So that's been great.ĬHANG: Jonathan Puckey helped design the Radio Garden website. I have, like, a list of, like, 600 emails that I still need to, like, run through this weekend. We've been receiving, like, copious amounts of requests of radio stations to have their station put on the website, which is really surprising. PUCKEY: But they seem to really be getting into it. Right now, we're sort of going viral in Brazil and actually Saudi Arabia and actually countries where we didn't even have that many radio stations or content from those places. We launched on Monday, and it's just been going all over the globe. PUCKEY: Yeah, this was really surprising. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Laughter) Seven-ninety, WAKY.ĬHANG: The Radio Garden website - it's less than a week old, right? And it's already been shared like crazy on social media. PUCKEY: Yeah, well - because we were working together with this research group and one of the research projects was research actually into the world of jingles. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Seventy-seven WABC.ĬHANG: (Laughter) That is from 1961, New York, obviously prerecorded. So besides the live broadcast, there are a couple other buttons here. Like I tried, for example, to find San Francisco the other day and actually had a hard time pinpointing it because I'm so used to actually seeing a map and sort of knowing exactly where I need to go - really enjoy this sort of fact of sort of getting lost.ĬHANG: Right. Like, you don't know exactly where you're going. PUCKEY: Yes, I really like the idea that you can get lost. And it makes the world feel smaller to me by being able to navigate it so quickly with a mouse. I feel like I'm peeking through the window at someone else's party. UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST #2: (Singing in foreign language).ĬHANG: I love that. Like, right now, I'm just going to click on this dot in the middle of Asia - oh, it's Afghanistan. And you're not, like, busy with where you are exactly.ĬHANG: I like that idea. And we kind of wanted to, like, replicate this sort of idea that, yeah, you're kind of traveling in your mind as you listen to this radio. Like, you would tune into - for example, in the Netherlands, you would tune into Hilversum. In the past when you used to listen to radio, you would even have, like, the city names on the dials. And we kind of wanted to reflect that idea. It's a signal that travels as far as the signal strength goes. PUCKEY: Like, radio itself, of course, doesn't know about borders. You know, it's just, like, a satellite image. On this globe, you don't see any state borders in the U.S., and you don't see any country designations in the rest of the globe. And we actually quite quickly came up with the idea of making a website instead of an installation.ĬHANG: You know, it is interesting. And this research project is about radio that crosses borders and radio of different languages. So a year ago, we were invited by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to actually come up with an installation for their museum for a research project called Transnational Radio Encounters. Jonathan Puckey joins us from Amsterdam now.ĬHANG: So how did this project come about? Radio Garden was designed by Jonathan Puckey in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST #1: (Singing in foreign language).ĬHANG: It's basically an awesome real-time adventure to hear voices and music from around the planet. Now I'm going to scoot on over to Europe. How about here? I'm just going up to Seoul.ĬHANG: All right. Like - OK, let's just spin around over here.ĬHANG: All right. You spin it around with your mouse and click on dots to play live radio broadcasts from around the world. It's like catnip for radio-obsessed people like me.
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