Radio has been a medium of listening for more than 100 years – worldwide. This is the subject of the six-part podcast »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio Art«. All six episodes were broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and can now be heard in the ARD Audiothek and wherever podcasts are available.
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
