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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
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
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
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
Musical Robots
From: KFAI
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the discovery of electricity, artists have been experimenting with science and music, creating machines that synthesize acoustic sounds. Elec...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
Exploring Music with Assisted Technology
From: KFAI
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Music making has mass appeal, but what if you couldn't sing? Or speak? Lifeworks' services for people with disabilities includes an innovative musi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Power of Sound
From: Alyssa Ostrzyzek
Series: Sonus, Tonus, and You
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Here, the direct physiological and psychological affects of sound on the human brain are examined.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
How Our Brains Process Music and Sound
From: Alyssa Ostrzyzek
Series: Sonus, Tonus, and You
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This installment examines how humans perceive sound, and how we listen, with a number of experiments as aids.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
Episode #17: Most Relaxing Song
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
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
Beatbox Sounds - Airdate: 25 February 2013
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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MRI scans of beatboxers show that they’ve unwittingly borrowed sounds from exotic languages.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
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?

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:24
  • 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.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • 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
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.

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
All Mixed Up with Pinback
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
All Mixed Up-Stormy Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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This special program was produced during Hurricane Sandy's collision with the east coast, in my studio on the upper west side which luckily had po...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:47
Songs in Spaaaaace
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Find out what songs were attached records attached to the two Voyager probes and are now on their way out of the galaxy.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
"The Sky Above, The Mud Below"( update/ remix to include segments on Paul Ryan being chosen Romney running mate)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This was a good week for NASA and to have your eyes on Mars.... a bad week in Campaign 2012, as the presidential candidates actually started calli...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:43
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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
Distillations Episode 153: Best of Distillations #10
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - The Chemistry Podcast
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We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: attempts to contact aliens in space and the secret behind th...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 15:34
Sound therapist Frank DiCristina
From: KFAI
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Sound is used to inform, entertain, communicate, and even heal. The ancient art of sound healing helps ease pain and stress, facilitates spiritual ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1