The prominent regional musician is the main guest of the ninth installment of this space, winner of the 2018 National Music Fund. The broadcast will be this Saturday, November 03, starting at 20:00 p.m. on Radio Universitaria 94.5 FM in La Serena and Coquimbo .

Radio Universitaria FM, station of the University of La Serena, will broadcast this week the ninth episode of its program cycle called "Our Sounds: Musical Creators of the Coquimbo Region", dedicated exclusively to the dissemination of regional authors and musicians.

This week's guest will be the musician Orlando Sánchez Placencia, who stands out in his role as a composer and producer in our region.

With 5 albums in his career, his work has been recognized with the 2014 Luis Advis National Composition Award (Folkloric Root) and with a nomination at the 2017 Pulsar Awards as best roots artist and best album of the year, thanks to his latest CD "Very Chilean!"

Sánchez is also an academic at the Department of Music at the University of La Serena and a member of the folklore and psychedelic rock group Los Changos and the Chilean chamber music ensemble Terral del Elqui.  

His music is not limited to any style or genre; However, he shows a marked interest in the use of the musical heritage of the territory that is today Chile, together with modern sounds and experimentation, achieving a work that is avant-garde and at the same time with a territorial character.  

Accompanied by musician friends from jazz, the symphonic world and folklore, they perform in various instrumental formats, exploring and developing proposals where the transposed guitar, the Chilean guitarrón, diaguita aerophones, local rhythms, electronic effects, symphonic instruments coexist naturally, vernacular, improvisation and instruments of their own invention and construction.

Their concerts are a stimulating, educational, exciting, entertaining and unmissable experience for all audiences.

In addition to his authorial work, Orlando is actively involved in different creative teams in the performing and audiovisual arts, composing original music for his works.

“Our Sounds” is a project promoted by the Department of Corporate Communications of the ULS, which was the winner of the 2018 National Music Fund, Chilean Music Radio Broadcasting line.

The invitation is to tune in to this ninth episode, which will be broadcast this Saturday, November 03, starting at 20:00 p.m., through the 94.5 frequency of Radio Universitaria FM for La Serena and Coquimbo and on its online signal available at www. .userena.cl.