The Juan March Foundation launches “Contemporánea”, a podcast of music from the last 75 years, promoted and presented by Bruno Galindo.
The music journalist Bruno Galindo is the promoter, scriptwriter and presenter of Contemporánea, a podcast offered by the Fundación Juan March that brings together the names, stories and places that have played a leading role in the music of the last seventy-five years. Initially planned to last one hundred programmes, Contemporánea began last Wednesday, 29 November, with a ten-minute biographical sketch of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
The following programmes will be broadcast on Sundays and Wednesdays and will end on 8 February 2025, with a portrait of George Crumb. In between, personalities such as Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono, Beatriz Ferreyra, John Zorn or Maryanne Amacher will be featured, with a special focus on Spanish composers such as Francisco Guerrero, Llorenç Barber, Eduardo Polonio, Josep María Mestres Quadreny, Helga Arias, Tomás Marco, María de Alvear, Jesús Rueda, Elena Mendoza, Luis de Pablo or Francisco López and monographs on concepts such as Glitch (to which the programme for tomorrow, Sunday 3 December, is dedicated), Fluxus, Darmstadt, the New Complexity and New Simplicity, spectralism, extended techniques, experimental and ambient music in Spain, free improvisation, granular synthesis, and sound poetry and sound art, among other concepts.