An update from Petra: Introducing Rumblestrip

A quick update after quite a long pause. Lately I’ve been:
1.⁠ ⁠Noodling with some new episodes! They might be shorter and scrappier but they’ll keep taking you to more low-down places and the people who live there
2.⁠ ⁠Imagining a physical version of Lowlines - a place to get low in. As I explore this - and all things related re. body, people, and place - I’ve been writing about it on my Substack under the title of GET LOW. Find it at: lowlines.substack.com
3.⁠ ⁠Getting juiced about joining the Hub & Spoke Audio Collective! They are a collective of independent audio makers, all under the umbrella of a shared love of place and the hyperlocal. I've picked out a show from the Hub & Spoke stable that I thought might flick your switches. It's called ‘Ode to Village Life’ from Rumble Strip - and I love how it captures the essence of place in the most everyday kind of ways. What makes a place feel like a place is so often made up of such ordinary elements that we might not always think about, but if removed, the whole scaffolding of that place can shift.

What is Lowlines?

Lowlines is a sonic scrapbook and a passport to roam. Following one woman’s pull to tune into the pulse of place - befriending strangers along the way.

Feeling pranged out by the London business hustle, food entrepreneur Petra Barran brought an audio recorder and set off with no itinerary, guided simply by a hunger to get lower and closer to the ground.

The series is a holiday for the ears, taking us to the heartbeat of New Orleans, the low-slung wetlands of South Louisiana, the slow gyrations of the Amtrak to Tucson. Down to the brittle rasp of the Sonoran desert, the rich, volcanic soil of Mexico City’s Aztec allotments and further, to the soaring jungle chorus of the Peruvian Amazon.