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On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we discussed the book "Sound Actions," which reduces musical activity down to its most essential components so that we can re-conc...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
"Improbable and impractical" – words used to describe the music found on "Corrector Vol 2: Impossible Musics," a new album compiled of music compos...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 26, 2021
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 1
Alba Triana, a Colombian-born composer and sound artist based in Miami, Florida, introduces three of her exquisite sound and light installations: M...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 11:19
In our final part of the New York Audio Show we feature 2 icons of the High-End Audio world: David Cheskey and Rondi D'Agostino. It also includes t...
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 40:00
If you want to know about a creative spirit, take the case of Zack Baltich. Zack synthesizes his informal and formal music experiences to create so...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 3
What's lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear, perhaps nothing. But to one composer, these "lost sounds" are a source for...
Bought by WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:50
- Purchases: 3
Chaz Bundick never meant to be a musician. It was never in his original plan. He wanted to be a graphic designer. But now that he’s blown up as Tor...
Bought by KHNS and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 2
Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Join us for episode seventy-one as we speak with EveAnna Manley, President of Manley Laboratories, a manufacturer of beautifully engineered and cra...
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 28:02
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01
There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
It's aliiiive. My guitar pedal is ALIIIIIVE!!!
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 16:19
Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:04
Explore the sounds of the Museum of Modern Art's "Soundings" exhibit.
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 12:19
The MEEP! Show reviews gear from Source Audio.
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 28:35
Sound effects and music define the games we play, but there's one where the sound and music aren't really supposed to be noticed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2013
- Length: 17:24
- Purchases: 1
There's a man who's spent his whole life developing his own library of Electronic music examples.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Jun 13, 2013
- Length: 20:32
- Purchases: 1
In 1997, three men created the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' songs from completed surveys. Technically, they should be the best and worst songs...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 18:45
Indiana was a hotbed for KKK activity in the 1920's, but during that time Richmond was the home of a record label that helped pioneer the recording...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 20:09
- Purchases: 2
There's a theatre in San Francisco where they turn off the lights and turn up the volume. Join us as we explore Audium.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 16:59
- Purchases: 1
In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 21:55
