The Sonic Memorial - 25th Anniversary of 9/11
About this episode
To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we present the Peabody Award winning Sonic Memorial Project with a post script recorded on the 10th Anniversary by our narrator, Paul Auster.
The Sonic Memorial Project began in October 2001 as part of the Lost & Found Sound series. We opened a phone line on NPR for listeners to call in with their stories and audio artifacts relating to the September 11 attacks and the history of the World Trade Center.
Hundreds of people called with testimonies and remembrances, music and shards of sound, joining a national collaboration chronicling the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood.
Combining interviews, voicemail messages, audio contributions from listeners, oral histories, home videos and recorded sounds of all kinds, the Sonic Memorial Project team created a series of stories for broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, and this hour long special narrated by author Paul Auster.
The Sonic Memorial Project was produced by The Kitchen Sisters and Jay Allison, in collaboration with NPR, independent radio producers, artists, writers, archivists, historians and public radio listeners throughout the country.
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