ARJ | Brazil | V. 2, n. 1 | p. 112-119 | Jan. /June 2015 MAIGUASHCA | Interview From the experimental to the ancestral – An interview with Mesías Maiguashca (Quito, 1938-) Jonathan Andrade, Rogério Costa Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-CMU Program) NuSom: Research Centre of Sonology jonyfree2015@gmail.com rogercos@usp.br Mesías Maiguashca’s artistic and academic experience makes him a significant composer and researcher within the context of contemporary music. From his initial steps in electronic music in 1967 at WDR studios in Cologne, Germany in partnership with Stockhausen, to his conceptual experimental work La canción de la tierra premiered in the early hours of Inti Raymi 1 on June 21, 2013, one sees a rich journey encompassing a world of aesthetic possibilities, technological resources and principally, transmutations as an experimental musician and promoter of socio-creative music processes 2 in his native Ecuador. During his long journey of growth, among many other activities, Maiguashca was part of a group led by K. Stockhausen who, in the 1970s performed the piece Stimmung several times; he witnessed the artistic ferment between 1965 and 1975 when the movements Fluxus and Neue Music [New Music] were the creative and compositional paradigms; he participated in the development of analog and digital technologies at IRCAM (Paris, France); and later, between 1978 and 1987, was a Professor of Electro-Acoustic Music at the Centre Europée 1 Inti Raymi is a traditional indigenous festival celebrated throughout the Andean region on the 21st and 22 nd of June (when the sun is closest to the earth). The celebration is to worship Inti (the God of the Sun); in indigenous cosmology, the god Inti is the supplier of heat, food and vitality to men and women, playing a fundamental role in the existence of the Andean Indian. 2 The composer Mesias Maiguashca alternates his activities between Europe and Ecuador. In Ecuador, he it has ministered workshops on experimental music and actively fosters the creation and maintenance of spaces dedicated to creation within the musical and Ecuadorian context. In addition, he plays a significant role in defending indigenous rights.