and other digital tools.
The program was created by Daniel Casas C (Colombian journalist and music critic) and Fundacion Cultural Arca (Cultural Ark Foundation) in August 2010, in association with Bogota’s Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (‘FUGA’).
The CONECTADOS concert series are open to the public and free. They are presented 3 seasons per year at the Escenario Muelle de la Alzate (FUGA) (Calle 10 # 3-16). During the season the concerts run every Friday from 6.00 to 7.00 pm.
CONECTADOS orientates the public to the electronic music genre and its various sub-genres. The program provides an exchange space for the many diverse participating Colombian and international electronic music artists.
So far CONECTADOS has run 9 seasons running for 2 months each, showcasing a total of more than 70 artists.
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- Mitu
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- Tomas Jaramillo
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- Tokai
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- Richard Blair
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- Purple Zippers
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- Mia Hush
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- Luis de Palma
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- DJ Galleta Caliente
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- Federico Goes
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- Dj Diego Mystick
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- Binarius Buxus
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- Arcadia
Between 2012 and 2013 CONECTADOS formalised an exchange between Canadian and Colombian artists through Quebec’s International Youth Offices (www.lojiq.org). This initiative allowed Fundacion Cultural Arca to establish cooperative procedures with other foreign cultural organisations – helping CONECTADOS to continue growing as a cooperative cultural exchange project for empirical artists and electronic music professionals – and continue facilitating the creation and expansion of their activities.
For more CONECTADOS information:
http://conectadosmusicaelectronica.blogspot.com/
direccion@fundacionculturalarca.org / casascd@gmail.com
For a few words from Diana about electronic fusion music check out the Fusion Music page.
