FACTORTIERRA

The scientific basis of what you hear, what moves you, and what changes your cheer up.   By Orlando Páez (professional musician, special to FACTORTIERRA)     According to the sterile definition that Google carried ut, it says: “Art of combining the sounds into a temporary sequence by observing the laws of harmony, melody, and rhythm, or to produce them with musical instruments.” | “A set of sucesive sounds combined according to this art, that in general produce an aesthetic or expressive effect, and result nice to the ear.”   On Wikipedia , it says the following: “The music (from Greek   μουσική  [ τέχνη ] -  mousikē  [ téchnē ], ‘the art of the muses’, is, according to the traditional definition of the term, the art to organize sensitively and logically a coherent combination of sounds and silences by respecting the fundamental principles of melody, harmony, and rhythm, through the complexe intervention of psychological-motivational processes.”...

Two girls and two boys who don’t look like anything found a space in the music to sound like one.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs & videos provided by Telón de Boca .   PIURA CITY, Peru – We live almost unconsciousness into a polyphonic world. If we fit to the etimology –multiple sounds —it’s enough to get out to the street, and if we focus in what we hear, we’ll notice not all has similar tone and intensity. The problem is those sounds are not combined, they don’t have the purpose to set up like a pretty sequence to the ear. That’s why we end to experience noise, probably a stress episode that will bring us to get inside our home looking for urgent relaxation. The polyphony in the music is all the opposite, for sure, Inside the same melody we go listening to, the sounds don’t own an equal tone but all set up as good as the ear feels caressed as well as it’s able to raise the alert levels of the brain not in distress but working the same, or bet...

A government office and a radio station joined to protect a natural area.   SULLANA, peru – A trendy cumbia song sounds aloud in the radio receivers of the second largest city in the department. Suddenly, the usual commercials, but one that, not using the hackney back music and only with birds sound effects, warns us on the existentce of el Angolo Hunting.   It wasn’t a spot else in the break of every half-hour but the alliance to promote a protected natural area in Sullana Province , and the only one of its kind across Piura Department . Through an agreement signed by Peru’s National service of Protected Natural Areas (SERNANP, as in Spanish) and Radio Nuevo Norte LLP (RNN), the audience had an advertisement pack explaining what a protected natural area is, and what El Angolo is   “The SERNANP gives us the contents  and we produce the ads,” RNN’s manager Jose Carlos Carrasco Flores explained us.   Reservation of Biosphere El Angolo Hunting...

CATACAOS, Peru - If you are arriving into Piura City this Sunday, April 7th, or the first Sunday of every month, and you want to connect to the Pre-Hispanic past of Piura Valley, the Narihualá Site Museum is a good choice, just located 3 miles away or 10 minutes by car from Catacaos City. The Narihualá Site is an archaeological spot formed by a huaca (pronounce "waka") or sacred place built at the top of a hill, pressumibly Tallán origin, over which the Spaniards built a Catholic temple as part of idolatry extirpation policy adopted when they conquered Peru in 1532 AD. There is no consensus among archeologists about the nature of Narihualá yet. They suppose it was a military-political center, or a religious one, or a combination of both. What they have clear is that Narihualá could be the most important place for Tallán Culture , that fluorished in actual Piura and Tumbes Regions lowlands between 500 AD and 1470 AD. The Discentered Direction of Culture (DDC) annunced...

Canchaqué suffered again from a slide of mud and rocks during rains in 2023.     All the footage: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva .   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru— “Look how it left!,” exclaims Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, a computation technician and producer of a streaming music-TV show, as he saw the debris and the print of a slide of mud and rocks happened just before midnight, March 15 th , 2023.   Juan, artistically known as Facundo, arrived three days later to see how his remaining family was doing in Canchaqué Town , 91 miles by road from Piura City – he couldn’t hold on the sadness despite he tried to manage it by recording with his mobile the clips we share here.   Collating a preliminary report by Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense and testimonies of eyewitnesses gathered by FACTORTIERRA, on March 15 th , 2023, 23:15 PET (0415 UTC, March 16 th , 2023), Púsmalca Valley, where Canchaqué Town is located, had “intense rains.”   Some...

    By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – W hat happened in actual Piura Department before 1532 AD is a big unknown. What we know is explained in key of legend. The rest has consisted in a long forensic work: tracking, digging, extracting, comparing, assuming the gotten is just a piece of a huge puzzle which blanks continue to be as remarkable as the parts seeming to shape.   It’s the case of Tallans , as we know, people who evolved in parallel to Incas,which deadline seems to have ended when the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro entered actual Chira Valley in 1532 through actual Lanconés District , after starting his march from actual Tumbés Department . We know that because there are written records from that point up after – the problem is from that point down before.   Skillful farmers and fishers There is some consensus in historians and archaeologists the Tallans were not one only people but a kind of association of peopl...