a collaboration between two interactive design companies and the netherlands institute for sound and visionatform, now in its fifth year, has grown hugely and allows any station to appear after just submitting an application online. basically we are using internet radio and it's quite an ancient technology by now. all these radio stations broadcast online and through the web we are basically able to link to these streams that are already occurring, and just embed it on the platform and just play them. radio garden encourages you to explore for hours. by transporting you to different places, it may offer some much—needed comfort. last year we went very viral in italy during the very hard time in the country where lots of people were sick and dying. we were receiving, like, selfies of doctors in hospitals taking care of people, and it was like very, yeah, very emotional. it's kind of impressive to see, like, how radio garden touches people. that's a lovely little thing, isn't it? and in a way i think it points towards one of the big tech trends at the moment which is seeing good old audio hav