Andrea Chamorro was awarded a project in the 2026 Jayma Seed Fund, in the category "Enhancing the Value of Heritage and Local Memories." Her research is called "Braiding the Wind: Sonorities and Listening in the Ethnographic Collection of the San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum."

CMUS's principal researcher wrote the following: "This is a proposal that seeks to register, activate, and disseminate the collection of ethnographic aerophones and membranophones from the Tarapacá highlands, held by the San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum, as vehicles of memory, sounds, social relationships, and gestures. The project involves a work process made up of: characterization (material record sheet); graphic and audiovisual documentation; preventive conservation; and museographic activation, through a video documentary (15 to 20 minutes) to be disseminated in collaboration with the Aricadoc Film Festival, along with mediation-creation activities and community engagement with elementary school students, practitioners, and sound communities. These latter activities will seek to bring out sensory, emotional, and reflective impressions in response to the Azapa Museum's organological collections, understanding heritage objects as materials that trigger meanings, memories, listening, and collective creation.

"In sum," she continues, "the project aims to strengthen the bond between museum, university, and community, highlighting the value of Andean sound-musical heritage as a living practice interwoven with corporealities, gender, memories, and complex processes of sociocultural transformation."