Works for Radio: Listening Cinema

The Lake Radio presents the Listening Cinema, where an audience sits in complete darkness for a shared listening experience of selected radio pieces.

Between each piece, presenters Jan Høgh Stricker and Frederik Heidemann appear as a small light is turned on to provide context and explanations between each piece. This setup transforms radio from a solitary activity into a communal and focused listening experience.

Over the past decade in Copenhagen, such communal listening events have become popular. Audiences gather to laugh, discuss the pieces, talk to producers, bond, and make connections in a shared space. However, the radio medium lacks formal institutions to provide spaces for these kinds of communal and focused experiences. This absence may significantly impact how radio is supported, developed, written about, and critically viewed.

By bringing audiences together physically to engage with radio pieces, events like the Listening Cinema raise awareness of radio as an art form and showcase the diverse and powerful pieces that have been created throughout time.