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The article describes the creative process of the series of electroacoustic works Relative Patterns by composer Fredy Vallejos, taking as a starting point the notion of a model applied to musical composition, through computer tools (in particular computer-assisted composition and with electroacoustic means).  After a historical and conceptual introduction to the compositional writing used in the series, the elements necessary for a rhythmic formalization that serve as a basis for the structuring of the compositions will be detailed. This formalization is based mainly on the interpretation of models proposed by musicologist Shimha Arom for the analysis of Central African music, transcribed into the traditional and proportional notation system through the Open Music programming environment. Likewise, this article exposes the compositional elements of the Relative Patterns series that are not present in music of African origin, as well as the different forms of confrontation between traditional music and written or experimental music.

This article explores the relationship between aesthetics, art, and the animal world. To do so, it examines artists who have constructed their poetics based on animal ecosystems and the worlds surrounding them. This relationship with animal life implies a movement from representation to presentation, as the set of animal signs unfolds and inserts itself into the world of the arts. These perspectives are ecological and negentropic, as they propose a departure from the anthropocentric machine to discover the singularities of living beings with their own intelligences. Finally, we examine three artists who live in Guayaquil, who reinstate the practice of visual arts in previously unseen places. These artists explore the interaction with technology, the city's ecosystems, the extractivism inherent to the urban environment, and the lack of interspecies diplomacy that prioritizes the preservation of humans over the earth. Their proposals invite us to question our way of life and to experience the locality with its own logic, knowledge, and life solutions.

This article briefly describes an important event for the Catholic Christian community in Venezuela: the canonization of its first saint and, even more surprisingly, the first microbiologist saint in world history. After 106 years, following his death for sanctification, popular fervor remains alive around the Venezuelan saint whom the Vatican recognized for healing many sick people around the world, with hundreds of families documenting their gratitude for the favors received.

The documentary describes the daily life of a small rural town called Salitre. This is where Brigitte Arreaga, a young film student who travels to the city of Guayaquil to pursue her higher education, was born. This audiovisual production explores aspects of rural life and modern city life, in this case, the city of Guayaquil, through Briggite's eyes. It also presents elements of the montuvio traditions of this population and their forms of representation, such as the montuvio rodeo, horse races along the riverbank, the proclamation of true love, and popular festivals. The Montuvia culture represents the culture of the rural areas of the Ecuadorian coast. This culture is a mixture of the original populations of these regions, the Spanish colonizers, and the Afro-descendant people. It is based on oral tradition, music, dance, and its relationship with the countryside and agriculture.

The freedom to write some notes for Mayéutica speaks of the scientific spirit that animates those who today, in the midst of the situation in which we live, fulfill the titanic task, if you will pardon the metaphor, of editing it. Don Quixote said: “Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts given to men by the heavens”. Accepting the proposal was an instantaneous decision; that life is full of moments is a truism. Moments of reflection to approach a subject, to have the exact time and the precise space to order the thought to write, to rewrite ideas. But who defines what an instant is?

Carnival, says Russian philosopher and philologist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), is a semiotic system that has been built up over the centuries. The language of carnival permeated the literature and utopian musings of the Renaissance. The world in which François Rabelais (1483-1553), the great figure of 16th-century French and world literature, was a carnivalesque world of popular inspiration, of the public square, which allowed him to write Gargantua and Pantagruel, the embodiment of the essence of carnival, and which can be clearly seen in Peter Brueghel the Elder's brilliant painting The Battle Between Carnival and Lent, painted in 1559.

Wilman Ordoñez Iturralde's book, "La rockola en Guayaquil. Ensayo sobre la música y la cultura popular del despecho", is a significant contribution to studies on popular music in Guayaquil. Its author, a researcher and folklorist with a long trajectory, brings the reader closer to the historical narration from everyday life; a story that is permeated with autobiographical elements, but full of ethnographic interventions: interviews, field visits to bars and lupanars, exercise of memory and identity. The reason for its publication, among many things, was the systematic disappearance, not only of the jukebox, but also of the music, places and people that were part of the author's life. The presence/absence of the rockola, has served the researcher to organize, as a prelude, a study on the different elements of popular music in Guayaquil: music stores, periodicals, the creation and self-affirmation of the coastal identity, the presence of phonograms produced by the record labels Odeon, Panart, RCA Victor, the cabarets and brothels circuit, local and international characters that were linked to popular music in the city. Because the distinctive feature of the book is the impact that popular music has had on the city.

In the current political landscape, anti-democratic movements are on the rise due tointolerant rhetoric on social media, threatening democratic regimes. This article investigatesthe relationship between the speeches of political leaders and violent acts, analyzingattacks on public property in the United States (2021) and Brazil (2023) during governmenttransitions. The method used is a Case Study accompanied by an analysis of the politicalleaders’ speeches. The main conclusions are that the speeches of political leaders on socialmedia are related to the mobilization of violent acts.

The article discusses the growing role of non-state actors in global climategovernance, contrasting the apparent consensus on their global contributions withthe proliferation of local environmental conflicts. Liberal institutionalist approacheshighlight the polycentric and transnational nature of this governance but do notaddress gaps in the representation of local groups affected by global solutions likethe energy transition. Through a literature review and discussion of conflicts relatedto lithium mining in South America, we argue that the consensus on non-state actionis shaped by corporate interests’ hegemony, making local conflicts and inequalitiesinvisible.

This article analyzed male homosexual relationships in pre-colonial Namibia, investigating how homosexuality was experienced during the pre-intrusion period and its historical evolution, including the debate on the current “Sodomy Law.” It is a qualitative study based on bibliographic and critical documental analysis, employing queer international relations methodology to explore homosexuality as a historical process. The study concludesthat the concepts of gender and sexuality among the pre-colonial peoples of the region differed significantly from contemporary Western understandings. Notably, the accounts of the Ovambo regarding omashengi challenge heteronormativity while reflecting social hierarchies of the pre-colonial period.