An Artist Facing Science

Classical music and expressive moves on the floor are what I first sensed when I entered Ana

Craig's room. She is prepairing herself for a corporal expression presentation and now her high

school time lies far behind in her memory.As i ask her, she tries to remember those hard times,

but she doesn't stop her dance and asks me to repeat my questions.



Ana Craig who is in fact my sister, wasn't sure of being interviewed, but as I insisted

she gave in and we got started. She confessed that her wort memories lie in school times, but she

did have something for me. Ana graduated in 2002 from Saint Patrick's school where seh took part

of the Junior Achievement project which that year consisted in making chutney.the whole group was

to produce it at home and try to sell it, and that's what the actually did! "It was hard work,

here at home with mountains of fruit to cook" she adds.



Her life nowadays is quite different. She told me that after her practice she had to go to

a flute lesson in her music school which would hopofully take her to another concert such as the

one she has already had with Ensemble Tornasol a few months ago in the Alberdi Theater. Since her

first yeras she has spent a lot of her time playing the recorder (plastic little flute) and

that's where her flute abilities come from. Her art classes inspired her to do more and expand

the limits of her imagination, but her path started to change course when science got in her

head. Her will to get to know bacteriaand different uses of substances pushed her to major in

Biotechnology. She is actually working on her final thesis at the moment.



Now that she has hot her hobbie, music, art and career, her goal is to become a good flute

player, which she hopes will take her travelling around the world performing infront of huge

crowds. She hopes to get a job after finishing her studies and then form a family.

Music Revolution In the 20th Century

Mau by Mauro Meloni
Sources: wikipedia.org

Music Revolution In The 20^th Century.

When it all started 50 years ago , teenagers just didn’t have a music that represented them, young people were obliged to listen to listen music their parents listened, because at that time there wasn’t any musician band or singer that would do music for young people. That’s when rock ’n roll appeared and when they started feeling identified with a type of music.

Nowadays, music we can listen to in some way is related to the one that

started more than 50 years ago. This apparently long period of time can also show us how it has changed. Fifty Years seem to be a lot but if you compare it to the rest of history you’ll see it’s not that much. So, music had a very important change in its own history in a very short period of time. But why? I personally think that is because teenagers were given the chance to make music and to express their feelings.

The reason why I think teenagers didn’t have this opportunity of making music is that parents are very concerned about what their children listen

and see , and besides this in those times the education was very strict . It was a revolution from teenagers because it became popular, and had its consequences over a long period of time. At first it was rejected by older people but now that the rock n’ roll generation is older this type of music is much more accepted in the society.

Before this, teenagers just had to learn or listen to country or folklore. But now we have some universal types of music that are listened all around the world. That’s the case of rock,

for example. It has it origins in a mixture of blues, rhythm and blues and gospel. This capacity

to fusion music, I think should be attributed to young people because of the natural

creativity that they have, that generally adults don’t have. And also they gave a different point of view to analyze and feel reality; this made music much richer than it was before this

revolution.

Genres of music have evolved and, because of the influence of other genres, we now we have a

huge variety of them (pop rock, blues rock, folk rock, etc).Another cause of it is the radio which

gained popularity and gave musicians the possibility to be listened nationwide and sometimes

worldwide; and also listeners were able to listen to a wider range of music than before. So this

helped musicians a lot to be influenced by different types of music.

So, to sum up, what we can listen to nowadays is the result of a mixture of a fusion of different genres and technology, which made music to be known everywhere and by everyone, and what’s more important, to have a richer and larger variety of styles.

Tucuman’s Heavy Piece

Heavy Metal: A loud and harsh, noisy music style, strong beated, usually with strong and shouted lyrics involving violence or fantastic imagination.

“And they heard the hard voice screaming like thunder, and so they knew, heavy metal was alive”.

People in Tucumán have different interests when speaking about music…some just listen to the most popular Tucumán music called: Cumbia or Folklore, while some actually get to listen Brutal Death Metal (a heavier genre derived from Heavy Meta)l. While walking on the streets, you may get to see lots of different styles, such as: Emos, who listen to a so called Sentimental Punk, the real Punk Rockers, who, of course listen to Punk Rock, and the ones I’m most interested in talking about: Metalheads, who blow up their minds with Heavy Metal.

Heavy Metal, since its birth date, in the middle of the twentieth century, has been criticised, pre-judged and thought of it as the Devils work, has actually become very popular among teenagers, and there are also adults who still listen to it.Unlike Punk Rock, which some people believe, died some time ago, Heavy Metal keeps bringing up new groundbreaking bands, songs, artists, and new albums that inspire the “heavy”community.

Here in Tucumán this music has never been as popular as it is today. People are really getting into it, and by forming new bands they are promoting the movement. Nowadays, you will see artists handing out flyers in the streets inviting you to their show. And so that the style doesn’t die they invite other bands to make them grow into fame. Theres a very clear image of companionship between the “metalheads”. This weekend, for example, Tucuman’s Metal Fest 2 (image on right side) is taking place, were local bands, and from other provinces will play a 2 day long concert for the fans of the style.

A few weeks ago, the most important Argentinian rock concert, Quilmes Rock, took place, not in Tucumán, but in Buenos Aires. Nevertheless a lot of Tucumán teenagers, and also adults have actually attended the show. This concert is so famous and important because of international bands coming to play for us. This year some of them were: Iron Maiden (Heavy Metal), Radiohead (Experimental, Post Metal, Rock), Kiss (Rock and Roll, Metal), and many others. But as I said before, local bands are also invited to aquire more fame among the Argentinian community.

