Radio Garden - interactive listenable radio world map
18Too cool to not share with y’all - an awesome world map that you can browse around by radio station. Scroll the globe and take a listen!
Currently listening to live radio in Sofia, Bulgaria. Off to Japan next!
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Listening to American pop on the radio
station in Suva, Fiji. This is a broadcast station that also streams.
T-Pain and Rihanna.
Bookmarked!
No streaming stations from Antarctica.
@f00l and none from North Korea. I expected to hear propaganda but didn’t get any. Perhaps the citizens are not allowed to have radios because of the chance of picking up information from outside North Korea. IDK
@cengland0
I think the station or its fans have to nominate their station to get into this app. App has only a small percentage of streaming stations. Also none in Greenland.
Perhaps N Korea needs a media strategy guru.
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About Radio Garden
By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. Radio Garden allows listeners to explore processes of broadcasting and hearing identities across the entire globe. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away – or using local community radio to make and enrich new homes.
In the section Live, you can explore a world or radio as it is happening right now. Tune into any place on the globe: what sounds familiar? What sounds foreign? Where would you like to travel and what sounds like ‘home’?
In the section on History you can tune into clips from throughout radio history that show how radio has tried to cross borders. How have people tried to translate their nations into the airwaves? What did they say to the world? How do they engage in conversation across linguistic and geographical barriers?
Click over to Jingles for a world-wide crash course in station identification. How do stations signal within a fraction of a second what kind of programmes you are likely to hear? How do they project being joyful, trustworthy, or up to the minute?
Then stop and listen to radio Stories where listeners past and present tell how they listen beyond their walls. How do they imagine the voices and sounds from around the globe? How do they use radio to make themselves at home in the world?
Radio Garden incorporates results from the international research project Transnational Radio Encounters directed by Golo Föllmer at Martin-Luther University Halle, in co-operation with the Universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark, London Metropolitan and the University of Sunderland in the UK, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The project was funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) from 2013-2016.
Concept & Production by Studio Puckey in collaboration with Moniker.
Technology & live section by Studio Puckey.
Design, UI & UX by Studio Puckey in collaboration with Phillip Bührer.
Radio Garden is developed in co-ordination with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Enquiries:
Mail contact@puckey.studio
Twitter @studiopuckey
If you want to submit your radio station to Radio Garden, please send the following information to submissions@puckey.studio:
Station name
Station website
Streaming MP3 URL
City, Country of radio station studio
They are missing a lot of streaming stations, but this is a very nice interface.
Nice interface but I would like a couple minor changes.
Add a volume control. I keep my speaker volume up all the way and use the interfaces of each program to reduce the volume. The current control is audio on or off.
Put some country demarcation lines. I could find most countries without them but there were a couple hard ones to find without those lines.
@cengland0 I really wanted a volume control too. And more stations worldwide - there were multiple times more stations in Bulgaria than in Japan…
Fun to browse around though, and a little interesting to hear so much US pop music on almost every station I listened to.
@luvche21 When I heard that US pop music in other countries, I wondered if they actually pay the royalties on it. I understand, every time a radio station in the USA plays a song, the copyright holder gets a small token amount. Does that happen if it’s played on the radio in another country? I doubt it.
@cengland0 I’m sure some countries and stations do, but little old station in Dobrich, Bulgaria probably didn’t get proper permissions to broadcast it I would assume.
I still have some knock off Ray Bans from that country that I’m sure didn’t get permission from to sell those. Or those Rolex watches that were $3 too…
I too listen to Leo Laporte
Great link! Thanks!
/giphy world radio
I find it hilarious that the first listing in my area is the traffic station. Definitely niche listening if you aren’t here (but absolutely vital if you are. Especially if you have to commute into the city and by the time you hit the mess it’s too late to find another route).
Sounds a lot like Radiooooo.com. The major difference is that Radiooooo.com plays popular songs by decade and country, and not radio stations.
Was up all night Monday night upgrading servers and listening around the world. There is this weird station out by itself in South Africa that must be the only station in the area. I judged that by the three songs I heard at what would have been 10 to 11 am their time… hard dubstep, something that sounded like american pop but was entirely unfamiliar (could well be the #1 song in the US this week, I wouldn’t know), and what sounded like Al Green singing “How can you mend a broken heart”. I thought that kind of diversity only existed in maybe college radio, and maybe not even there anymore (and there not with anything you’ve heard of outside the college radio scene).
I just turned it back on to get the link to post here and the genre-jumping is still going strong. Current pop, your love keeps lifting me, and Judas Priest all in a row. It’s at http://radio.garden/live/hennenman/ndstream/
It’s a lot like riding in the car with someone who changes the station all the time without your input
Uh, if you want to listen to more stations around the world, just use the location finder on tunein.com It plays just about every station that streams. When you pair that up with a Sonos system, the sounds are fantastic.