Sister-and-brother artists from Buenos Aires, Susana and Gonzalo Silva, were selected as the 2023 Prize winners of the Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center.

Their winning proposal refers to a fellow Argentinean and female pioneer of electroacoustic music in Latin America, Hilda Dianda (b. 1925). Dianda’s Dos Estudios en Oposición (“Two Studies in Opposition,” 1959) was intended for magnetic tape. Likewise, the Silvas’ proposal, “two studies in collaboration” is conceived as a mixed-media installation that explores two distinct research frameworks: the dialogue between graphical music notation and its relationship with contemporary visual art; and a review of Latin American, female representation within the canon of contemporary musical history.