Everything Sounds

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Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, culture, and our everyday lives.

Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, culture, and our everyday lives. Each program aims to highlight people, places, and ideas that expand our understanding of the power of sound. The program is independently produced and hosted by Craig Shank and George Drake Jr.


58 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
56: Marvin the Greeter
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Marvin goes to the same spot each morning. It doesn’t matter what the weather’s like or what day it is, he’s there trying to make people’s days bet...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1
55: Restaurant Sound Design
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Clark Wolf has consulted to restaurants, hotels, and just about every type of venue where people gather to enjoy food. Part of his job is to think ...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 4
54: Shapenote
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Shapenote and the Sacred Harp songbook are still allowing people to share a musical experience until this day. Learn more about this tradition from...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 18:00
  • Purchases: 1
53: The Black Country
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: The flag of the Black Country
The Black Country, an area of the West Midlands in England, is known for a unique dialect that can be difficult for modern English speakers to clea...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 19:21
52: livingvoid
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Jack Chuter collected submissions of self-portraits in audio for a compilation called, livingvoid. The compilation features 80 one-minute tracks by...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 13:19
  • Purchases: 1
51: Zappa Dummy
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:11
  • Purchases: 1
50: Jukebox Collector
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Put a few quarters in the machine and listen to learn more about the "jutebox" confusion, the Gullah roots of the machine's nickname, and how jukeb...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 19:42
  • Purchases: 1
49: Mad Genius
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Mad Genius is an artists' collective that remixes the world with whatever they want to use.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 2
48: From Here to Ear
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A listen into birds making music with string instruments.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:14
47: The Heartbeat
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
46: Dr. Blankenstein
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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It's aliiiive. My guitar pedal is ALIIIIIVE!!!

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:19
45: Sounds of Skateboarding
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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An exploration into skateboarding's rhythmic, musical and hypnotic side.

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:37
  • Purchases: 2
44: The Sounds of IU
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The picture of Indiana University is painted by students' audible vignettes.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:39
43: The Legacy of Spence Broughton
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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How would the legacy of your great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather be passed on if he was a notorious criminal?

  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 20:54
42: Piano Across America
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Dotan Negrin is a street performer who travels with his upright piano and dog Brando all over the country.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 13:57
40: London Parakeets
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 23:07
39: NYC Foresight
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Explore the hypothetical solutions to real issues caused by technology.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 13:20
38: Musician's Building
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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An apartment building on West 67th Street in New York was built with musicians in mind.

Bought by WABE and KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
  • Purchases: 2
37: Soundings: A Contemporary Score
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Explore the sounds of the Museum of Modern Art's "Soundings" exhibit.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 12:19
36: Bambaataa's Open Archive
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Afrika Bambaataa's vinyl archive was on display for one month in New York City.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:04
  • Purchases: 2

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