Radio Sentido · music, culture and community
Piriápolis, Uruguay
Channel
Independent cultural podcast amplifying community processes, music, and critical thought rooted in the territory.
Infrastructure
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Laptop for production and streaming
Purchase of a laptop with sufficient capacity for recording, audio editing, content management, and basic streaming. It is the central working tool of the project and will be used directly for the production and management of Radio Sentido.
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€ 800 | |
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Digital services and hosting
Initial costs for podcast hosting, digital platforms, editing tools, and services required for content publication and distribution.
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€ 250 |
Material
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Basic audio equipment for podcasting
Initial recording kit (USB condenser microphone or basic audio interface, stands, cables, and headphones) to allow voice recording with sufficient quality for publication and archiving within a self-managed production model.
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€ 300 | |
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Basic video equipment / camera
Webcam or simple camera for audiovisual recording and occasional transmissions, interviews, or complementary content.
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€ 200 | |
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Technical equipment upgrade
Possible incorporation of an additional microphone or improvement of the audio interface for in-person interviews or recordings with more than one voice.
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€ 100 |
Task
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General production and project management
Comprehensive coordination work carried out directly by the creator of Radio Sentido: production, content editing, musical and conceptual curation, community management, communication, and overall maintenance of the radio project.
The project is conceived as a primarily self-managed production process, prioritizing direct work in order to ensure its continuity and coherence.
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€ 1.200 | |
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Promotion and graphic design
Production of graphic materials and digital outreach actions to expand the project's reach and consolidate its audience.
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€ 150 | |
| Total | € 2.550 | € 3.000 |
Radio Sentido is an independent cultural project born from the desire to deepen spaces of listening, encounter, and reflection that already exist in the territory, and to amplify cultural processes that often remain outside mainstream visibility. It is a platform for the creation and dissemination of cultural content, rooted in La Comarca (the Piriápolis area and surrounding coastal towns), with an open and outward-looking projection.
The project articulates different layers: a cultural podcast as its central axis, territorial actions, and occasional in-person gatherings that bring music, thought, community, and lived experience into dialogue. It does not seek to produce content for fast consumption, but rather to enable time and space for conversation, active listening, and critical thinking.
This initiative emerges as a natural evolution of previous experiences in radio work, cultural production, and community activation in the territory. Between 2021 and 2022, Natalie Rigaud hosted and produced La Nave, a weekly program on independent radio that functioned as a laboratory for conversation, music, and grounded thinking.
More recently, the process of creating the pilot event Germinador Sentido made it possible to condense and connect many of these practices, revealing the need for a more continuous, accessible, and sustainable format over time. Along this path, radio —in the form of a territorially rooted cultural podcast— emerged not as an abstract idea, but as a conscious decision: a way to sustain encounter, listening, and community beyond physical presence, while caring for the material conditions and the meaning of the project.
The podcast is structured into different blocks and sections that address music, creative processes, community life, local cultural scenes, and the intersections between art, experience, and ways of understanding the world. Conversations are built from situated knowledge, direct experience, and horizontal exchange, without rigid academic hierarchies.
Recordings are made in real conditions, incorporating the soundscape of the territory as part of the listening experience. The support received will allow for the gradual improvement of technical recording and editing conditions.
The project is committed to encounter, critical thinking, and community as everyday practices of care and sensitive resistance in the face of fragmentation, acceleration, and the growing coarseness of contemporary life.
Main characteristics
Independent cultural podcast with territorial grounding.
Production based on sensitive listening, conversation, and critical thinking.
Integration of music, creative processes, community life, and local cultural scenes.
Inclusion of local and regional voices: artists, creators, cultural managers, and community actors.
Recordings in real conditions, incorporating the soundscape as part of the experience.
Self-managed and flexible project, designed to be sustained over time.
Objectives
To deepen spaces of listening and reflection rooted in the territory.
To amplify voices, cultural processes, and local scenes.
To strengthen cultural and community networks.
To promote critical and sensitive listening in response to contemporary overstimulation.
To develop an honest and viable model of cultural production over time.
Motivation
Radio Sentido arises from a personal and collective need: to create and sustain a space where music, art, and lived experience can be thought through without haste, without spectacle, and without rigid hierarchies. The project is born from the desire to accompany existing cultural processes, generate conversation, and enable deeper listening in times of fragmentation and acceleration.
Target audience
People interested in culture, music, and critical reflection.
Artists, creators, and cultural managers.
Local communities that value encounter and cultural life.
Listeners seeking sensitive, situated, and non-standardized content.
Previous experience
Radio Sentido is driven by Natalie Rigaud, a Uruguayan singer with over 20 years of artistic trajectory between Uruguay and Brazil. Her work is centered on music as a sensitive and community-based practice, combining MPB, jazz, soul, Uruguayan music, and Latin American traditions.
Between 2021 and 2022, she hosted and produced La Nave, a two-hour weekly program on independent radio, broadcast live and featuring in-person interviews. This experience was key in developing an approach to radio based on conversation, attentive listening, and the intersection of music, thought, and lived experience, even under precarious material conditions.
Radio Sentido takes up and updates this experience from a more autonomous, territorially grounded position, aligned with current production conditions.
Team
The project is initially sustained as a solo initiative by Natalie Rigaud. Collaborations will be activated organically and in a situated manner, through invited voices, artists, cultural managers, and community references from the territory, without rigid structures or commitments that cannot be sustained over time.
Radio Sentido promotes gender equality and an anti-racist perspective, giving visibility to cultural expressions, voices, and memories.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.
