Want to listen to music but not sure what to put on? Interested in hearing a radio broadcast from the other side of the globe? Originally featured in our 1-20-2017 issue, Radio Garden remains one of our all-time favorite resources.
Radio Garden is an extraordinary website that allows visitors to listen to over 8,000 live radio stations from around the world. Created by Jonathan Puckey with financial support from the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, Radio Garden utilizes a number of open-sourced technologies and the contributions of radio stations from around the globe. As Puckey explains in an interview with NPR, the project emerged when the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision approached him about creating a museum exhibition for a recent, multi-university European research project called Transnational Radio Encounters. Puckey and his team decided to create this website instead. By clicking the above link, visitors will automatically be taken to the live portion of this website and will be directed to the radio station closest to their current location. From there, visitors can explore other stations around the globe via an interactive map. When visitors select cities with multiple participating stations, a list will appear on the right side of the browser, allowing visitors to choose which station to listen to. By selecting the History tab or the Jingles tab, visitors can explore historic radio broadcasts and station jingles from across time and space. Finally, the Stories tab features a number of moving interviews with individuals about the role of radio in their lives.
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