Transnational Evening of Sounds Radio Program

Promoting social inclusion and agency in later life through sonic remembrance

This series of radio programmes focuses on audio memories and reminiscence. During the two to three hours of broadcasting, a kind of community (electro-acoustic) is formed, consisting of the radio audience, the elderly people interviewed in advance for the radio programmes, the radio presenters and the experts. Although in the past, reaching the "fourth age" only meant that an elderly person had become frail and dependent, we are convinced that this does not necessarily mean that he or she is no longer relevant in society. People can also move back and forth between the third and fourth ages. The series and the workshops that precede it will promote the social inclusion and empowerment of people at this stage of life, the oldest groups of radio listeners of all.

Contributors:

Heikki Uimonen, Principal Investigator of European Evening of Sounds, WP6, University of Eastern Finland

Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä, Project Manager of European Evening of Sounds, WP6, University of Eastern Finland, Jukka Mikkola, Project producer of European Evening of Sounds, WP6, University of Eastern Finland

Experts:

Pertti Ylikojola (Producer, Finnish Broadcasting Company, Audio), Meri Kytö (University Teacher, soundscape researcher, University of Turku)

Collaborators:

Pertti Ylikojola (Producer, Finnish Broadcasting Company, Audio); Barbara Hribar, (B-Air); Saška Rakef Perko (RTVSLO); Gregor Pirš (RTVSLO & Ars Acustica Group, EBU); Nikoleta Dojćinović (RTS); Marijana Gojković (RTS); Ljubinka Dobrilović (RTS); Giuseppe Gavazza (CRESSON); Nicolas Tixier (CRESSON); Nicolas Rémy (CRESSON); Julien McOisans (CRESSON); Mojca Delač (RTVSLO); Damir Godjevac (RTVSLO); Darja Hlavka (RTVSLO); Bojana Šaljič Podešva; Rajko Muršič (University of Ljubljana); Ales Ogrič (RTVSLO); Luka Hvalc (RTVSLO); Primož Trdan (RTVSLO); Anamarija Štukelj (RTSLO); Tina Ogrin (RTVSLO); Sabrina Povšič Štimec (RTVSLO); Meri Kytö (University Teacher, soundscape researcher, University of Turku); Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro (Radio Teatar); Carehomes in Finland / Slovenia / Serbia TBA.

External financers:

Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland

Activities timeline (draft, TBA):

Workshop (on-line), 24.3.2022

Workshop, Ljubljana, at RTV SLO, 17.5.2022

Fieldwork in Serbia, Slovenia and Finland:

Preliminary interviews 1.4.--30.7.2022

Personal interviews & group / individual interviews in carehomes 1.7.2022--30.4.2023

Radio broadcasts:

Evening of Sounds, Finnish Broadcasting Company Radio1, 23.10.

Evenings of Sounds, Radio Television Slovenia TBA 2022-23)

Radio Television Serbia TBA 2023

Interactive Sound Map (under construction), meanwhile you can send sounds and descriptions of what they mean to you in MP3 format to the e-mail address heikki.uimonen@uef.fi