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Recital tour August–September 2024. This recording is from Mississippi State University, September 10.

Ichyhytansuca for Oboe & Live Electronics (2021)
Julián Brijaldo
Bogotá is the city of many, but the home of few. Its cold and heavy rainstorms, for the few of us who have called it home, induce a calm, meditative state where the sound of raindrops on the pavement isolate us from the turmoil and noises of its fast-paced chaotic life. This association, I am aware, is not shared by many. For those who have moved there for work, for those who have fled there escaping violence, and students from other regions working towards a degree in their desired field, the drastic weather of ‘the fridge,’ as it is commonly called, is an unsettling reminder of the lives they’ve left behind. Ichyhytansuca, in the Muisca tongue once spoken by different tribes that lived in the region, means “getting soaked in the rain.” The piece navigates in and out of a meditative state, where fear, anxiety and anger run interference, representing the struggle between home and exile, optimism and nostalgia that lives inside migrant populations in the city I once called my own.
—Julián Brijaldo