Kaninga Produções

Kaninga Produções Musicais is an extension project that aims to support the production musical made within the scope of the technical and graduation courses of the UFRN School of Music, through the creation and implementation of music labels. For music production, we refer to the processes of making, recording, recording and disseminating songs, that is, record, register and make the music transit legally both on streaming platforms digital, as in radio and other forms of dissemination that may include the execution of live music. Music production, therefore, refers to a transversal universe of music with the area of communication, marketing, law and administration and if also extends to the dialogue with the visual arts, both with regard to the creation music and the processes of artistic expression of the performer or composer, as well as in what competes with the treatment of music as a marketable product.

Understanding the need to affirm local musical production in parallel with the idea of appreciation of the musical culture from Rio Grande do Sul, it was decided to seek references in the indigenous roots, both as a form of historical reparation and as a to break a centuries-old tradition of erasure. We have few references about the direct or indirect influences that indigenous musicality may have had on music potiguar, which contrasts with the abundant presence of historical marks of these peoples in our territory.

To make a commitment to enhance the local culture and, based on it, build a identity for the musical products that will be generated, we chose a name that represented at the same time the indigenous identity and the sense of persistence.

The general objective of the Project is to launch four music labels, which, once established, will remain annually helping the process of recording and releasing songs in the areas of concert music (Kaninga Pero), authorial potiguar music (Kaninga Potiguara), popular music linked to cultural traditions with indigenous protagonism (Kaninga Tapuia), and jazz-influenced instrumental or vocal music (Kaninga Banga). The entire process will be developed by teachers and students from the Music Production (undergraduate) and Studio Practice III disciplines (technical course in Phonographic Processes).