Under the Research and Preservation Grant Program, the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation distinguished the National University of Quilmes (UNQ).

All the winners chosen by the Foundation were announced this Tuesday, In this way, two types of subsidies will be offered to musical institutions, Nonprofit organizations, musicologists and researchers around the world who enhance and preserve the heritage of Latin music.

This year, a diverse group of institutions and researchers will receive this support. The four grants, each with a maximum value of 5 one thousand dollars, support various projects. Preservation grants fund the cataloging and preservation of Latin music and its unique customs, while research grants support projects dedicated to historical and anthropological studies, in addition to documentation of Latin traditions and folklore.

“Este año tuvimos el grupo de solicitantes más diverso en la historia de nuestro programa de Subvenciones de Investigación y Preservación”, said Manolo Díaz, Senior Vice President of the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. “Esperamos continuar brindando apoyo a estos proyectos que preservan la música latina y su legado, en especial mientras muchas organizaciones actualmente enfrentan restricciones financieras”, ended.

La UNQ fue distinguida por su “Registro de canto con caja en entornos acústicos originarios”, which proposes to establish a dialogue about the ancestral music of a region with the landscape in which it was conceived, from acoustic research and audiovisual recordings that can be experienced using immersion technologies (virtual reality, audio binaural).

In particular, It is proposed to register the Singing with Box, an ancestral practice of the Andean region, in a space with great acoustic richness: the natural amphitheater of Quebrada de las Conchas in Argentina.