Projects

Alejandro Brittes has received authorization from the Ministry of Culture of Brazil – MinC to receive fiscal incentives through the Rouanet Law to receive funds for the realization of tours outside of Brazil. The country chosen for this tour, as a trio, is the United States. The tour will commence in August 2024 and end in October of the same year, and it will occur in the states of New Mexico, Arizona, California, etc.

There will be concerts at festivals such as: San José Jazz Festival (CA), Cotati Accordion Festival (CA), etc. Companies can associate their brand with this cultural initiative and be benefited by brand placement and offer their collaborators and community a spectacular outcome.

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Book – González System The desire to have print material about the González accordion system has accompanied me for more than thirty years, as an accordionist and disciple of that system. I remember when I began to study this technique with the professor Nini Flores before his departure for France, and how much it was needed to for me to have a “manual” in my hands to be able to continue progressing with the instrument. 

Although I had studied with the greatest icon of this accordion system, innumerable challenges accompanied me, and continue to accompany me, in my path as a musician.All of these challenges arose because of the fact that the González system is relatively new, and transmitted orally, and does not possess a bibliography that could orient a serious study of this mechanism. For these reasons, I created a book with the simple motivation to collaborate and help facilitate the understanding of the logic and fingering of this system. 

Todos estes desafios se deram pelo fato que o sistema Gonzaléz é jovem, de transmissão oral, não possui uma bibliografia que oriente ao estudo deste mecanismo.Em virtude destes fatores elaborei este livro no pleno intuito de colaborar e ajudar a facilitar o entendimento da logica e digitação do mesmo.

Alejandro has researched about Chamamé for almost twenty years, in reality, we also asked innumerable questions about this rhythm which were compiled into a book. Alejandro co-authored the book with historian and cultural producer Magali de Rossi, together, one with experience of having had lived and shared conversations and hearty laughs with important names of Chamamé´s old guard and the other with an academic preparation to develop the subject in a theoretical manner.

Both present a challenge to readers to think of borders not only as geopolitical demarcations, but rather malleable spaces with the cultural realm, Conceiving of music as a long process, playing a particular role in the Social Imaginary and in Collective Memory. The book indicates paths to begin to reveal more about Chamamé and its rituality.

For the authors, music, dance, rituals and cosmogony are influenced, engage in dialogue and respond to gaps, even in a fashion imperceptible to our eyes, all these cultural expressions and human behaviors give a people their identity, they fulfill a metaphysical function and they take us beyond what is presented by science. Perhaps that is why Chamamé is one of the few rhythms that brings with it the peculiar motivation to question: Where did all this come from? Why are we this way? What stories does this rhythm have to teach us?

Project supported by the Edital diversidades das culturas – Fundação Marcopolo e Secretaria da Cultura do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – Lei Aldir Blanc.