| Sumario: | Purpose This research aims to present the process of creating the audiodrama podcast entitled Sexagenarte - A Vida Não Para (Sexagenart - Life Does Not Stop). It is a project developed virtually, together with eight older people, during the most critical period of the pandemic in Brazil. Among so many consequences, the pandemic generated the social isolation of the world population, with greater vehemence for the older population. The loss of conviviality limited interpersonal interactions, transforming virtual platforms into inviting techno-convivial environments to experience artistic-digital inclusion actions with the older adults, as is the case of the presented study. In the last decade, Brazil has become one of the largest podcast producers and consumers in the world (VOXNEST, 2020). Among the most relevant productions, audio dramas stand out, sound objects similar to old radio plays (SPRITZER, 2005). In this art scene, the eight "new old bodies" (WEBER, et al, 2020) that make up the podcast Sexagenart lend their voices to narrate, through eight episodes of original audio drama, some auto fictional memories of their own biographies. Method The qualitative and applied research is an audio drama creation process developed in a remote-virtual way, between 2020-2022. Eight participants, aged between 66-86 years old, all residents of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, participate in the project, including four visually impaired people. The project consists of seven stages: comprehensive interviews (LALANDA, 1998); awareness dynamics; story scripting; essay; recordings; collective edits and listening. Result and Discussion The process of creating Sexagenart led to the launch of the eight original episodes on the sound streaming platform Spotify, available to the general public in portuguese. Virtual artistic creations are configured as ways to share knowledge through techno-conviviality. The methods undertaken to adapt the digital environment to the technological knowledge of the participants, make the Sexagenart project a multidisciplinary action that opens paths to expand the digital inclusion of older people to the artistic-virtual field. Old age and intergenerationality are highlighted as protagonists, praising the trajectories of older people through audio dramas based on real stories. Conclusion The new old bodies that lent their voices to the project, promoted and produced sound art in pandemic times. They turned the precariousness of technical resources into a powerful multidisciplinary laboratory that combines dramaturgical writing procedures with techniques of vocal expressiveness and acting in audio drama. In addition, it provides spaces for listening, friendship and solidarity that value the life trajectories of elderly people, potential victims of Covid-19.
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