Re-Imagined Radio

Who We Are, What We Do

Re-Imagined Radio is a community-facing creative research and performance project, led by John F. Barber, that explores radio storytelling by re-thinking and re-creating sound-based storytelling to encourage narrative potentials and community listening experiences.

Re-Imagined Radio begins with the fundamental components of radio storytelling. Sounds of dialogue. Sounds for context and/or effect. And, sounds of music. We draw these sounds from a spectrum of genres: dramas, comedies, oral and aural histories, documentaries, fictions, soundscapes and sonic journeys, radio and sound art. Sound(s) as the storyteller engage the mind's eye. Spark the imagination.

Re-Imagined Radio has a mission: To promote community engagement through radio storytelling. What we learn from our efforts helps understand how future forms of storytelling might be informed by our embrace of digital technology. Desired results: radio art, transmission art, community art. Radio as never before seen, or heard. Radio, an old medium, providing new opportunities for 21st century storytelling, inside your mind.

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PSA

Re-Imagined Radio appreciates the diversity of listeners and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity of their ears. As best possible we provide transcripts with each episode so that listeners with different hearing abilities can follow along. We acknowledge the debt we owe to previous and contemporary radio artists and hope our curation and stewardship of their artifacts and efforts will bring positive ratings.