Podcast series on the research project »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio Art« published

Radio has accompanied the everyday lives of people all over the world since the 1920s. Radio enriches our knowledge, reflects society and politics and provides entertainment. But it also disseminates propaganda and disinformation or spreads messages of resistance. The podcast »Listening to the World – 100 years of Radio Art« linvites listeners to look back at 100 years of different radiophonic listening cultures and to listen across national borders – connecting experiences and stories about radio transculturally.

Between 2023 and 2024, Professor Nathalie Singer traveled with Frederike Moormann and Lefteris Krysalis to three different regions of the world: to Montevideo in South America, Sagada in Southeast Asia and Johannesburg in southern Africa. Invited by the Goethe-Institut and supported by the local curators Florencia Curci, meLê yamomo and Masimba Hwati, they each organized five-day Bauhaus.listening.workshops with various sound experts.

These people and their stories can now be heard in the podcast »Listening to the World – 100 years of radio art«. With them, the history of radio and listening is told in six episodes- with interviews, sounds and performances from the workshops and the artists involved in the project. They can be listened to in full length on the interactive website »Transcultural Listening Map« at listeningmap.de. Of course, you can also find all episodes in the ARD Audiothek and wherever podcasts are available.

You can listen to the podcast here: https://www.hoerspielundfeature.de/listening-to-the-world-1-6-radionetzwerke-und-machtstrukturen-100.html

About the project
»Listening to the World - 100 Years of Radio Art« is a project by the Goethe-Institut, the Chair of Experimental Radio at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is supported by the Goethe-Institut and the »New European Bauhaus« project of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The development of the »Transcultural Listening Map« is supported by the Creative Fund of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Listening to the World – 100 years of Radio Art
A podcast by Nathalie Singer, Lefteris Krysalis and Frederike Moormann
Host: Yana Adu
Curatorial collaboration: Florencia Curci, Masimba Hwati, meLê Yamomo
With: Riar Rizaldi, Alejo Duque, Dieter Daniels, Naledi Chai, Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Tendayi Chakanyuka, Cynthia Marangwanda, Guely Morato, Victor Mazon Gardoqui, Masimba Hwati, Florencia Curci, Duduzile Masuku, Ntone Edjabe, Gwen Gaongen, La Voz Indigena, Nesindano Namises, LaVerne C. de la Peña, Reginald Tinavapi, Siviwe James, Rani Jambak, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, meLê yamomo
Composition: Guely Morató, Victor Mazon Gardoqui, Rani Jambak, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, Cynthia Marangwanda, Damien Marcus, Alejo Duque, Riar Rizaldi
Assistant Director: Paul Haeberlin
Mixing: Michael Kube
Project lead: Nathalie Singer, Petra Roggel, Marcus Gammel
Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur/Bauhaus-Universität Weimar/ Goethe-Institut/ Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2024