Bande Cuerpo - Body Music

BANDECUERPO Body Music was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2009, as a platform for research and experimentation in body music.

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The group is comprised of musicians, workshop instructors, and educators. We make music with our bodies and our voices. We develop and research on new ways to “orchestrate and instrument” our body sounds. In our search, we explore sound and the timbral resources our bodies offer us as an instrument to develop arrangements and rhythms that are usually performed with traditional percussion instruments. Our interest lies in developing sound, our bodies, and our voices in harmony with movement and space.
BANDECUERPO Body Music was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2009, as a platform for research and experimentation in body music. The group has offered training courses to musicians, dancers, teachers, youngsters, and children in different education institutes in Uruguay, where sessions were designed to follow the national education curriculums and programs.
We have been invited to make part of various proposals at several major theaters in Montevideo: Sala Zavala Muniz, Sala Zitarrosa, Sala Experimental, and Sala Hugo Balzo. We have taken in part in activities sponsored by, inter alia, the University of the Republic of Uruguay, the Ministry of Social Development, the National Youth Institute, the Play Biennial Exhibit, and the Uruguayan Children’s and Youngsters’ Institute.
In 2014, Bandecuerpo Body Music presented their first full show of their own, with their own creations, involving only corporal sounds. Ours is one of the first corporal percussion shows in our country, a conjugation of our bodies, the surrounding space, and our sounds. Our show benefits of the direction of Alexander Riedmüller, a German graduate in Rhythm from the Music and Performing Arts University in Vienna, Austria, who co-founded in Buenos Aires the experimental and training ensemble known as Rítmica Viena.
The show was first performed in one of the main theaters in Montevideo, the Nelly Goitiño Auditorium of the SODRE Complex. A full house offered a heartfelt welcome to our show and we got rave reviews from the media.
Before the opening night, we carried out several preliminary free-admission activities with juvenile groups at the National Youths Institute and in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at Café Vinilo, within the International Rhythmic Week.
In 2012, our group won the first prize in the Young Musicians Activities category of the competition organized by the municipal government of Monte video. Likewise, in 2012, the National Music Fund, granted them support for group training in singing and in 2014 they funded our tickets for the group to take part in September in the International Rhythmic Week of Buenos Aires (www.sirba.com.ar).
Recently, the Ibermusicas program granted us assistance to facilitate a tour in Chile, where we shall make a series of presentations in Santiago in November 2015.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
 Singing lessons with professor Mariana Lucía, group training project approved by the first 2012 call of the National Music Fund;
 First Prize, Young Musicians Activities, 2012, Youth’s Secretary’s Office, Municipal Government of Montevideo;
 Tickets and lodging for the group to take part in the 3rd International Rhythmic Week of Buenos Aires, Argentina, approved by the first 2013 call of the National Music Fund;
 Transportation for the group to make a tour in Chile in November 2015, Ibermúsicas.

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