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Weaving music for Radio, by latin american women composers

  • Capela Santa María 273 Rua Conselheiro Laurindo Curitiba, PR, 80060-100 Brazil (map)
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WEAVING MUSIC FOR RADIO, BY LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN COMPOSERS, which received an award by the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC) 2016, UNESCO. The project’s duration is 1 year (from April 2017 to March 2018).

Works by

Natalia Solomonoff
Melissa Vargas
Valeria Bonafé
Tania Rubio
Rafaele María Andrade
Roseane Yampolschi
Georgina Canifrú Candia
Patricia Martínez.

The purpose of this project is to create a series of 3Radio Music Programs with artistic works by 8 Latin American Women Composers. Each program will present 2 original pieces by women composers. The Radio Program MUSICAOS, broadcasted by Federal University of Pelotas and Federal University of Paraná, will host the radio programs: <www.programa-musicaos.blogspot.com.br>. The project will also involve an interview with each composer, a concert with the works comissioned and a Forum for public and academic exchanges of ideas, in Brazil. 

Some partnerships already carried out for this project are: Federal University of Paraná, Espaço Cultural Capela Santa Maria (Fundação Cultural de Curitiba), Laboratório LaMuSa (Embap) and Sonora (Research Group on Women and Gender, ECA – USP).

The main goal of the project is to arouse new forms of perception and of understanding culture by embodying women’s Latin American voices as artworks. 

The conception of this work, as a whole, takes as a point of departure the idea that radio works can affect their listeners more directly and deeply, insofar as their predominant aural nature can be very appealing to the senses. That way, the work’s fragments, in being transformed by each person’s listening experience, remain a natural, energetic source for life reconfiguration and feedback.

Works by Natalia Solomonoff, Melissa Vargas, Valeria Bonafé, Tania Rubio, Rafaele María Andrade, Roseane Yampolschi, Georgina Canifrú Candia and Patricia Martínez.


O Rádio é um meio de comunicação que, ao longo de sua história, vai se transformando, de modo a se amoldar ao seu tempo. Contudo, seria possível imaginá-lo não somente como resultado, mas também como parte de um processo artístico? Este é o desafio proposto a oito compositoras, de diferentes idades e países, cujas diferentes experiências e habilidades coincidem na busca por novas perspectivas de produção musical e igualdade social de gêneros na América Latina. 

projeto Weaving Music for Radio, by Latin American Women Composers foi um dos oito projetos selecionados pelo Fundo Internacional para  Cultura (Unesco, 2016). As músicas encomendadas às oito compositoras serão apresentadas gradativamente, em uma série de quatro programas, cada qual com uma hora de duração. Estes programas serão transmitidos por MUSICAOS, um programa de rádio produzido em parceria entre a Universidade Federal do Paraná e a Universidade Federal de Pelotas (abril/2018). O programa MUSICAOS vai ao ar em quatro emissoras educativas por AM, FM e respectivas web rádios. 

Com a finalidade de ampliar a divulgação das obras para rádio e promover o diálogo entre as compositoras e com o seu público, haverá um concerto e um fórum, de modo  a destacar a presença das compositoras convidadas (Capela Santa Maria, Curitiba, PR) (fevereiro/2018), e a publicação das obras em um CD  (JLN Produções Musicais).

Através de um conjunto de obras radiofônicas, o projeto visa a despertar em seu ouvinte novas formas de percepção e de compreensão das culturas latino-americanas por meio da incorporação das vozes de suas criadoras em seus processos artísticos. É nossa convicção de que o rádio pode afetar os seus ouvintes de forma mais direta, conforme a sua natureza aural predominante, podendo a sua experiência ser mais atraente e prazerosa para os sentidos. A música para rádio se constitui, portanto, como uma via para redimensionar os valores e hábitos em cada comunidade social, revitalizando as trocas genéricas.

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Barely the Breath

Apenas el Aliento

Interdisciplinary radiophonic & scenic cartography work
for amplified soprano, percussion, piano, violin, cello, clarinet, flute and electroacoustic sounds

Commissioned by Weaving Music for Radio by Latin American Women Composers / UNESCO A commission's project and Forum for women Latin-American composers,

sponsored by the International Found for Promotion of Culture (IFPC).

by Patricia Martínez

Barely the breath is an Interdisciplinary radiophonic & scenic cartography work. So, this work was thought to be finally presented on radio and also as a live performance that includes scenic elements too.

Barely the breath is for voice, ensemble and electroacoustic sounds. This work is interconnected and devoted to a bigger idea: possibly part of an imaginary opera that still is not born yet, but that is growing in the inside.

The subject of the end of the world is understood as that something completely devastating, by all means, in the full sense of our existence that we approach at every single instant in our life. This is something that is happening now and everywhere. It is not possible to describe with words the completely meaning of this subject because it is something that is happenings on infinite directions of human perception, socio cultural representations, economic transformations, macro global society and day to day individual lives.

Barely the breath will try to open a reflection about this extreme feeling that arrives to humanity in a global, but also in the more intimate level too.

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