Joaquín Orellana, one of Guatemala’s leading composers, calls his creations útiles sonoros (“sound tools”), and many of them are de-and-reconstructed versions of his country’s national instrument, the marimba. “The ingenuity of Orellana’s inventions,” writes Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “often hovers between playfulness and cruelty.” – The New York Times

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