RadioActive - on Water #2 - River Song, Singing Rivers by Lisa Blackmore & Leonel Vásquez - 7th May

A six-part series by **https://meiraasher.bandcamp.com)** and **[Stephen Shiell](https://stephenshiell.co.uk** exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

In this episode, sound artist **https://coleccionsolo.com/artists/leonel-vasquez/)** and researcher **[Lisa Blackmore](http://lisablackmore.net/?page_id=2** navigate the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created together with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.

Loaded with chemicals and sewage along its course, the river is largely devoid of the fish and freshwater crustaceans that for thousands of years teemed in its waters. People have turned their backs on the water body, even though it was once the centre of collective life.

How might listening to the river’s song renew bonds of relation and reverence