by Raviv Ganchrow + Carsten Stabenow
broadcast premiere, August 29, 2026, Deutschlandradio Kultur
This audio montage consists of raw location recordings, with no added audio effects, tracing a research journey through Chile’s southernmost regions (Tierra del Fuego and Navarino Island) to the decommissioned radio station at Wulaia Bay.
The piece weaves together diverse auditory traces from above and below the waterline, including the murmurs of weather and foliage, the acoustics of marine habitats, the whistling of piers, ground electricity, signals of satellites, earth-ionosphere echoes, reverberations of culturally modified trees and environmentally-situated linguistics. File tagging voice annotations and closed caption titles provide waymarks in diverse atmospheres and meandering encounters at earth’s southern expanse.
Terra Ignota participants, Radiales research manifestation: Florencia Curci, Nicolas Spencer, Robert Carracedo Recasens, Claudia Augustat, Iván Flores. Commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur / Cashmere Radio 2025, thanks to Jasmine Guffond. Special Thanks to Carlos Valladares, Andrés Riuz, Cristian Munoz and Miguel (WhaleSound collaborators / shipmates), Jorge Gibbons (UMAG, Punta Arenas, CL), Alberto Serrano (Museo Territorial Yagán Usi – Martín González Calderón, Navarino, CL), Miguel Cáceres (Río Seco Museum of Natural History, Punta Arenas, CL), Alfredo Prieto, Claudia Gonzales, Lily Riquelme, Luis Gonzales, Federico Stäger, Käte Hamburger Kolleg inherit heritage in transformation (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), COMAPA, IDEAL, DAP and all our supporters, family and friends.