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27: The People's Choice
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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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
24: Tom Bills: Guitar Maker
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
23: The Great Animal Orchestra
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Following his influential career in music and composition, Bernie Krause decided to leave music behind and devote his efforts to studying the sound...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:50
  • Purchases: 1
21: Nick Zammuto
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The Books were known for making use of sounds and audio samples that aren’t typically heard in music. The Books disbanded in 2012, but Nick Zammuto...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
20: Voicemail Memories
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 1
14: Bicycle Sounds
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?

Bought by WJCT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:24
  • Purchases: 2
10.5: Celestaphone
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A the story and sounds of an instrument made from meteorites.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
10: Rhythm Discovery
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: The 'Shimmer Wall'
Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
It may not sound like medicine...
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Theremin: More Than A Musical Gimmick
From: Vermont Public
Caption: Kevin Colusa playing the theremin in his living room.
You may not know the name, but you'd recognize the sound: that spooky electronic music that's was a staple of science fiction movies. It comes a fr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Ice Drip
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Colors
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...

Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Brainhilda and I
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Carole Starr was a dedicated violinist, until a brain injury left her with a rare hearing disorder. Suddenly the music Carole loved dearly became s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 5
Your Brain On Music
From: WHPC
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
Music in Space
From: Richard Paul
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Everyone who has ever played music in outer space

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WKMS


  • Added: Oct 22, 2007
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 2
Chuck the Seal Learns to Speak
From: BSR Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young harbor seal named Chuck at the Boston Aquarium performs his fledgling talent

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
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
Jazz from Enceladus
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
what's hot on Saturn's tiny moon

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tunnel Singer
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Profile of a singer who is losing her voice.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 6