The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies is an exciting and unusual ensemble of musicians and composers who combine instruments from the past and present as well as ritual theater, masks and dance. Members of the ensemble are former students of the award-winning conductor/composer Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, who founded OIANT in Argentina in 2000 to combine the unique sounds of native instruments of the Americas with European instruments and modern digital technology. All the musicians have built their musical instruments after researching their histories, based, in many cases, on models recovered from archaeological sites. The repertoire includes both traditional folk music and new compositions designed to explore sounds that come from combining technologies of the past and the present.

The Model of the Orchestra has received the Musical Rights Award of the UNESCO International Music Council during the World Forum on Music for: “being an inspiring Program which recovers and gives artistic life to indigenous musical instruments, the majority of them long forgotten, at the same time that it develops research, composition, university Diplomas, community courses, concerts and a pedagogical model for all levels”. https://youtu.be/yJFep16G20o

The Music of the Orchestra was selected to be preserved for 1000 years in the Global Music Vault of the North Pole that “protects the future of music by storing fundamental music of the past” through the new Project Silica by Microsoft: NewScientist Article + International Music Council News

“Shamanic Sounds and Crazy Tone Clusters … feels like you have traveled back 1000 years and you are in a strange ceremony celebrating the connections of the culture with the Earth”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES