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Dissonant Landscapes: Music of Iceland
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Dissonant Landscapes," which explores how Icelandic musicians are often discussed in relationship to the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Constant Wonder - Snowfall, Snowflakes, and Ice Instruments
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Skijoring, Penguins Declining, Virtual Music Collaboration
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Skijoring: Horse-drawn Adrenaline; Topic 2 - Iconic Penguins in Antarctica Declining More Than Previously Thought; Topic 3 - Musicians Mi...

Bought by KOWS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSTK and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 51:52
  • Purchases: 7
Constant Wonder - Animal Duets
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Do birds and other animals actually make and enjoy music?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Sand Shortage, Recorder Lessons, ADHD & Cannabis
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Sand Shortage; Topic 2 - Recorder Lessons; Topic 3 - ADHD & Cannabis

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 4
Frontier Music
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 50:00
Top of Mind - Skijoring, Penguins Declining, Virtual Music Collaboration
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Skijoring: Horse-drawn Adrenaline; Topic 2 - Iconic Penguins in Antarctica Declining More Than Previously Thought; Topic 3 - Musicians Mi...

Bought by KOWS and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:50
  • Purchases: 2
Other Country Ensemble Plays World Fusion Music Every Fourth Monday at the Black Dog in St Paul
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Other Country Ensemble, Credit: Laurie Patton
Other Country Ensemble is just what it says: An American group that performs music traditions from other countries. And you can catch the band the ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
This is the Border Radio
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Thanks to the Time Loop we all seem to be stuck in, our 99th episode is here . . . . directly following our 100th. The border used to be a lot of f...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
'Dark Sky Memories' from Grand Portage
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
Caption: Northern Lights in Cook County, Credit: Travis Novitsky
Shelley McIntire is a longtime resident of Cook County and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She describes herself as ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Whale Fall
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: Screenshot from Nautilus Livestream, October 2019, Credit: Nautilus
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 11:46
Saving the Good Stuff
From: Marie Bongiovanni
Caption: Tru Blu at Altapass
The Orchard at Altapass on the Blue Ridge Parkway is committed to "Saving the Good Stuff," which is more than simply Appalachian culture and tradit...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
Jenny Larsson: Searching For Arctic Winter
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Dancer choreographer Jenny Larsson enlivens our understanding of how the Far North's deep cold is essential to the balance of the Earth's biosphere...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 11:00
Lake Erie's problems set to music in 'Voice of the Lake'
From: Great Lakes Today
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It may be hard to imagine a composer being inspired by public hearings and court cases. But Lake Erie and its problems take center stage in a new o...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Live Feed Presents: Heiruspecs
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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KQAL’s Muhammed Al-Rous talks with Felix from hip-hop group Heiruspecs. Learn more about the band's roots and developments and hear their live perf...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 35:05
Debbie Duncan, Defining Jazz Vocalist
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Debbie Duncan, Credit: Nathan Youngerberg
When Debbie Duncan sings and lets her imagination run on a song melody, you are in the presence of someone who is a master of her craft. Debbie’s i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
The Speed of Sound: Courtney Barnett
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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I probably don’t have to motivate you on the importance and excitement behind Courtney Barnett. The Aussie exploded onto our collective radars wit...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Caprice Saxophone Quartet Features Minimalism in its Next Show
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: The Caprice Saxophone Quartet, Credit: Alison Bents
The Caprice Saxophone Quartet is an accomplished group playing a varied and challenging group of pieces in a Studio Z Saint Paul concert on March 7...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco's Soundwave Festival
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Listening to Music for a Changing Tide at Ocean Beach, Credit: Julie Caine
Every two years, San Francisco’s Soundwave Festival asks artists and musicians to focus their talents -- and their ears -- on one sonic idea. This ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:18
Beat Pedaler
From: vanessa lowe
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Beat Pedaler is an in-depth exploration of rapper, inventor and educator Paul Freedman’s passion for bike culture.

Bought by KDNK, KUNM, KVSC, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 24
Bay Area bands tackle tour on two wheels
From: KALW
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Two Bay Area bands, Rupa and the April Fishes and Shake Your Peace, prepare to kick off a 10-day, 200-mile bike tour.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:44
A Musician's Life: Graham Parker
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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Veteran songwriter Graham Parker joins Tracey Tanenbaum on this edition of "A Musician's Life". Early in his career, critics in his native Britain...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
John Luther Adams: Tuning in the sound of a frozen world
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Lover of Wood/s
From: Long Haul Productions
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A profile of a musician who makes guitars from the old-growth forest that he's decided to protect in perpetuity.

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 5