Format: text-sound listening piece
Technique: radio show montage
Place: Czech Radio Vltava
w/ Tereza Lišková
Year: 2024

The convoluted space-time of the city is a retreat for and home to a wide variety of non-human entities. Night moths, big-eared bats, shy does, small spiders as well as birds of prey co-create, along with people, a complex symbiotic structure where life – in its diversity – is at stake. This text-sound composition is like a radiophonic gesture focused on the urban environment in relation to its denizens from the animal kingdom. It was created on the occasion of the UNESCO World Environment Day, which falls on 5 June. Besides scientists’ and experts’ discourses on the topic, you will also hear some compositions from the Location Podcast project, which is held periodically by the Euroradio Ars Acustica group.

Voices:
Tereza Špinková, contemporary art theoretician
Dagmar Zieglerová, Nyctalus environmental centre
Helena Rothová, Czech Arachnological Society
Jan Šumpich, curator of National Museum’s butterfly collection
Josef Holeš, chief forester of the City of Prague Forests
Jan Grünwald, urban ecologist, Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Field recordings and music compositions by:
Sara Pinheiro, Marija Pečnik Kvesić, Agustín Genoud, Benjamin Kotík, Martin Pelan, Mark Karpilovksij, Margherita Brillada, Dorothea Schürch, Antoine Läng, Jonáš Gruska, Margherita Brillada, Jean-Philippe Rameau (performed by Aik Shin Tana and Martin Bernstein), Ladislav Železný, Polina Khatsenko.