Everything Sounds

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Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, culture, and our everyday lives.

Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, culture, and our everyday lives. Each program aims to highlight people, places, and ideas that expand our understanding of the power of sound. The program is independently produced and hosted by Craig Shank and George Drake Jr.


27 Pieces

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Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:10
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Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 25:37
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Following his influential career in music and composition, Bernie Krause decided to leave music behind and devote his efforts to studying the sound...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:50
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a theatre in San Francisco where they turn off the lights and turn up the volume. Join us as we explore Audium.

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The Books were known for making use of sounds and audio samples that aren’t typically heard in music. The Books disbanded in 2012, but Nick Zammuto...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:55
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 19:07
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
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If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:24
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From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 1
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A the story and sounds of an instrument made from meteorites.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
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Caption: The 'Shimmer Wall'
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
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The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
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New episode! Learn about Numero Group's mission to salvage, restore, and archive neglected pieces of 20th century music history.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:26
  • Purchases: 1