Abstract

In a proposal that takes place in six episodes, the series El Eternauta (Sigman et al., 2025-present) remakes on the screen the emblematic Argentine comic strip written by Héctor Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López, whose first publication came to light towards the end of the ’50s. Our work will lie in the approach to the series from an ethical-musical analysis, focusing on the investigation of some of the sound pieces that gain entry throughout the different episodes of the fiction, for the purposes of reading the musical event in the cinema. This event aims to transcend the reading of the music in the literality of its significance, to conjecture inflections related to the subjective plots of certain characters in the series in the face of the catastrophic conjuncture that the plot introduces, establishing dialogues between the musical pieces and the scenes in which they take place. In order to establish the proposed articulation, we will conceptually investigate the distinction between the ways in which music can enter cinema (analyzing its diegetic and extradiegetic dimension), the category of "mise en abyss" (Michel Fariña & Laso, 2021; 2024) in its musical aspect, as well as the proposal of Ignacio Lewkowicz (2004) regarding the notions of "catastrophe" and "event" and of Alejandro Ariel (1994) regarding the status of the "act creator".

Keywords: music | put into an abyss | catastrophe | event