The radio station of the University of La Serena will revive the large auditorium format with live audiences and musicians, providing a powerful broadcast platform for musicians and composers from the Coquimbo Region.

With the aim of strengthening its programmatic proposal and providing new broadcast spaces to local musicians, Radio Universitaria FM 94.5, a station from the University of La Serena, generated a new radio project, with which it was recently awarded the National Music Fund 2020, Chilean Music Radio Broadcasting line, a call led each year by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.

The winning project is called “From the Auditorium: live musical sessions with artists from the Coquimbo Region”, and will be a biweekly broadcast space, which will initially have six episodes in its first season, which will have a duration of 60 minutes. per chapter, intended to publicize and disseminate works by local creators, in live format, in the context of a large radio auditorium, in the style of the radio of yesteryear, staging in which the artists will perform their works, interacting with the audience and thus recovering a historical format that has been lost in current radio broadcasting.

For the Coordinator of the Department of Protocol and University Radio, Mg. Karina Damke Álvarez, the importance of developing this project is due to the fact that currently in our region there is no space intended to disseminate works by local authors and composers in this format, making this project a dissemination platform for artists' material. regional and especially for those linked to the University of La Serena. “We are very proud as a team to give life to this project, which consolidates the work that has been done to reinforce the local identity of our programming and for which this type of financing is key to the creation of new projects,” said Damke. .

The program will begin its broadcasts during the month of September 2020 and will be coordinated and conducted by Rodrigo Gutiérrez, in addition to the musical production of Daniela Banderas, an academic from the ULS Department of Music, who has selected the six participating artists, who represent the sound diversity that arises in our territory and especially in the training and academic field that exists within this University.

Among the participants in this space are the musicians Eduardo Enrique Gajardo, Gabriel Gálvez, Cristian Monreal, Patricio Galleguillos, María Cecilia Zamorano and Luis Alberto Mery, who will give life to this first season “From the Auditorium.”

Source: University Radio