Geographic Feelings in the Music of Dino Saluzzi: Relationship between Emotions and Spaces in the Album Cité De La Musique (ECM, 1996)

Abstract

The objective of this article is to demonstrate in the album Cité de la musique by the composer and musician from Salta Dino Saluzzi the relationship that is woven between the spaces and the emotions, consequently, the spatial reminiscences of his hometown Campo Santo, a city in the province of Salta, Argentina. The methodology used was based on asking people of different Argentine nationality profiles to listen to three pieces of music and tell what feelings, sensations, smells, flavors, images, textures and landscapes aroused in them. Based on these stories, the analysis of the nine compositions that make up this album was structured. The starting point is the idea that music can function as a mediator of the emotional relationships that associate the human and the places that the Brazilian geographer Beatriz Furlanetto develops in her text Geografia da Música: rodas de choro, emoções e encontros, thought in which the space in its connection with music has a privileged place.