<div dir="ltr">The radio consultant Sean Ross has taken a listen here: <a href="https://media.info/radio/review/first-listen-radio-garden-a-world-of-radio-exotica">https://media.info/radio/review/first-listen-radio-garden-a-world-of-radio-exotica</a><div><br></div><div>I'd say, incidentally, that this project is eminently suited for community radio, rather than for the big commercials (who are relatively conspicuous by their absence).</div><div><br></div><div>//j</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 at 06:03 CMA-L <<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Source: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/dec/16/tune-in-to-worlds-radio-stations-radiogarden" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Guardian 16th December 2016</a><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Even in the digital age, it’s an experience familiar to many: scrolling through a radio tuner, jumping from crackled voices to clear-cut sound, shipping forecasts to pop tunes, in the hunt for a station you want to listen to. <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Now, you can experience this on a global scale, hopping thousands of the world’s radio stations. Launched this week, <a href="http://Radio.Garden" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Radio.Garden</a> is an interactive website that presents Earth covered in tiny dots, each representing a radio station that can be tuned into at the click of a button.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">With global tensions high, anger at the political establishment and fake-news dominating social media discussions, it feels like there has never been a better time to enable people to reflect on human communication on an international level. Radio.Garden allows the world to be explored through its sounds, and while some seem foreign, many seem familiar.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">At the time of writing, Classic FM Sofia is beaming out a romantic symphony, Mali Jet is blasting out fast-paced hi-life, and over on the west coast of the US Rockabilly Radio is, well, living up to its name. <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">More: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/dec/16/tune-in-to-worlds-radio-stations-radiogarden" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/dec/16/tune-in-to-worlds-radio-stations-radiogarden</a><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>Delegates to the Community Media Conference in September were treated by Caroline Mitchell to a sneak preview of <a href="http://radio.garden/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://radio.garden/</a> by Caroline Mitchell of <a href="http://www.transnationalradio.org/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Transnational Radio Encounters</a>.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">\\<br class="gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_4793169922933574099gmail_signature gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Community Media Association<br class="gmail_msg">-- <br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Canstream Internet Radio & Video<br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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