The Story as Walkabout
Smartphones and other gadgets have detached our listening experiences from the radio, and are making another kind of attachment possible - to where the stories actually take place.
Smartphones and other gadgets have detached our listening experiences from the radio, and are making another kind of attachment possible - to where the stories actually take place.
Narrative becomes a path through a landscape, geography becomes your editor. Krissy Clark and Pejk Malinovski explore existing projects and further possibilities for how place-based storytelling can reveal the hidden stories that surround us.
Find links to the projects referenced in this session.
Featuring
Krissy Clark is the senior reporter for Marketplace's Wealth & Poverty desk, and founder of Storieseverywhere.org, a location-based mobile-phone storytelling project. Her stories and documentaries have aired on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Freakonomics Radio, BBC and American RadioWorks. Her sound-walks have been exhibited by The New Museum's Festival of Ideas in NYC in collaboration with StoryCorps, and at San Francisco's Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.
Pejk Malinovski is a freelance radio producer, sound artist and poet based in Brooklyn.