“The rivers have music, the stones have music, the wind has music. Everything in the world sings, and those who know how to listen understand that the voice of the earth is one—a melody that connects us to the trees, the mountains, and the birds.”

— José María Arguedas

The first edition of the Sacred Valley Triennial opens with the proposal The Valley Listens.

Here, listening is understood as a form of attentiveness toward the territory and the many forms of life that inhabit it. It involves returning to the sounds of the landscape, the resonances of memory, and the vibrations that move through the environment.

In this sense, listening is understood both as a form of presence and as a way of life.

Throughout the Triennial, a series of sound projects will explore different approaches to sound—from musical practices and field recordings to research into the territory’s instruments, materials, and acoustic processes.

These projects mark the beginning of a research process that will continue over the following years through residencies, workshops, and gatherings.

Through listening, the Triennial proposes a way of sensing and transmitting life.

The project will unfold over two months through a series of live broadcasts on Radio Pitusiray Calca 103.3 FM.

Each session offers a distinct approach to sound as a medium for artistic creation, shaping an ongoing process that develops over time.

The project is also conceived as a recognition of local radio stations, understood as essential spaces of listening, memory, and transmission within the territory.

ARTISTS

The Triennial brings together artists whose practices emerge from Peru’s coast, highlands, and rainforest, as well as from diverse international contexts, creating a dialogue between territories and different ways of listening.

Naid Cruz

Naid Cruz is a film composer, sound artist, and noise enthusiast from Cusco, currently based in Los Angeles. Her career combines professional audio production with a strong academic background. Focusing on the evolution of electronic music, she uses technology to sculpt soundscapes.

Nahun Saldaña

Nahun Saldaña is a Peruvian designer, researcher, and sound artist. His work has been presented at international sound art institutions and festivals.

His practice lies at the intersection of soundscape, ecology, and acoustic experimentation, exploring sound as a space of connection between the human, the natural, and the political.

He is currently researching the relationships between voice, territory, and climate change from a critical and sensory perspective.

Elena Rivoltini

Elena Rivoltini is a performer, sound artist, and curator. Her research focuses on voice, archives, and more-than-human ecologies. Her practice brings together writing, sound, ritual, performance, and modes of listening, combining critical reflection with embodied methodologies.

She is the founder of Archive of Voices and curator of CASASTUDIO. She has collaborated with the Venice Biennale Musica and Biennale Teatro, Triennale Milano, APL Vienna, Threes Productions, NERO Editions, and Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Carlos Chevez Hernández

Carlos Chevez Hernández is an Afro-Peruvian singer-songwriter and producer. During his time at Kai Residency, he created the albums Camino a la Libertad and Monteagudo 1825, released in 2023 and 2024 respectively, as well as the songbook KAI (2021–2025).

Mariano Agustín Rosales

Mariano Agustín Rosales is an Argentine musician and educator. He has participated in a wide range of projects as a researcher, composer, sound artist, and instrumentalist in Argentina, Peru, and Germany.

In Peru, he has contributed to the production, dissemination, and teaching of musical practices and historical archives in the regions of Cusco and Puno, working alongside local and migrant artists as well as with various music research groups.

Louis Schofield

Louis Schofield, also known as Par Aaq, is a music producer and composer. His music fuses rhythms and sounds from different parts of Peru and the world, moving across genres such as rock, funk, jazz, and Afrobeat.

Nelson Márquez

Nelson Márquez is a sound designer, producer, and composer (ACM, UK) with twenty years of professional experience. Currently based in the Sacred Valley, his research focuses on immersive acoustic environments and spatial-audio technologies, specializing in surround-sound formats and ambisonic systems.

Carlos Garavito Herrera

Carlos Garavito Herrera is an artist with twenty-six years of experience in photography, video art, and video installations, whose current practice focuses on sound experimentation.

He is the founder and director of Kai Residency in the Sacred Valley, a project he has led for thirteen years as part of his more than sixteen years of cultural project management in the region.

Gladys Conde

Gladys Conde is a composer and performer of ritual songs and songs rooted in family upbringing, created for stage productions and film.

Her extensive body of work includes Zorrito Ramón (2011), Lliqlla: El canto de la abuela (2020), Niños del Sol (2022), the musical oracle Santa Tierra: Para la salud planetaria (2024), and the forthcoming Vuelo de Katari.

She is also the director of socio-environmental projects such as Niños del Sol.

T◬Ҡ◬U (aka t4k4u, TAKAU)

T◬Ҡ◬U is a musician whose works are based on mysterious and intriguing electronic configurations, generating mistaken, mystical, and speculative interpretations of a hypothetical posthuman Peruvian folk music.

Canto Villano

For the past decade, Canto V. Engelhard has created sound rituals that travel from their native Lima to cities, towns, and sacred places. Guided by water as a teacher, they weave sounds from their diasporic body that honor the histories of the territories they inhabit.

These recording ceremonies culminate in soundscapes that guide songs conceived as dissident prayers, harmonized through percussion with stones, rattles, flutes, keyboards, pututo, and shofar.

As a musician, they participate in sound-healing and experimental-music projects, including Resonancia Menguante with Dimitri Manga and Orieta Chrem, Y No with Raimundo Atal and Julia Santoli, and Siestaaa with Jean-Carla Rodea and Ana Rivera Uribe.

They have exhibited soundscape installations at Xapiri Ground in Cusco; the Museo de Arte de Lima, Centro Cultural de España, and Galería Livia Benavides in Lima; RGR Gallery in Mexico City; and Works on Water in New York.

In 2023, they produced the field recordings and sound design for the Peruvian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, representing the community-based educational organization Waman Wasi.

Marco Valdivia

Marco Valdivia develops an ongoing sound composition translated into code, endowed with the capacity to learn, create, and transform.

Juan Barreto

Active since the late 1990s, Juan Barreto’s Rapapay project draws inspiration from Peru’s cultural richness and diversity, connecting IDM and ambient music with folk traditions.

Based in the Santa Eulalia Valley, his current sound is entirely analog and performed live using self-built modular synthesizers. He is the creator of the albums Aymaraes (2003), Ccora, and Uku Pacha, co-creator of the @BQestia SoundSystem, and founder of Cretásico.

Orieta Chrem, aka Oriqi, is a sound-based vibrational therapist, sound engineer, music producer, DJ, and architect. During her sound engineering studies in Barcelona, she began researching the effects of sound on the human body.

She studied Biosonics to deepen her knowledge of quartz crystal singing bowls and trained with renowned gong master Vikrampal. She is also certified as a Biofield Tuning practitioner through Eileen Day McKusick’s specialized training program.

Her current sessions combine all these areas of knowledge, creating her own unique alchemy and offering an immersive sonic experience that supports mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being.

Days: Monday to Friday
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Radio Pitusiray: Calca, 103.3 FM
Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/trienalvallesagrado/

Monday, September 14
Presentation of the Sacred Valley Triennial 2026: The Valley Listens

Tuesday, September 15
Gladys Conde
Work: Voices to Inhabit the Earth

Wednesday, September 16
Valicha Evans
Work: Ancestors

Thursday, September 17
Mora Malbran
Singing Workshop

Friday, September 18
Naid Cruz
Work: Lethargies and Time