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Latin American Musicologist
About Chai Ramirez
In 2017, Chai Ramirez spent seven months living with the Wixárika (Huichol) communities of the Sierra Madre Occidental, not as an observer but as a co-transcriber, recording, translating, and re-notating ceremonial chants using both staff notation and bespoke visual glyphs that honor the non-linear, cosmological structure of their oral transmission. Her 2022 monograph 'Sonic Cartographies of the Mesa' challenged Western ethnomusicology’s reliance on fixed pitch and meter by mapping how Wixárika deer-song rhythms encode seasonal migration paths and sacred geography. She refuses to digitize field recordings without community consent and co-holds copyright with elders; her archive is hosted on a decentralized server accessible only via bilingual, offline-capable apps distributed through regional cultural centers. Chai doesn’t study music as artifact, she treats it as living kinship practice, where tuning a violin isn’t technical but relational, and silence between phrases carries ancestral weight no algorithm can parse.
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