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Bay Area Beats: Musical Art Quintet makes the most of the double bass
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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In 2008, double bassist and founder of the Musical Art Quintet, Sascha Jacobsen regularly attended the Sunday night chamber music jams at Cafe Revo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1
Pop-up shop revives Jewish American music
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In San Francisco, the idea of "pop up" is ubiquitous. Pop-ups are temporary businesses, venues, or events that happen suddenly, in unexpected locat...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering a legendary Bay Area jazz club
From: KALW
Caption: “Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club” by Kathy Sloane is published by Indiana University Press.
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Cave
From: Molly Samuel
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Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren’t your usual guitars and drums....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Evolution of the Mash-Up
From: Andrew Davis
Caption: Thru-You YouTube Music Mash-up from User Generated Content, Credit: Thru-You.com / Kutiman
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
(UNTITLED): Jonathan Parker and Catherine DiNapoli on thier comedy about art, artists, and commerce.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jonathan Parker and Catherine DiNapoli talk to Andrea Chase about (UNTITLED), their comedy that examines the world of contemporary avant garde art.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:42
Smallest Gallery in Town
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Take an audio tour of a crawl space turned gallery.

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
#5: Igor Stravinsky and the Art of the Miniature
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Stravinsky@125
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Beloved for his full-length ballets, Stravinsky also created a surprising array of very short pieces for orchestra

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 16:24
Rock This!
From: Catie Talarski
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A glimpse into the world of collegiate a cappella.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 1
Tristan und Isolde Act 2
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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Act 2 of Wagner's opera in three minutes

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Tristan und Isolde Act 1
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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Act 1 of Wagner's opera in three minutes!

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), PRX to iTunes, and WBEZ


  • Added: Sep 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 3
Wind Theory
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the sound of a new explanation of the universe

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Andrew's Mix
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Trading mix tapes with strangers is a work of passion with members of Esther's Mix Tape Collective.

Bought by WBHM, KTNA, WMPG, WILL, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 5
Um
From: paul overton
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The "cutting room floor" yields a musical montage.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2005
  • Length: 01:30
The Zildjian Cymbal Tester
From: Jackson Braider
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Leon Cippini wanted to be a great drummer; he became a great cymbal tester instead.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Singing BeeGees in the Pit
From: Raquel Maria Dillon
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a sound profile of a pit singer

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Feb 26, 2004
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
I Can't Get It Out of My Head
From: Richard Paul
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Why advertising jingles get lodged in your brain

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WFUV, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
UK Bootlegs and Mashups
From: David Clements
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Could this be the next big movement in music?

  • Added: Oct 05, 2003
  • Length: 10:12