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26/08/2025

Danish audio-makers - this looks like a brilliant place to learn and experiment...

14/08/2025

Memories entangle with the trees as we wander into the forest... 'Forest Is' by Marta Medvešek for Radio Slovenija is today's Radio Atlas podcast.

Listen here: https://www.radioatlas.org/forest-is/

Artwork by Hana Medvešek

31/07/2025

Documentary recordings of laughter musically interweave in this imagined scene by Stéphane Borrel. The Elders (Les Anciens) is today's Radio Atlas podcast https://www.radioatlas.org/the-elders/

Part of a larger electroacoustic (acousmatic) work by Stéphane Borrel called Laughing Tonalities (Anthologie du rire). The work uses as its essential sound material the laughter from recordings of three hundred invited participants.

Stéphane writes, “The musical writing – based on very precise sound selection, manipulation and editing – brings into focus the timbres, the rhythms and the pitches of this material. In addition, it takes into account a more evocative side which consists of recreating “plausible” scenes or portraits that highlight the different laughter types. Les Anciens (The Elders) brings together two people who, in reality, have never met.

Behind the touching scene, the couple’s good humour, their half-hearted understanding, we must also feel the laughter at the pain, almost a nasty cough; at the end, his breathing stops, then her breathing – insects and birds remain. This is one of the pieces from the Laughing Tonalities cycle which deals with the theme of ‘ages of life’.

I probably won’t choose… but if I could choose, I would like to end up like them: sitting outside on a beautiful evening, ‘comforted by the insensibility of nature’, as Milan Kundera writes, ‘because insensibility is consoling; the world of insensibility is the world outside human life; it is eternity; it is the sea gone with the sun [« c’est la mer allée avec le soleil » Arthur Rimbaud]. […] the gently inhuman beauty of the world before or after the passage of men.'”

25/07/2025

Delighted to see Radio Atlas nominated in the British Podcast Awards inaugural Video Innovation category this year!

Featuring work from Radijo dokumentika, Rūta Dambravaitė, Inga Janiulytė-Temporin, Qing Hu, Ka-Young Park, Dimitris Roidis, Joyce de Badts, Daniel Semo, Kato Vanackere, Hrvoje Korbar and Marija Pečnik Kvesić

Subtitles by Eleanor McDowall, web angel Charlie Shackleton https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98j8eepjq2o

23/07/2025

Worried Waters of the War: Ukrainian Dreamscapes of 2022 by Yevhenii Poliakov is today's Radio Atlas podcast - https://www.radioatlas.org/worried-waters-ukrainian-dreamscapes-of-2022/

During the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion, water flowed through Ukrainian dreams. Recurring rains, floods and images of the seaside from the audio archive at the Center for Urban History inspired Yevhenii Poliakov to make a collage.

“We learned to live against the current. Now, when we, the survivors, our relatives and friends, are reaching the other shore, the premonitions from our dreams become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The word ‘victory’ sounds too noisy. The silence that falls after is deafening since we are afraid of what comes next.”

Yevhenii Poliakov is an independent artist and researcher from Lviv, Ukraine

04/06/2025

A conversation grows from a chance encounter on a train... He Called Me His Typhoon by Mattias Wallenius is today's Radio Atlas podcast https://www.radioatlas.org/he-called-me-his-typhoon/

06/03/2025

Thrilled to see Radijo dokumentika's Coming Out featured in Vulture's Best Podcasts of 2025 (So Far) list!

If you've not yet heard it, listen on the Radio Atlas podcast

Including a series that is as gorgeous as it is painful.

22/02/2025

"This has to be one of the most beautiful, tender and heartbreaking love stories ever..."

https://www.irishnews.com/entertainment/radio-review-a-beautiful-heartbreaking-story-of-forbidden-love-EYU32EB2RFFY5JHXYK5GD4GIZ4/

Great to see this Irish News review of Radijo dokumentika's 'Coming Out'. Listen on the Radio Atlas podcast or on the LRT website https://www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

16/02/2025

"By far the most moving and absorbing piece of audio I heard last week..."

Wonderful to see Radijo dokumentika's 'Coming Out' reviewed in this morning's Observer!

Listen here: https://www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/15/the-week-in-audio-coming-out-lithuania-gay-wedding-documentary-the-great-post-office-trial-nick-wallis-the-teen-commandments-sara-cox-clare-hamilton

A Lithuanian gay romance that will move you to tears; Nick Wallis continues his dogged coverage of the Post Office inquiry; and it’s early days for Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton’s new parenting podcast

10/02/2025

Vitalius and Albinas have been together for 52 years. As they grow old and Albinas’ memory slowly fades, Vitalius is tired of hiding and decides to tell their life story publicly for the first time. This documentary, created for LRT's Radijo dokumentika series, tenderly unspools the years they've spent together.

'Coming Out' is today's Radio Atlas podcast - https://www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

Lithuania currently does not recognise either same s*x marriages or civil unions. After 'Coming Out' aired on Lithuanian radio, its online version quickly became the most shared and streamed episode in the show's history. It reopened a public debate on human rights and led to activists organising a symbolic humanist wedding ceremony for Vitalius and Albinas. It was the first time Vitalius held Albinas' hand in public. Twenty-one thousand people signed the certificate as witnesses – a document which Vitalius has now handed over to the national museum.

Produced by Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin

21/01/2025

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