Shining Shadow
Íkaro Valderrama Ortiz
Music of Poetry
Íkaro Valderrama Ortiz
Íkaro Valderrama Ortiz (Sogamoso, Colombia, July 17, 1984) is a singer, writer, philosopher, editor, and producer born in Sogamoso, Colombia. His musical and literary work is influenced mainly by his experiences and learning in Siberia, by poetry and social song. As a singer-songwriter, he is noted for the use of the Siberian throat-singing (khai, uzlyau, xöömej) and the kotodama. Electric guitar and Siberian instruments accompany him in his presentations. Founding member of Tash-Obaa, a music duet from Khakassia. His anthology Cuentos de minicuentos undoubtedly establishes Ikaro Valderrama as one of the masters of the short genre in recent Colombian literature.
Shining Shadow: Duration of the Performance-60min
The voice emerges from the unknowable depths of nothingness. The creation of the universe, in different cosmogonies, has to do with that moment when silence is transformed into sound, syllable, word, universe. The intuition of this mystical experience has led the Colombian poet and singer-songwriter Íkaro Valderrama to propose ⸺after several years of research and practice⸺ this unique fusion between poetry, electric guitar and Siberian throat singing, with which he seeks to approach, and transmit, the ominous beauty of that timeless moment, when the shadow shines and a breath of creation comes out of nowhere.