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Sound Actions
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
Through the Universe: The Sun
From: Simply Timeless Radio
Series: Simply Timeless (Subscribable)
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We begin our summer season with a journey across the Milky Way. Put on your sunglasses as we travel nearly 93 million miles to our first stop - The...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:50:40
Musician Raul Midón on Creative Adaptation During Covid-19
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nobel Efforts
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nobel Efforts, Credit: Seth Shostak
For two Swiss astronomers, it’s “Stockholm, here we come.” Their first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting another star has been awarded the most ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WLPR , WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bonus Ep 1: #OperaWeek: Bringing Inclusion to the Opera, Marc Scorca
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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This bonus episode is offered in celebration of the final day of Opera Week, 2018. It is also special because the conversation is also on YouTube u...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 32:13
The Ghost in the MP3 (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A musician composes with the sounds that get stripped from MP3s. -The rich sonic landscape that defines New York City.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WYAP, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Large Hadron Collider Song
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Pledge Drive Songs, Topical Songs & Parodies
Caption: Large Hadron Collider Song
Outro Song suitable for Large Hadron Collider news story segment

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 03:02
Starting Up (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The founder of Reddit speaks about his company and the future of the internet. And a designer for Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj and others talks ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KVSC, KHNS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Starting UP (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit speaks about his company and the future of the internet. Plus: Becca McCharen has designed clothes for Beyonc...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Speed of Sound: Toro y Moi
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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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
SF Mixtape Society keeps the art of sharing mixes alive
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: San Francisco Mixtape Society mix exchange at the Make Out Room., Credit: Annie Lin San Francisco Mixtape Society
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:54
Will Robinson's Brutalist Inspiration
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
Pilot Episode - "Any Given Command"
From: Clapping Monkey Productions
Series: Warren Krane
Caption: Warren Krane
Commander Warren Krane and the crew of the Peregrine arrive at Hermitage Station in a remote region of space to attend an Officer's Ball where the ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 21:58
18: Soundwalk
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
Music and Thought: Pushing The Limits
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Trimpin, is the star of the movie that bears his name, which will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival. He was the recipient of a Mac Arthur ge...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening Institute
From: Katherin Vasilopoulos
Series: Technology in the Arts
Caption: Katherin Vasilopoulos
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
ballad for me
From: Steve Whalley
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abstract interpretation of thought process.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:23
Memories of Moog
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Robert Moog
On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass # 835 Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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segment suggested for Aug 23 - 29, 2008

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 16, 2008
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Music Piracy & The Plight of the Starving Artist
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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Grand Theft Audio!

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
New Horizons at Jupiter and Singer Cheryl Wheeler's Orbiting Jupiter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Two encounters with Jupiter, as we get a status report from Alan Stern on the eve of the New Horizons flyby, and we talk with folksinger Cheryl Whe...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2