Supported by Casa Venezuela and the Chilean Cultural Center of Arizona I would love to see that.Discover South American music and culture with a Chilean dance workshop, curator talks, an Andean panpipe craft, and upbeat music and dance performances. It will be fun to hear what new sounds appear. I hope that people use it to write not just cinematic music, but to bring it into classical, neoclassical music. We’ve all seen Babel, Brokeback Mountain, the Motorcycle Diaries, and there’s this tendency of using this instrument for landscapes… but it can be brought into so much more. “It’s more than an instrument for the big landscapes. It feels more personal than any other instrument. You know how your story feels immense to you, because you’re the protagonist, but also you realize how miniscule you are, where there’s billions of years and billions and trillions of galaxies and what’s 100 years in that scope? But it’s you and your family that’s everything and this is something that the Ronroco is for me. “But at the same time, it’s individual, small. “I think the Ronroco is a unique instrument that explains the immensity of the world,” Sech tells us. The Ronroco that Sech played for us was custom made by the Argentinian luthier Jonathan Garabello. The lower courses are in unison and the highest are in octaves. It’s crafted with 10 nylon strings in five double courses. The Ronroco is a larger version of the Andean stringed instrument Charango, sharing its fat neck and airy sound. The music was telling part of the story and when I started doing magic, creating these musical numbers to go along, I realized that it would be great if music could do this or that and I didn’t realize there was something in me wanting to be a composer.” David Copperfield had these big musical numbers and I recognized that I was getting the same feeling when I was looking at Back to the Future, Rocky, or Lord of the Rings. “I wanted to be a magician, but I realized that what I was into was the connection between music and stories. He had started work as a magician for the same reason. It was Sech’s love for storytelling that first attracted him to music and brought him into creating tracks for trailers and documentaries. You have to be there and you have to be willing to give your everything.” “You know this quote: ‘Inspiration is great, but it better find you working.’ I work a lot but chance plays such a big role. “I owe everything to this small little coincidence in my career,” Sech told us. Now you realize my problem, I need more CDs!” He wrote, “There was only one CD in my car and it was yours and she loved it and kept it. The man was driving around the heiress of former famed composer Richard Wagner’s family. For me that meant a lot because that’s what I was selling after my concerts back then, trying to get money back for the plane ticket and to help my earnings… three months later I was in Andalusia playing concerts and I. “I remember not having anything to thank him with for the coffee and I gave him a CD of mine. Someone had noticed how he was keeping time like a conductor and invited him to a coffee. Sech got his big break when he was watching a show at the Berlin Philharmonic. “Trying to do everything, playing small radio stations, Philharmonics or concert halls to little cafes where they are making espresso while I was playing… when you come from Buenos Aires you need to pay for a big plane ticket… It was then that I fell in love with Europe.” “I went to Europe doing several tours,” he told us. “Sech”, as he goes by, first came to Europe to tour on solo guitar, when he fell in love with the Continent and decided to stay. Sebastian Pecznik originally hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina, though we work with him out of his Berlin studio.
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