Country Viewpoint

Country Viewpoint is a site for anyone who lives outside our capital cities (or perhaps has a connection to rural or regional Australia) who wants to share an experience, place or idea that is close to their hearts.

Country Viewpoint has been airing on ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program for almost a decade, but now we are taking it o

Sound Quality

Want access to a vibrant community interested in listening to & broadcasting new music? Want feedback from Sound Quality presenter Tim Ritchie? Join Pool and get uploading.

Public pool

If you're making interesting sound or vision Pool has a sweet screening and listening opportunity for you.

We'll be compiling video mixes for public screens around Australia like Melbourne's Federation Square and audio mixes for Sydney's Peat's Ridge Festival.

If you'd like to be considered for inclusion then tag your work "public pool" as you upload to Pool.

Letter Vox

Send an audio postcard from the literary edge.

We all love to talk about books.

Letter Vox is the place to post your passionate views on your favourite books….

My Street

MY STREET – AN ABC RADIO NATIONAL/POOL PROJECT

Song Bird

Bird on a wire, in the hand, in the bush, bird on the wing, of the air, of a feather, of passage, of paradise, of peace...
early bird, night owl, rain bird, lyrebird, sea bird, song bird
bird of prey, bird’s eye, bird’s nest, birdsong...

The Night Share

Get your sounds in the Night Air mix

If you'd like to make something for the radio but journalism or song-writing aren't your thing, you might enjoy mashing up some words and sounds to tell a new story.

Build a conversation out of two separate interviews.
Use sounds instead of some of the words in a sentence.

GhosTrain

GhosTrain is asking you to contribute to this exciting project that deals with the fast disappearing memory of Sydney’s recent industrial past.

2Play

The stuff of a good story surrounds us. Life’s so much stranger than fiction, don’t you think?

Local portraits

Local Portraits is a project that explores these questions through a radio program, a photographic exhibition, and now online here in Pool.

What is your favourite music? Why does a single song or piece of music mean more to you than any other?

Polar attraction

What is it about the cold vast whiteness at the ends of our earth – for centuries humans have been fascinated with the polar environments.  But to us in the sunbaked country they seem the most inhospitable places on the planet.  Adventurers and explorers have risked and often lost their lives to unravel the mysteries of the poles, yet many secrets still remain.  What is it t

Antarctic Meltdown

Antarctica is a uniquely post-colonial commons, a demilitarised zone and a site of rapid eco-change. It's an ideal focus for collectively rethinking our approach to the planet and what we hold in common.

So with Pool’s Antarctic Meltdown project we're pooling polar sounds and images, melting them down to make cool new things.