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Flipping the Gaze, "Refresh" in VR Embodies the Disembodied
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Lela Pierce stands before a projection by Snow Yunxue Fu, Credit: Courtesy of the Gordon Parks Gallery in St. Paul
How do we experience a gallery in digital space? That question gets explored by new media artist Snow Yunxue Fu and dance artist Lela Pierce in "Re...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Sonic Legacy of Leif Brush and His Terrain Instruments
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Leif Brush
Leif Brush was a pioneering sound artist based in Duluth since the mid 1970s. His Terrain Instruments were just some of the audible sculptures tha...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Guitar genius and NEA Jazz Master Pat Metheny talks about Song X with Ornette Coleman, his first album, Bright Size Life, and guitar improvisation.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 9
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
What is Color?
From: Lauren Gramley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Can you describe color without using words linked to your sense of sight?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Borderlands
From: The Organist
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This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 36:40
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Metheny grew up in a musical family, starting on trumpet at the age of eight and switching to guitar a few years later. By age 15 he was mentored b...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
The Untold Story of the 2017 Governor's Fishing Opener in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this "experimental" installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, it's Fishing on the Radio as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 35:23
Mad Scientists of Music - Episode 2 - Growing Up Digital
From: Gareth Stack
Series: Mad Scientists of Music
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Episode two explores the videogaming backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Michael L-5
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: New Artists
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Steven Bickell hosts New Artists: Featuring Mn Artist/Musician Michael L-5 Leitheiser

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 35:18
  • Purchases: 1
Raimi Gbadamosi (excerpt)
From: Erin Bosenberg
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Project Anywhere - art and research http://www.projectanywhere.net/erin-bosenberg-listening-for-narrative-bringing-intimacies-into-the-public-pres...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
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
Other People's Stories
From: Tobin Low
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When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
Djixx On the Couch
From: Constance A. Dunn
Series: On the Couch...
Caption: Djixx, Credit: Constance A. Dunn
Singer Djixx of the dance hall band Sevdah Baby talks to Constance A. Dunn about life, music and almonds.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 38:02
Silence
From: Conor Gillies
Series: Stylus
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Is there such a thing as true silence?

Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ken Nerger
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Ken Nerger (Detail), Credit: Emile B. Klein
Surviving cancer, the economy and a haunted house.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:26
The same socks
From: Guisane Humeau
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A dreamlike trip inside the workshop of the French sculptor and musician Robert Hébrard.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
Sound, Art and Enchantment
From: Isabel Theriot
Caption: The Music Box art and sound installation
This radio documentary is about the Music Box art and sound installation located in the Bywater Neighborhood of New Orleans. It blends the sounds o...

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Steampunk among the steam trains
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Steampunk among the steam trains: lifestyle/fashion event celebrates a past vision of the future. Amy Clark brings us a conversation with Richard R...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 2
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Stuart Saunders Smith: PLAY
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"New Music," Transmedia, and Animal Pantomime

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 08:44
Art Box Extraordinaire
From: Chris Mortenson
Caption: Open House at the Art Box
The voices and sounds of the temporary "Studio Arts" building at the University of Iowa.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 18:46
Continental Divide
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Shekaiba Wakili's aunt was en route to New York, September 11, 2001, when her plane turned around and flew back to Peshawar, Pakistan. Shekaiba str...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
The Blue Morph
From: Claes Andreasson
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The Sound of a Butterfly's Metamorphosis

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:08:08
  • Purchases: 2