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Antillanca
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From: Ed Herrmann
A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.
Inner Skin
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From: Ed Herrmann
Imagine your skin as a giant ear. What does your skin hear while you're sleeping?
Summer Insects
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From: Ed Herrmann
Soothing sounds from the short lived singers of summer - cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.
How Do Mushrooms Know When to Grow?
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From: Ed Herrmann
What we call a mushroom is only the fruit of a much larger, subterranean organism. How do mushrooms know when to grow? Of course they need rain, sunshine, and the proper ...
The Sound of Colors
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From: Ed Herrmann
What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors are way up in the TeraHertz ...
by chance, a tribute to John Cage
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From: Ed Herrmann
a quick explanation and demonstration of John Cage's method of composing with chance operations
Chicago: January 20, 2009
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From: Ed Herrmann
Chicagoans reflect on the inauguration of Barack Obama.
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"Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago" features the words and voices of some of the great African American poets from Chicago.
Beginning with with Great Migration of the early 20th Century, and continuing to contemporary poets, the program features interviews and readings by writers who who have made a unique and crucial contribution to African American literature, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti, Sterling Plumpp, Margaret Walker, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Tyehimba Jess. These writers have vastly different styles and concerns, but all use poetry to examine life in a racially divisive society.
"Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago" is a production of the Poetry Foundation. It was written and produced by Ed Herrmann and is narrated by Richard Steele. It was first broadcast on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio in February 2008.
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Posted on August 17, 2010 at 08:06 PM | Permalink
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This was like a cup of tea. something that I needed; while sending out resumes and stressin'