For example, if a famous Power Metal, such as Sonata Arctica, or Stratovarius (both finnish bands) is playing, as lots of people are going to see it, local bands who want to be better known, will ask the famous one if they can play before them. And so, the band gets to perform infront of hundreds of people. Schools which indentify this style among their students, organize shows, or special days in which they sometimes invite famous bands in Tucumán, and the entrance fee won’t be as high as it would be in a regular concert. So, more people will attend, and the cycle just goes on and on. As we can see, people who actually like this music, want to get famous, and want to have an audience and in most cases become famous as their favourite bands. They do care about it all, and try to do something to get up high in the charts.

In my opinion, Heavy Metal is real music. It’s not just noise just as some people may say. This music style is very creative and it can also be aggressive. Artists actually put a lot of emotion in their music and lyrics. I believe that to be able to understand it you have to listen to it. People who pre-judge it and say that Heavy Metal is dead, or that actually it’s not good at all, are definetely ignorant about their life surroundings, and sometimes, their own culture. I think, unless they know about what they are talking about, keep their mouths shut and criticise what they actually know about. I got into Heavy Metal a few years ago and love it since then. I chose to play the keyboard which I will be playing soon with my band! The latest news of the style here in Tucumán talk about a new wave of Heavy Metal women bands that has hit Tucuman in the past few years. Girls now go solo or form a full women band showing their talent to the boys who think they are not talented. Some bands which have now aquired some fame, are for example, Shells, Pan Duro, Las Gomas De Eva, or Lima Limón. And for the fact that they are metalheads, they keep the so common Heavy Metal Step Off! (or in some cases, more agressive, F*** You) attitude. They assure they’ll keep on working on their stuff and show to the world they can do as well as anybody else. Girls keep their feminism even in this manly and violent style.

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (colour)

I leave you with a song of one of the greatest bands of all history.
The song can be interpreted in many ways, but for me it describes how you cannot live in strawberry fields forever, there is a reality out there that we must confront and though it is not easy, it is manageable. Escaping life is not a solution to our problems.

THE BEATLES lyrics - "Strawberry Fields Forever"
(Lennon/McCartney)

Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

Always, no sometimes, think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever

[Cranberry sauce...]

Iván Noble in Tucumán ·· Santa Rosa School Week 2007

Friday, August 24th, excitement around. Vale Marún, Anto and Chechu came home to have lunch – pizza!! – and we went to the Campus of Santa Rosa School. We arrived at 22:15 and presentators were starting. The winners of the different sports showed up in the stage and Elephant Sexual Chocolate, the band of a friend of us, started the night. Some changes had to be made in the band, as the singer left, so Rodri is the new singer – and he does it really well. Energy grew incredibly in the crowd and we had to wait with all our excitement while watching the video of the class. The presenters again to stage and seconds later, the ex singer of Caballeros de la Quema was being deafened with applauses and shouts.

Iván Noble started singing at 23:20. Blue jeans, a black t-shirt with some red drawings, his curly hair not as long as he used to have it. He has been up in stage for an hour and a half in a very enjoyable and full of energy show. I really don’t know how many people was there, but it was a very good audience: enthusiastic, noisy, knew most of the lyrics, sung, jumped, and didn’t make any disturbance. A small “pogo” showed up in some of the songs, with boys and girls who jumped and sung, but didn’t bother much the ones around. The night went on with some old songs and classics of the Caballeros de la Quema, like “Oxidado”, “Un minuto antes de dejar de quererte” and “Sapo de otro pozo”, as well as new ones like “Olivia”, and “Bienbenito” – dedicated to his son. The crowd was calm in order to problems that could have appeared, and there were young people and adults bringing back some memories too. Iván and his band got off the stage twenty minutes before 1 am not having sung Avanti morocha. After a lot of noise, applauses, whistling and shouting, they came back again and ended the show with their most famous song.

This was the moment when I had to leave everything there. Iván Noble is one of the few national artists I really like, so it was an unique oportunity. ValeMé lifted me on her shoulders and I sung more than half of the song up there, at the same level of Iván. He looked at me while I sung with my hands up in the air and he smiled at me!! I felt so crazy up there... but it was an incredible sensation! Thank you so much Vale!! I shouted, I sung, I jumped, I enjoyed and I met him!

It was a really great show.

Rodrigo Posse ·· Elephant Sexual Chocolate

Iván Noble

Un minuto antes de dejar de quererte:

Sapo de otro pozo:

Oxidado:

Avanti Morocha:

enjOy some goOd mUsic * * *

• Every me and every you - Placebo
• Hold on - Green Day
• London Calling - The Clash
• Do you wanna dance - Ramones
• Bob - Nofx
• The show must go on - Queen
• Follow me - Paul Mccartney
• While my guitar gently weeps - The Beatles
• BOOM - System of a Down
• In This together - Apoptygma Berzerk
• Seize the day - Avenged sevenfold
• We're all too blame - Sum 41
• Mi Alma - Smitten
• Romero el madero - Ska-p
• So happy together - New found Glory
• Fairytale of New York - No use for a name
• Come as your are - Nirvana
• Fly - Nickleback
• Cristalena - Mxpx
• Time is running out - Muse
• What I've done - Linkin Park
• Love like winter - AFI
• Little know it all - Iggy Pop
• Run - Collective Soul
• American Jesus - Bad religion
• Hey ! Hey ! - Ataque 77
• Poetically pathetic - Amber Pacific
• When your heart stop beating - +44
• Here without you - 3 doors down