El movimiento musical Indie en el Ecuador y sus prácticas comunicativas durante el confinamiento por la pandemia del COVID-19

Abstract

The independent music movement has its revolutionary origin in the creation of small record labels that competed with the multinational record market, usually jazz musician´s who came from small labels. In the ecuadorian context, the independent movement remains emerging, where self-management predominates in order to sustain various projects taking advantage of economic alternatives such as barter, and thus grow as a community. From Shannon's model and its complexity is known the term feedback where a receiver responds to its sender, this reality that can be reflected through the experience of navigation in social networks. At human communication is complex, its communicative practices vary according to their social and economic context. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the whole world to confine itself, affecting the economic and cultural sector, leaving behind the agglomerations for massive events. This situation directly affected independent musicians and artists who used the public space to express their works, so they found in the virtual space the site par excellence to manage their efforts and productions. From the experience of three independent musicians (Luis Villamarín, Jordan Naranjo and Alex Alvear) a reflection will be made based on the anecdotes they faced, their limitations and opportunities during the pandemic