“Voices of Rosario”, is the title chosen for the book that will be presented next Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Homo Sapiens bookstore at Sarmiento 829. It is a series of interviews conducted by journalist Edgardo Pérez Castillo with personalities from the city. The event will be attended by the author who will be accompanied by Beatriz Vignoli, Perico Pérez, Sebastián Riestra and Horacio Vargas.
Edited by Homo Sapiens, with general production by Horacio Vargas and text editing by Beatriz Vignoli“Voces de Rosario” brings together fifteen interviews conducted between 2019 and 2023 for the cultural magazine Barullo and for the newspaper La Capital (edited by Sebastián Riestra). After a selection process, the list was completed with testimonies from Liliana Herrero, Elvio Gandolfo, Patricia Suárez, Reynaldo Sietecase, Coki Debernardi, Jorge Fandermole, Sandra Corizzo, Nélida Argentina Zenón, Rodolfo “Cholo” Montironi, Rubén “Chivo” González , Jorge Molina, Héctor Ansaldi, Luis Machín, Chiqui González and Pablo Feldman.
“Against the grain of a trend in vogue, these interviews are carried out by their interviewees,” says Beatriz Vignoli in the prologue of the book. With his fine and discreet art, Pérez Castillo listens to them so that they can unfold their voice, each one his own voice: a musical ethic, applied to cultural journalism but learned before on the stages of the jam session or the jam session. There each artist has an equal number of measures to show off in a solo, and has to know how to take the background of accompaniment and listening while waiting, with respect for the other, for his moment of glory: there is no point in getting impatient, interrupting, stepping on , break the code.”
From that place of privilege to the testimonies, The “Voces de Rosario” interviews seek to connect elements of the past that define an artistic and professional endeavor that is influential for new generations.. And they weave a social and cultural framework. This is what Vignoli points out: “These interviews, many of which were conducted with musicians, have the conceptual beauty of counterpoint. Question and answer feed each other and go, throughout the pages, building the melody of meaning. The reader will attend as a listener this composition in progress: improvisation in the best sense of the word, because it involves deep layers of information and training. Because it links. (…) Between question and answer, the interview allows us to glimpse the meaning of doing. Both voices weave, together with the story, the red thread that unites the past to the present, and not only that: it is, in the end, about finding and stating what unites a social and cultural actor with his community. .
About the Author
Edgardo Pérez Castillo (Ciudad Evita, province of Buenos Aires, 1977) has a degree in Journalism from the National University of Rosario, the city where he has lived since 1990. In 1996 he attended the Silver Oaks Secondary School in Eldorado Park (Johannesburg, South Africa) as part of the annual cultural exchange program of the American Field Service (AFS), an experience that led him to decline his career as a biotechnologist to turn to journalism.
Between 1999 and 2017 he was editor and editor of the Culture & Entertainment section of Página/12 in Rosario. Since 2007 he has worked at the Ministry of Culture of the Province of Santa Fe, where he works in the Communication area as head of Content Production. As a producer and scriptwriter for Signal Santa Fe, a public content producer of that Ministry, he participated in the making of a hundred documentaries for television.
He was part of various projects on Radio Río, Rock&Pop Rosario, Fm TL105 and Canal 4 (Cablehogar Rosario). Since 2004 she has been a professor at the Workshop on New Technologies Applied to Journalism at the Rosario Journalism Institute (former TEA Rosario). He is also the holder of the Practical Languages II subject at the Alberdi Educational Complex in Rosario, from which he is a graduate.
As an amateur musician, he was a trumpeter for the bands Freaks (punk rock), The Broken Toys (rockabilly) and Water Soul (nü metal).
