On 26 March, M300 hosted a lecture by Dr. Carlos Calderón entitled Music and Ritual: Spring, in which the researcher explored the musical expressions linked to one of humanity's oldest rituals: the return of Spring.

Through numerous historical examples, Calderón traced the journey of that sacred time par excellence — the time in which the great myths converge: resurrection, fertility, eternal return and the recreation of the world — with particular attention to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring as the musical paradigm of this ritual dimension.

Dr. Calderón's lecture became a space for listening to and thinking about music as ritual language and as an expression of time and cultural heritage.

About Dr. Carlos Calderón

Carlos Calderón was born in Caracas in 1959. Trained as an architect, he simultaneously pursued studies in music and violin. He later completed graduate studies in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and earned a PhD in Humanities from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, focusing his research on music, art and science within the framework of cultural history. He has taught at institutions dedicated to design and music in both Venezuela and Catalonia, and is a regular lecturer at the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Círculo del Liceo. In 2017 he published El beso y el mordisco (Huygens), a popular version of his doctoral thesis on music as science between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.