SOURCE: Jorge Hernan Pelaez

MATH AND MUSIC TOGETHER IN A CALL FOR WORLDWIDE ANTIWAR EXPRESSIONS

Bogotá, Colombia - July 26, 2004/Xpress Press/ - Colombian mathematician and pianist Jorge Hernan Pelaez, launches on Friday 30 of July, his new antiwar website www.musicagainstwar.com, calling for worldwide activists, students, writers, scientists, artists, actors, musicians, filmmakers and celebrities to create an international movement of explicit and authentic expressions against any form of war.

Ideas, songs, photos, videos, letters, poems and any other proposals can be mailed to: info@musicagainstwar.com and during the rest of 2004, the artist will gather the best material and summarize it in a multimedia document that will be sent to United Nations, in an attempt to show the world an artistic and peaceful channel of protest against war. All artistic expressions received in a digital format will be uploaded on the website on a weekly recurring basis.

His personal peace proposition began one year ago with the composition and production of his first piano album “Music Against War”, written as a tribute to war victims. Specifically, the artist is donating 50% of the sales of his album to a non-profit organization, which will manage and control the funds, with the final objective of investing them in musical education for war victims.

Thanks to the integrated web process with third party processors Kagi and Cafepress, the album can be ordered on Audio-CD or downloaded directly from the website on MP3 format. For a listening preview, 20-second clips of the 12 songs are available online. “Music Against War” is an instrumental piece full of sound effects and acoustic piano performances with controversial titles such as Suicide Stereo, Rock Wanted?, Kinder Bomb and Soundtrack for War.

As of today, with his Spanish version of the website www.musicacontralaguerra.com, and live concerts performed during 2003, Jorge Hernan has achieved enough sales to guarantee that Omar Diaz, an injured soldier of military forces, could begin musical studies at University Los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia on August 2003. Donations were made to the non-profit organization Querido Soldado (Dear Soldier), which was created as a free web-based channel so civil society could write encouraging and supportive e-mails to Colombian soldiers www.queridosoldado.org

Jorge Hernan Pelaez is a 32 year old mathematician and independent musician from Bogotá, Colombia, who writes his music through a Stochastic Musical Composition method, technique that combines mathematical formulas such as probabilistic and random series, with the art of creating music. For mathematicians, scientists and engineers, see Jorge Hernan´s technical explanation in his paper at www.musicagainstwar.com/english/paper.htm

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