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The interactive mobile application Croatian Soundscript (Hrvatski zvukopis), an original project by the arts organization YELO, has arrived in Santiago, Punta Arenas, and Buenos Aires, inviting users to discover Croatian literature woven into the fabric of the city. In public spaces across these cities, users can now listen to and read 90 geolocated audio stories by Croatian contemporary and classic writers, available in Croatian, English, and Spanish.

The project was introduced in South America by Jelena Remetin, the project’s author and artistic director, alongside Jelena Miholjević, who lends her voice to selected texts, and Andrea Remetin, the producer. Presentations held at universities in Chile and Argentina were met with strong interest from students and the academic community, opening a dialogue between languages, cultures, and literary traditions.

Croatian Soundscript brings together literature, sound, and place. Stories unfold through mobile phones at specific urban locations, turning the city into an open book and inviting listeners to slow down, listen, and inhabit space through words. The project features both contemporary and classic works of Croatian literature, offering an intimate and personal encounter with language while expanding the international presence of Croatian culture.

Following earlier activations in New York, London, Paris, and Madrid, as well as in numerous Croatian cities, Croatian Soundscript now extends its listening map to South America – allowing new audiences to experience Croatian stories as living voices embedded in the world around them.