“The otherwise is the disbelief in what is current and a movement towards, and an affirmation of, imagining other modes of social organization, other ways for us to be with each other.”
how do Otherwise practices in bowed strings sound?
do these sound like possibilities for hope, joy, healing, and collective memory making?
These practices preserve and stimulate, using local musics as their testimony, understandings of sound through their people’s identities and territories...
…humans learning to shape their purpose through the diversification of their musicking!
Welcome!
Resuena Abya Yala (RAY, for short) is a virtual hub, inspired by the possibility of other ways of world/music making, as proposed by Crawley. This is a growing website that aims to amplify otherwise practices on bowed string instruments
I use this platform to share my journey towards creating a pedagogy of interconnectedness rooted in el Vivir Sabroso, and to amplify the work of the people who have inspired me and collaborated with me in doing so!
This website reflects part of my journey as a Latin American-mestizo migrant musician in the U.S.A., and draws on my experience as a graduate student living in the Midwest for more than 10 years, and my recent journey as a professor at a University in the Borderlands region of southern Arizona. Thus, this online resource is aimed to become multilingual, to reflect the geographical spaces I have occupied; multimedia, to represent my own understanding of music as a praxis that invites to engaging with multiple senses (not only the ear or sight), and in constant construction; reflecting my ways of moving through the world.
I hope you find this work joyful, useful, and necessary. I certainly do, and appreciate your feedback on it: let’s collaborate in finding more ways this is already being done, and could continue to be done in Abya Yala -a.k.a. the American continent-
-Esteban
Visionaries Ensamble
Colombia
Visionaries emerged as a research collective and performance ensemble based in Bogotá, Colombia. Since 2020, our members have been nurturing virtual and physical spaces where musicians of diverse visual functional abilities can collaborate within an inclusive environment that fosters personal, artistic, and professional fulfillment.
Get in touch with Visionaries:
Bridges MAYO students Aralyn, Silas, Raffi, and Rozlyn in 2021 
Bridges MAYO plays Colombian musics
Bloomington IN (USA) + Colombia
Bridges focuses on bringing together young string players from homeschooled, public, and private educational backgrounds, working to “bridge” the socioeconomic divide through accessible programs.
Get in touch with Bridges MAYO:
Coming up…
Tuluní, Trans People’s Rights
Tolima (COL)+Tucson
Theirstories of resistance: Trans women in Chaparral, Tolima, Colombia, are re-existing (Albán Achinte) through a runway, commemorating victims of transfeminicide in Colombia, and celebrating their beauty in diversity. Laura Fernanda Zúñiga composed the piece Tuluní for solo viola inspired by Trans women’s stories. It has been performed in the USA to great reception, could we connect people in Tucson whose struggles resonate with the Chaparral Diversa LGBTQI+ community through performing Tuluní as an act of resistance and support?
esta viola amable 