UCE SOUNDS. A STUDY IN PRECOLOMBINUM SOUNDS INSTRUMENTS BELONGING TO THE NORTHERN ANDES

Abstract

Due to the limited access to millenary sounds built in the northern Andes, with the intention of creating a repository that can be shared and bequeathed, Sounds UCE become the result of the study on sound pieces, engineering, capabilities and inventiveness existing in the Archaeological heritage of the Antonio Santiana´s Anthropological Museum at the Central University of Ecuador. In this study, it is the instruments that show the information sought through its design, configuration, ergonomics and use marks. At the same time, the interpretation of these instruments is observed by several musicians belonging to various peoples and nationalities of Ecuador with their own conceptions and worldviews, in an attempt to represent multicultural issues existing in the populations inheriting this wisdom, obtaining innovative results, both in the execution and in the understanding of construction techniques in sound artifacts. Before a very wide universe of sound instruments, a classification has been developed according to the function for which each object is considered to be constructed, through the description of representative pieces of each branch. Some interpretation techniques are included with the intention of laying the foundations for future appreciations and experiences in the study of the pre-Hispanic sound sky.