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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
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
Rainbows on Demand
From: With Good Reason
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Spotting a rainbow requires a bit of luck—you know, being in the right place at the right time. But not if you make them yourself. For over two wee...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
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...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
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 #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
Episode #20: Voicemail Memories
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
Episode 26: Science and Art
From: Cate Morrison
Series: The Beauty Salon
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Science and aesthetic engagement, experimentation and participation

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
Psychology of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Fresh Talk: Agnes Meyer-Brandis
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh TALK
Caption: Agnes Meyer-Brandis and her Moon Geese experiment, Credit: © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst 2012
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis to talk about how Agnes fuses pure science and creativity to explore the zone between...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 21:57
Episode #09: Babble Machine
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
99% Invisible #14- Periodic Table (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Object Breast Cancer
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: A sculpture of a tumor made by caraballo-farman for Object Breast Cancer , Credit: caraballo-farman
A pair of artists came up with a new approach to representing breast cancer that's very different from pink ribbons. They use MRI scans to sculpt b...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Healing With Music
From: With Good Reason
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For teenagers dealing with substance abuse issues, talking about what they’re feeling can be a challenge. So one music therapist uses rock and heav...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Art Therapist, Melissa Walker
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. [25:44]

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 25:45
Feature Report - I’m Too Young For This @#!%
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:37
Interchange - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: The Astounding Brain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This week on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh interviews Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor about her work as a Neuroanatomist. Dr. Taylor discusses her work as...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:23
WorldCanvass: Global Science Fiction
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:40
The Psychology of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WNCU, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter, but his medium is an unusual one -- he paints with the ashes of what he's painting; from fish ash to human ash.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Public Radio Remix, and WAMC


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Into the World of Synesthesia
From: Alex Lewis
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #47- US Postal Service Stamps (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They are NOT tiny paintings.

Bought by WTJU, Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Story, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 7
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Alder Hey's Dawn Chorus
From: Ed Prosser
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Distillations Episode 114: Elements of Expression - Art and Chemistry
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - The Chemistry Podcast
Caption: Segment of Dove Bradshaw's Song of Which (Evelina kneeling, looking left), 2004.
In this episode we learn about how the mass production of oil paints spawned a new artistic movement and get a tour of artist Dove Bradshaw's studio.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:00