Svenska Yle Drama

Tryck på "STREAM WALK", välj audio quality "PROFESSIONAL" och tryck på "START". På kartan kommer du då att se din egen position och sju rundlar där ljuden av 1700-talets helsingforsare finns. Om du trycker på en rundel ser du scenens nummer och datum. Tidsresan börjar i rundeln innanför den gula porten mot Bulevarden. Om du har tur kan du under vandringens gång hitta ljud som inte kan ses på kartan. Sätt på dig hörlurar och kliv in på gravgården 1710 - året då två tredjedelar av Helsingfors befolkning dog i pest. Tidsresan rekommenderas inte för barn under tio år.

In the autumn of 1710, the plague swept through the small town of Helsinki and killed two-thirds of its inhabitants. The dead were buried in a graveyard that is today called Plague Park. During the summer of 2020, Swedish-speaking YLE Drama enabled the public to travel back in time to the year of the plague. The binaural and site-specific audio drama ´Voices from the Year of the Plague´ can only be heard in the same park where the victims of the plague lie buried. During the week of Prix Europa we bring a part of the Plague Park to our European colleagues and give you four audio scenes at the yard in Potsdam. ‘Voices from the Year of the Plague’ was created in order to be produced and performed during the corona pandemic. The manuscript was written so that the recordings could be carried out with just one actor at a time in the studio. Even the actual performance itself is corona safe. The listeners, visitors, use their own phones, headphones and the GPS-guided app Echoes to experience the audio drama, which can only be heard if one stands at the right spot in the park. The drama can be visited on all weekdays, around the clock, in order to prevent too many from gathering in the park at the same time. The drama was recorded using binaural technology that gives the listener the feeling of being inside the drama, as though the characters were talking directly to them, and that the sounds they hear really do emanate from the park. There are seven longer scenes in the original drama, as well as a number of hidden ‘Easter eggs’, mini scenes that one cannot see on the map, but which pop up in the headphones when the visitor happens to step into the right areas. The drama leads the listener through the increasing horror of the autumn of 1710 and out to the other side of the pandemic into the spring of 1711 - and the beginning of new a new life. All the scenes are played out in the graveyard. The events in the drama correspond to reality. Many of the people depicted really did exist. In the second to last scene many of the 1185 plague victims who lie buried under the listeners’ feet introduce themselves by their names and occupations that were chronicled in the church register. Put on your headphones, press "Stream walk" and start your journey back to the Year of the Plague.

Press "STREAM WALK", choose audio quality "PROFESSIONAL" and press "START". On the map you will then be able to locate both yourself and the areas where the sounds are. If you press on the circles you see the number of the scenes and their dates. Your audio journey begins at the yellow gate towards Bulevardi and lasts about half an hour. You might also find sounds that are not seen on the map. Put on your headphones and travel back to 1710, when two thirds of Helsinki´s inhabitants died of the plague and were buried in this very graveyard, today also called the Plague Park. The audio drama is not recommended for children under ten.

Paina "STREAM WALK", valitse audio quality "PROFESSIONAL" ja paina "START". Näet sovelluksen kartalla itsesi ja ympyrät, joista löydät 1700-luvun helsinkiläiset. Painamalla ympyröitä näet kohtauksien numerot ja päivämäärät. Saatat löytää ääniä myös ympyröiden ulkopuolelta. Aikamatka alkaa Bulevardin puoleiselta portilta ja kestää noin puoli tuntia. Laita kuulokkeet korville ja astu hautausmaalle vuoteen 1710, jolloin rutto surmasi kaksi kolmasosaa Helsingin asukkaista. Esitystä ei suositella alle 10-vuotiaille.