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Episode #24: Tom Bills: Guitar Maker
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
Biodiesel On the Hudson
From: Willis Arnold
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Two biodiesel enthusiasts discuss their involvement in the Hudson Valley biodiesel community.

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
Knocked Out
From: American Student Radio
Caption: Knocked Out, Credit: Daniel Brown
This award-winning story profiles one student athlete who suffered a sports-related concussion, and it follows the physical, emotional, & mental tr...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
Episode #23: The Great Animal Orchestra
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:50
  • Purchases: 1
Translate Sound to the Brain
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #21: Nick Zammuto
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Alexjander - Elemental Musician
From: Mia Lobel
Caption: Susan Alexjander, Credit: Li Poon, Colours of Water Festival, UK
A non-narrated profile of sound artist Susan Alexjander, who uses vibrational frequencies from the natural world – from DNA to planetary spins – to...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:40
Quickie Whiskeys: A Spirited Race To Create A Faster Bourbon
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Close-up of Cleveland Whiskey label., Credit: Brian Bull, ideastream
A look at the trend of developing rapidly-aged whiskeys.

Bought by KLCC and WAMC


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #03: Walk With Your Ears (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Take a walk with us through the Sensory Path at the Indianapolis Art Center

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
Episode #02: Foley Follies (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #01: The Tide and the Seay (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."

Bought by KWMR-FM and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Mysterious Life of the Rubber Ducky
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
A Musical Brain Tease
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Notes On Autumn - A Seasonal Music Special
From: Charlie Warren
Series: "Notes On" - Seasonal Specials
Caption: Into Autumn, Credit: L. Sponsler
A sound picture of nature's restful season of change and anticipation, along with its accompanying human happenings, all framed by music as varied ...

Bought by WNIJ and KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #14: Bicycle Sounds
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:24
  • Purchases: 1
EarthTones
From: Claire Schoen
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Sound is a vital though invisible aspect of human existence. “EarthTones” gives its audience the opportunity to experience the natural world throug...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #13: The Sounds of East London
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #10.5: Celestaphone (Half-isode)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A the story and sounds of an instrument made from meteorites.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)
From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Notes On Spring - A Seasonal Music Special
From: Charlie Warren
Series: "Notes On" - Seasonal Specials
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An assuring hour of music and information about the promising resurgence of spring, including rare facts about the featured music and the reasons f...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, WNIJ, WRNC-LP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 7
The Animal Orchestra Is Quieting
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Animals communicate with each other like instruments in an orchestra. This natural soundscape is now quieting which can have an effect on humans as...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #10: Rhythm Discovery
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: The 'Shimmer Wall'
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
Sound is...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is sound? We'll define it physically and through our experience. Interesting descriptions abound as we learn why a piano sound is different th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 1

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