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Voices of Podil

by Olga

City : Kyiv
Format : digital
Status: :
Creative Points: : 100
Time spent (minutes) : 0 min
Created at : 17/04/2026
Audio recorded the morning after a long alert night: lapel mic to Andriyivsky passers-by — one phrase each starting « this morning I heard… ». Footsteps, silences kept like stones in a wall. Six minutes, no music — wind in pipes only. Oral archive of Podil.
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Artist Stories

This morning I heard…

Microphone held out, not an interview. One sentence per person, no more. "This morning I heard my neighbor cry, then fall silent." "This morning I heard the tram that's no longer there." I kept the silences between the voices—four seconds, sometimes six. The edit was rejected by two participants; final version with names blurred. Six minutes that carry more weight than a speech.

Podil Oral Archive

Post-alert "street voice" project. Olga captured twelve sentences and a dozen silences. Together, we validated: audio as the sonic building block of the neighborhood.

Associated Media

Audio archive: passers-by one phrase each after alert, footsteps cobblestones, four-second silences, six minutes raw, Andriyivsky Podil.

Documentary photo lapel mic extended to passer-by Podil morning mist, ethical oral history, no faces sharp.