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- Music piece by:Luis Advis
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla
- Experience in:
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- « Between March 1974 and July 1975, I had the opportunity to arrange about 200 songs and direct the production of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique. In truth, the prison was my conservatoire. That’s where I learnt the basics of the profession of musician. »
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- « During that time, an economics professor from the University of Concepción arrived and brought a keyboard accordion and a book with scores with him. There was an introduction to music theory in this book and I devoured it straight away. That’s how I learnt to write music between June and July 1975 and transcribed the Cantata Santa María on a score with the melodies and the accompanying chords. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975
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- « During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »
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- « From nothing, contraptions to warm up water, radio transmitters and even a solar oven appeared! One day, a group was seeing how this oven - Boris Chornik's creation - worked and one prisoner commented jokingly: 'and then these assholes will wonder why we were prisoners here'. »
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Recinto: Recinto CNI, calle Rancagua con José Miguel Infante- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 1, San Fernando (Conocida también como la Prefectura de Colchagua por funcionar en las mismas dependencias )- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 5, Concepción (actual Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 2)- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 4, Concepción (actual Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 1)- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Regimiento La Concepción / Regimiento Andino, Lautaro- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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I’m Not from Here - To my Comrade, my Love (No soy de aquí - A mi compañera)
- Music piece by:Facundo Cabral, with lyrics modified by a political prisoner
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla Silva
- Experience in:Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 25 December 1973
- Tags:
- « The choir of male prisoners sang a piece called 'A mi compañera' (To my comrade, my love) to the music of 'No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá' (I'm not from here, nor from there) by Facundo Cabral. »
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- « and I contemplate your figure like a blade of grass »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Gabriela Durand
- Experience in:
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- « I was 18, and already I had been tortured on the
parrilla several times. One day I was with some other comrade prisoners, and as sometimes happened, the guards put some music on. »- [...]
- « the brimming, condescending moment »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:David Quintana García
- Experience in:Intendencia de Rancagua, 1973
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