“That’s how I started a music recording studio”

By: Juan Carlos Monzón – Communications Advisory Office

The UCundinamarca and its Music program aim to ensure that students acquire knowledge and develop skills and abilities specific to their musical training, enabling them to perform as professional musicians from different perspectives, and this is a good example of that principle.

His idea was born in the midst of the pandemic when he was taking virtual classes from Duitama in 2020. “The idea came to me one day when I was at home and I said: music is a career in which one must be going from one place to another performing in front of the public; so that's when I thought about generating other income and since I had seen music production at the university, I didn't hesitate to carry it out.”.

Thus Home Studio was born, a company with that mission, and to achieve it, he had to invest in equipment in a small space in his home. “I bought it and little by little I put it together. I still need some things, because all those items are expensive.”.

For this musician who plays the euphonium, also known as the bombardino, setting up his own recording studio helped him to better present his work in the subject of music production. “When my classmates saw how polished my assignments were, they started asking me to help them, and I did, charging a fee. Now that I've graduated, other colleagues frequently call me to advise them on their music productions; I've even been contacted from Mexico. I worked on another artistic project there. I've also expanded my portfolio to include audiovisual productions, where I do the mixing and video editing.”.

But his work doesn't end there. He used that studio to participate in the Boyacá Reactiva la Cultura grant program. “I took advantage of having my studio and submitted a pasillo (a type of Mexican folk song) of my own composition titled El Soñador Betoyano (The Dreamer of Betoy) in honor of my hometown of Beteitiva. Shortly after, they contacted me to inform me that I had won.”.

The self-taught young man who played the trombone and euphonium and traveled the rural roads of his beloved Boyacá is nothing like he was then. His musical evolution is immense, thanks to the development of a specific artistic knowledge that has given him different capacities for dialogue with other areas such as local culture and research. ”I am grateful to the institution that trained me and allowed me to explore diverse musical genres, since I now put all the knowledge I acquired into practice. Currently, I am more selective; that is, I have greater discernment when making decisions that affect my career.”.

His professional growth doesn't end there, because thanks to UCundinamarca, which sought to cultivate him, Strengthen and create experiences, principles, and values who shaped him as a transhuman being, now wishes to pursue a master's degree at the University of La Rioja in Spain. "It's something I have planned and I want to do it next year in musical composition.".

Today, from his position as a graduate, he doesn't hesitate to give advice to new generations of musicians. "University trains us to be good instrumentalists, but also to work as music producers, and the latter can be a good option as a life project.".

It is worth highlighting that the University of Cundinamarca is conceived as a multidimensional field of learning, where the classroom is not the only source of learning; but also realities such as culture, the person, society, the institution, the family and nature, which interact with each other, give rise to the expected learning outcome, evidenced in an improved and transformative act, where students act, live experiences and solve problems of social, disciplinary and personal reality.

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