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Caption: Farnoosh Fathi, poet
Farnoosh Fathi reads a poem on the occasion of poet John Ashbery’s 87th birthday.

Bought by KVNO, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Amanda Sanfilippo, Credit: Fringe Projects Miami
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:22
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"When I have my skates on, I'm awake and I'm alive. I don't have to take drugs." Where@bouts, the podcast that remixes the world, is back with a s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Post-Atomic Trio, Credit: The Post-Atomic Trio
Jazz fans and artists value originality. And originality is the very thing that the Post-Atomic Trio hangs its collective hat on. The group’s drumm...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets Rachel and Jared owners of the design company, Deep In Design. They recently inherited a 13...

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 06:19
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Introduction to wet felting technique. Felted soap making

  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
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We conclude Native American Heritage Month with Greg Field and Denise Low. Drawing upon their Native heritage, Greg Field reads from his 2014 book ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Maryam Ysafzadeh at home, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
The World Jazz Trio combines interests in varied musical forms, with a goal of synthesizing multiple styles into something new. The members of the ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
Caption: Kris Halpin In The Studio, Credit: Robin Valk
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:55
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Francine Sterle is the author of "Nude In Winter," published in 2006 which was a LA Times Book of the Year finalist. She has also published two o...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
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The first portion is a previously unreleased radio hour from 2004, with musical stops along the way in San Francisco, Helena Arkansas and San Diego...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KPVL, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 5
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Dreams are slick, dreams soar over the candlestick. Dreams are here then dreams are gone, yet I wonder from where they spawn? Does a stone dream, t...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:49:38
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Throughout history, composers who have been known for championing a particular musical style have shocked their fans by radically and suddenly chan...

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  • Length: 58:29
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In recent years composers have become interested in the fact that the performers can do things on stage other than just play their instrument: stom...

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  • Length: 58:29
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This week's Relevant Tones focuses on composers who have tried to step outside the box, redefine their definitions of music, and start over without...

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  • Length: 58:37
Caption: Zutty Singleton
“Back Beat” is used as a reference to Rock & Roll denoting the 2nd and 4th beats, however, in this case, it fits for the pioneer percussionists of ...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Liv Rooth
A meet-cute in a coffeeshop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is fro...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 3
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One of the leading composers of our time and an ardent promoter of new music throughout the world, Augusta Read Thomas is an artistic force to be r...

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  • Length: 58:27
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It's essentially just a conveniently placed grouping of popular percussion instruments and yet, the drum kit is often cited as the diving line betw...

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  • Length: 58:26
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As astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson learn more about the cosmos and present their often strange and wondrous findings to the public, the cr...

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  • Length: 58:30
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When harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg asked Bach to write pieces for him to play to help a Saxon count get to sleep at night he could hardly...

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  • Length: 58:30
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
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In this Fresh Talk episode, Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer introduces 400 Nudes, a revealing found photo project that she presents online and in ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 11:48

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
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Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2