Patricia Peters
Reed College
Project
Radio in the Ruins
Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Norway, Bulgaria, Germany
The Soviet Union and its influence produced an impressive array of buildings, monuments, and sites that embodied communist ideology. After the Soviet Union’s fall, many of these places became inessential or unsupportable and were abandoned. Some of those places, decaying as they are, remain today. For my Watson year, I will travel to ruins in the Soviet sphere and make radio pieces about each of them. I aim to encapsulate the rich histories and eerie beauty of these ruins with sound.