Binaural Radio Rural: A podcast around rural sounds and archives

About Binaural Radio Rural: A podcast around rural sounds and archives

Binaural Nodar is a rural based sound and media arts organization located in the rural Viseu Dão Lafões region (Portugal), where since 2006 have been hosted over 180 sound and media arts projects developed in close connection with the local geographical and social contexts. Binaural Nodar is also a sound art collective that produces its own pieces, particularly those created by Luís Costa, Maile Colbert, Rui Costa, Ana Rodríguez and Manuela Barile.

Publisher

Binaural Nodar

Category

society & culture

Language

pt

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Feb 2020

Latest episode

29 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Mar 2026

   Binaural Radio Rural #33 - Série Tramontana: Comuns, Comunals, Comunales

   Continuamos a apresentar uma série de podcasts de Binaural Radio Rural integrada no projeto Rede Tramontana, co-financiado pelo programa Europa Criativa, que consiste numa cooperação entre onze organizações culturais de zonas montanhosas de Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália, Roménia, Polónia e Albânia, todas elas a trabalhar na intersecção entre a investigação etnográfica e as práticas artísticas contemporâneas. Ao longo dos episódios desta série de podcasts, abordamos de forma criativa temas rurais como o agropastorismo, a transumância, as manifestações e simbologias da água, a mudança social e o seu impacto na paisagem e na produção e consumo de alimentos, a migração ucraniana para as zonas rurais da Europa, entre outros. Este episódio, realizado em coprodução entre a Binaural Nodar, a AEPGA e a Sincròniques, uma organização cultural da comunidade valenciana, consiste numa viagem ao longo do tempo e do espaço sobre como se desenvolveu o espírito comunitário, desde os alvores das civilizações mediterrânicas, até ao sentido atual da gestão coletiva de montes pelas comunidades de baldios, viagem essa que foi trilhada a partir das reflexões de vários especialistas ibéricos, assim como pelo acompanhamento de uma experiência concreta de revitalização de baldios, em curso na freguesia do Gafanhão, pertencente ao concelho de Castro Daire na região portuguesa de Viseu Dão Lafões. Entrevistas conduzidas por Luís Costa e Ana Rodríguez Entrevistas a Ramón Puig, Miguel Nóvoa, Paulo Quintela, Emília Pereira, Arlindo Pereira, Maria de Fátima Camões e Fernando Camões. Paisagens sonoras, masterização, textos e voz de Luís Costa Texto adicional de Félix Rodrigo Mora, extraído do seu livro El Comunal de 2022 Peça musical de Sara Fevereiro.

2. 

   13 Mar 2026

   Binaural Radio Rural #32 - Tramontana Series: Beehiving

   We continue to present a series of Binaural Radio Rural podcast that is part of the Creative Europe funded project, Tramontana Network, which consists in a cooperation between eleven mountain-based cultural organizations from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Poland and Albania that all work in the intersection between ethnographic research and contemporary artistic practices. Throughout the episodes of this podcast series, we are creatively addressing rural-based subjects like agropastoralism, transhumance, water manifestations and symbologies, social change and its impact on landscape and food production and consumption, the Ukrainian migration to rural areas in Europe and more. In this episode we present “Beehiving”, a collective sound piece created by Luis Costa, Rui Costa, and Manuela Barile for the Italian cultural organization Stazione di Topolò, in the border between Udine province and Slovenia. It was initially presented in 2010 as part of the 24-hour live and web event “To Be Continued,” which brought together works from artists worldwide reflecting on health, physical and mental well-being, disease prevention, and medical education. This sound journey explores the aural and symbolic world of bees and beekeepers in the rural Portugal, emphasizing both the anthropological and the metaphorical significance of the hive as a functioning community. The sound piece immerses listeners in the natural rhythms and hums of the beehive, in the voices of beekeepers, addressing the complexities of the world of beekeeping, and in electronic and vocal experimentations, metaphorically suggesting a balance between nature and human care. The activity of bees and their complex social behavior serve as a sonic analogy for the interconnectedness of physical and psychological health. Through this auditory experience, the piece proposes a deeper understanding of the ancient practice of beekeeping and its relevance to contemporary concerns about well-being and environmental harmony. Medieval texts frequently mention beekeeping as a model of social organization. Authors such as Albertus Magnus and Hildegard of Bingen wrote about the hive, noting the division of labor and cooperation among bees as a reflection of ideal community structures. In his treatise "De Animalibus," Albertus Magnus described the bees’ roles and their collective effort, drawing a comparison to human society’s need for order and collaboration. Similarly, Hildegard’s writings connected the harmony within the hive to spiritual and social health, suggesting that the success of a community depends on the care and responsibility shared by all its members. By engaging with the traditions of Portuguese apiarists through this sound piece, listeners are invited to reflect on how community can inform our understanding of social cohesion today. Just as bees construct their hive with precision, cooperation, and resilience, human societies require attention, mutual support, and a shared sense of purpose to thrive.

3. 

   20 Dec 2025

   Binaural Radio Rural #31 - Tramontana Series: Thermal Sonic Immersion

   We continue to present a series of Binaural Radio Rural podcast that is part of the Creative Europe funded project, Tramontana Network, which consists in a cooperation between eleven mountain-based cultural organizations from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Poland and Albania that all work in the intersection between ethnographic research and contemporary artistic practices. Throughout the episodes of this podcast series we are creatively addressing rural-based subjects like agropastoralism, transhumance, water manifestations and symbologies, social change and its impact on landscape and food production and consumption, the Ukrainian migration to rural areas in Europe and more. In this episode we present “Thermal sonic immersion”, a creative work by Binaural Nodar’s directors Luís Costa and Rui Costa together with Spanish cellist Nati Plascencia, that was created in 2019 for a series of concerts in spas of the Portuguese region of Viseu Dão Lafões. The sound piece mixes poetic reflections on the virtues of thermal water with recollections from local inhabitants on the history of theis spas, in this specifc case Caldas da Felgueira in the municipality of Nelas. Welcome to Thermal Sound Immersion, an experience that stimulates concentration and serenity. We suggest you try silence, gently entering this flow of sounds, images, and memories of the thermal baths. How about closing your eyes from time to time? How about remembering the happy moments you have spent in rivers, beaches, and thermal baths? How about getting into a comfortable position, sitting or lying down on the cushions? Don't feel self-constrained. Be as if you were at home. Water, symbol of all the virtues of the world. Water, source and origin of all beings. Water, essence of vegetation and principle of all healing. Water, foundation of the manifestation of the cosmos on earth. Water, substance bearing divine virtues. Water, bath, healing What is a thermal bath? Each cell maintains a double movement Of assimilation and dissimilation, In other words, life. The skin breathes, being traversed by substances. Which in turn come into contact with other cells So, knowing the characteristics of water, The benefits of the respective chemical agents are assumed. Baths of water that spring forth hot, water with medicinal virtues due to the minerals through which they pass Before bursting forth onto the earth.

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