Radio / Active

by Logan Middleton

Lauren Redniss's "Radioactive" helped spark my interest in exploring the limits of what makes a book a book, and as such, I wanted to explore similar territory by investigating the boundaries of aural media in this project. So in my digital remake of "Radioactive," I aimed to use episodes in her book as thematic starting points for a choose-your-own-audio adventure. As Redniss's book is so difficult to categorize—it houses a number of genres and discourses, typefaces and page layouts—I wanted to recreate this collage of print media in an audio file by using a variety of voices, music, and sound effects to explore notions of science, magic, technology, and choice.