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Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting January 21st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the host, opened with updates on teh news, inclu...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Added: Jan 14, 2012
- Length: 52:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 01:05:47
- Purchases: 1
A Mashup is a composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs. On this piece, producer Gabriel Liendo helps us understand the world ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 05:26
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, stories of two researchers: one measuring the shape of music, and another hunting for signs that the world is flat.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 08:40
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
Can new, globalized cultural traditions that cross national boundaries be created with the aid of social media?
"Album in a Day" is a community-d...
- Added: Feb 27, 2011
- Length: 04:16
Producer Rebecca Lavoie talks with singer-songwriter Mike Doughty about his unusually interactive presence on social media sites, the new narrative...
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 08:06
David Kontak builds bizarre musical machines out of found objects and uses them to produce experimental soundscapes.
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
It's Mozart meets The Clash.
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
A pair of young electronic musicians put a dance-inspired spin on video game music.
Bought by Vocalo.org and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 2
Recently, St. Cloud State University hosted the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States for their annual conference. Please join ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 28:02
South by Southwest has grown from being just a music conference into an event encompassing music, film, and the internet. But it's becoming less c...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 04:38
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Mash-ups (creating new art works from existing creative pieces) have been around for at least two decades, but the digital universe has helped this...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Remix Radio
- Added: Feb 04, 2010
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 2
Matisyahu, a Hasidic Jew from White Plains, New York has built personal relationships online that have propelled him all the way to the Winter Olym...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Stockham, an electrical engineer, pioneered digital recording.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:04
Does the wood and methods used to make a violin make a difference in its sound?
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 06:32
We associate the saxophone with the mellowness of jazz, but it roots are very hotheaded. The saxophone evolved from a bass clarinet built by the Be...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Zildjian cymbals have a long history: Beginning in 1618 with the Mustafa the First, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:57
How we spell the word disk affects how you view laws about copying recordings of music and movies. Lying in the balance is billions of dollars, and...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
Pauline Oliveros has been a composer and musician for over 50 years. She describes how technology plays a role in her music, her impressions on the...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 1
Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Album covers are shrinking. Gone are the days of the 12". Now designers have to create art that looks good on tiny i-Pod screens. Ryan Clark is one...
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 02:23
