The radio piece Navigating Radiales – A Sonic Journey Through Southernmost Chile had its broadcast premiere on August 29, 2025, on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
The audio montage by Raviv Ganchrow and Carsten Stabenow 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, satellite signals, earth–ionosphere echoes, reverberations of culturally modified trees, and environmentally situated linguistics.
You can listen to the piece in the Mediathek of Deutschlandradio (with a German introduction) or on the Terra Ignota website, which offers a more experimental player where file-tagging, voice annotations, and closed-caption titles provide waymarks through diverse atmospheres and meandering encounters at Earth’s southern expanse.
Navigating Radiales was commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Cashmere Radio, 2025 thanks to Jasmine Guffond.
Terra Ignota participants, Radiales research manifestation: Florencia Curci, Nicolas Spencer, Robert Carracedo Recasens, Claudia Augustat, Iván Flores. 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.