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Mad Scientists of Music - Episode 1 - Learning How to Listen
From: Gareth Stack
Series: Mad Scientists of Music
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Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
The Egyptian Roller Derby Players
From: Angus Mackay
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No-Fear-Teti of Egypt's Cairollers discusses Women's Roller Derby in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 41:06
Unbearable Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Pandal at Durga Puja, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy makes his way throughout the madness that is Durga Puja.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
JazzStories: Mary Halvorson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 18:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Packing Shed
From: Vaska Trajkovska
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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
The Tympanic Eclipse
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Getting cultural theory out of the books and putting it into your ears!
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears. Together with e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: :00
Open House
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Series: Artists Open Houses Festival
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In this intimate piece, exhibitors and curators such as international artist Sam Toft talk about their involvement with the Artists Open Houses Fes...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 11:34
The Last Act
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Series: Artists Open Houses Festival
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With over 1000 artists and makers exhibiting their work in houses, gardens, studios, and shops, the Artists Open Houses Festival demonstrates the i...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 10:04
A Midsummer Night's Dream At The Bungeroosh
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Series: Artists Open Houses Festival
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As part of the Kemptown Trail in the Artists Open Houses Festival, this beautiful Regency town house, inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, featur...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
Your Long Journey
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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The story of the unique bond between a father and son - Danny and Connor Hughes in County Louth who run two shops side by side...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 33:05
A Full Moon Night
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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One pagan’s ritual for the spring equinox.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Shortcuts To Freedom
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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July 4th Classic

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Spokane Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 32
The Scent of Eddie G's Dad Lying Under the Xmas Tree After Pouring Concrete
From: Katie McGowan
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An experimental audio documentary/sound collage on people's perceptions of scents.

  • Added: May 14, 2008
  • Length: 14:27
Canary Song Trials
From: Long Haul Productions
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American Singer Canaries battle it out for best-song-in-show in the Canary Song Trials in Livonia, Detroit.

Bought by PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, WFUV, and WILL


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Avant Guardian
From: David Weinberg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Avant Gurdian fights crime with surrealism

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Rut
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Listeners drop in on a conversation between father and son hunting partners, Rupe and Joe LaRock, who talk about the annual breeding cycle of male ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah
From: Russ Jennings
Series: Days of Wonder
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Music and teachings from the Jewish mystical traditon on the High Holy Days.

Bought by KWIT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNMU-FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2005
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 11
We see it all: life through the eyes of a photo developer
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A photo lab technician ponders our life as he sees it every day, through thousands of personal snapshots

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Audible, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 10, 2004
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 3
Aprendemos Juntos (We Learn Together)
From: Jenn Blair
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Not a single Latino student has ever graduated from the high school in Long Prarie, Minnesota. We went to these Mexican youths to ask them why.

Bought by KGOU, KPFA, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 19, 2004
  • Length: 30:40
  • Purchases: 3
Sit Perfectly Still, The World Will Present Itself to You
From: Claes Andreasson
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An Audio Excursion in Los Angeles

Bought by PRX Remix, WRPI, BSR Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2004
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 4