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Birds Inspire American Composer Maria Schneider
From: BirdNote
Caption: Maria Schneider, American Composer
BirdNote’s Chris Peterson spoke with American composer, Maria Schneider, about how birds inspired her jazz composition Cerulean Skies, which receiv...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Pete Seeger-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Pete Seeger
Tribute to legendary singer-songwriter, political activist and environmentalist Pete Seeger featuring interviews, music and stories from a life far...

Bought by Prairie Public, KGLT, RadioFreePalmer, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 4
Acoustic Stories: Charlie Pulkrabek - "Early"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Best Things In Life Are Free: Adam Browning and Chuck Leavell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chuck Leavell
This week on Sea Change Radio, we dip into the archives to reconnect with three timeless essentials – the sun, the trees and music. First, we hear ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Singing - "Compulsively Breaking Into Song, Almost Never."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
A song for the burning trees
From: Astoria Sojourner
Series: Handmade Radio
Caption: Fire in the Shire, Credit: Kari Marie
I live in the extremely flammable region of Southern Oregon. I hope that by sharing this song, the rains do come.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:25
Mountains in Motion
From: Wind & Rhythm
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There is something immensely permanent about the mountains. The vistas they create are magnificent... timeless. Even in my home, I have photos I’ve...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Joe Paulik plays & talks about his recent CD, "Power of Place"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Matthew Brown & Ann Possis welcomed Cook County singer-songwriter Joe Paulik to The Roadhouse May 31. He talked about nature as inspiration ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 31:21
  • Purchases: 1
Musician Marlin Ledin captures the sounds of Lake Superior's ice
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis visited with Washburn, Wisc., musician and artist Marlin Ledin Jan. 18 about his project to record the ice sounds of Lake Superio...

Bought by KSRQ and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut through 2012: Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Russell Means
Additional tribute mix of more incredible people who left us in 2012--legacies that will continue to inspire...part two of A Shortcut through 2012

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:26
"The Legend of the Hero Bush" ( A fable from the future that may hold water today)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present. Second half: excerpts from...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 57:19
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
Folktale of Peak Experience
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This week on Folktales, we're headed to the top--with a mountain of good music to conquer. Hope you're up for joining us on the Folktale of Peak Ex...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, KLCC, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Hilary Hahn in her own words ... on improvisation
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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One of the world's elite concert violinists talks about improvising with Hauschka, who plays a piano doctored with duct tape and ping-pong balls. ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 11:07
  • Purchases: 1
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
Jack Johnson & Friends - Best of Kokua Festival Live
From: Joyride Media
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One Hour radio special features Jack Johnson & guests live at the 2004-2010 Kokua Festivals that raised money for environmental education programs ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Philip Blackburn "Duluth Harbor Serenade"
From: WDSE
Series: Radio Gallery
Caption: New Release "Ghostly Psalms", Credit: Philip Blackburn
Philip Blackburn is an environmental sound artist who composed a song titled "Duluth Harbor Serenade" featuring sounds from Duluth and Bayfront Par...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #45- Immersive Ideal (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The closest one could ever hope to get to dancing about architecture.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #43- The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Sometimes it's an object's imperfections that makes you fall in love with it. And sometimes that object is an escalator.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 22
The Audiophiles: Finding music in the sounds of Antarctica
From: KALW
Caption: Local composer Cheryl Leonard recording the sound of Antarctica in 2009
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Oh Coqui!
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: coqui frog, Credit: long haul productions
The Coqui, a tiny, but very vociferous tree frog, is the national symbol of Puerto Rico, beloved in folklore and in song. But while the coqui’s lus...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KGOU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:06
  • Purchases: 3
The Tower
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: Coast Guard tower, Baudette, MN, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Elizabeth Meister and Dan Collison of Long Haul Productions journeyed to Baudette, MN to find out just how 370 songbirds ended up in a f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 1
Loaves & Fishes
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: duck walking on fish at linesville spillway, Credit: long haul productions
Long Haul Productions teamed up with musician Tim Fite to tell the fishy tale of the fight for the right to throw bread at the Linesville Spillway ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Natural State
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: natural gas well, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...

Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 3

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