Radio Garden
Here’s something off of any topic I might imagine, but still so wonderful that it simply must be passed on: Radio Garden. Its superbly programmed interface begins with a satellite imagery map of the world; stretchable, shrinkable, easily rotated, and dotted with thousands of little green spots. Each of the dots represents at least one radio station somewhere in the world. (Large dots represent locations with multiple radio stations.) Use your mouse or your finger to center a circle around a dot and you will hear the radio station (or stations) at that location. The middle of the Amazon rain forest? The Faroe Islands? Bangui, Central African Republic? Netanya, Israel? Jenin, Palestine? WPKN, Bridgeport, CT? Yes, yes, yes, and yes!
You will be stunned at what you can find and what you can hear. Radio Garden is a great gift to the world, originally commissioned as an exhibition project by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. And an additional tip of my hat to Amsterdam’s Studio Pukey & Moniker, the responsible design studio.
Sydney Z. Spiesel, PhD MD is a pediatrician in Woodbridge, CT and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine