With the success of last year's AP Sounds pop-up community-led broadcast at Ally Pally Station, this event is expanded for an even more immersive radio experience, with visitors listening in through their mobile devices as they walk around the Palace grounds, hearing interviews with the community, sound art, and performances layered over the actual sounds of the Palace. Broadcasting from a disused building in Alexandra Park’s lower field, this year’s edition blends local community radio with documentary segments and sounds.
AP Sounds is a live pop-up community led radio broadcast, blending pre-recorded and live segments where community leads discuss opportunities for shaping future placemaking policy in and around Wood Green. This special broadcast has been created for the London Festival of Architecture 2025. Musician and sound artist Jo Elise has been working with members of the Alexandra Palace Young Creatives Network to create a live radio show celebrating the voices of community members connected to the lower fields area of Alexandra Palace Park and wider Wood Green area.
Broadcasting live from the Alexandra Palace Cricket and Football Club you’ll hear from cricket and football club users, members of the Campsbourne Collective, Alexandra Palace Park and Sustainability leads, as well as soundbites from the archive and much more.
Visitors are encouraged to visit the lower park while listening to the live broadcast and explore Alexandra Park and Palace and Wood Green visiting all that the area has on offer as part of the LFA.
AP Sounds has two components one is a live pop-up radio broadcast available via a listen live link on 21st June between 11am – 12.30pm and the other is a recorded ‘podcast’ segment, available throughout June via a listening link on the events page.
The podcast segment is a sound piece curated by the Ally Pally Creative Learning Team of interviews from members of the community celebrated in the By the People exhibition currently showing in the East Court. Listeners are encouraged to visit the exhibition which was curated as part of a project celebrating Alexandra Palace’s 150th anniversary.
