PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Alder Hey's Dawn Chorus
From: Ed Prosser
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Curve of the Earth
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2007 Third Coast ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
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A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
A Musician's Life: Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves
From: WXPN
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Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
WUTB-Variation 5A -Quiet, Gentle Version
From: David Green
Series: We Used To Believe...
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When you were younger, did you ever believe something which turned out not to be true? How about recently? Producers Aliana and Sophie reveal the w...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Practicing Awareness
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Phil Nyokai James playing the shakuhachi
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 06:37
On the Farm
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Three Views of Farmers

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:25
Love Over Time
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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A reminder that love keeps changing

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 04:01
Marilyn Crispell
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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Crispell combines classical training with great jazz skills

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
Tejidos Culturales 10 Racial Profiling and Beyond
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this program we look at racial profiniling in the valley and beyond, historicly and currently.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
A Musician's Life: Charlie Musselwhite
From: WXPN
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Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite reflects on his life as a blues musician. The blues has helped him through hard times, including the mu...

Bought by KCSM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WQJC, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 4
A Musician's Life: Janis Ian
From: WXPN
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Folk singer Janis Ian reflects on her long career including mistakes she's made along the way.

Bought by KMXT and KUT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
Tejidos Culturales (prog.2)
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A culturally historic piece looking at the San Luis Valley of Colorado.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Aug 14, 2006
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost
From: Joan Schuman
Series: Travels In Stasis
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A musing on the consequences of frequent traveling.

Bought by PRX Remix and WZBC


  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: What I see in your eyes.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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One day, when my first child was just a toddler and I was holding her close, she stopped talking suddenly and leaned quite close to me. Capturing m...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
Home Planet: (Christmas) From the outside.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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I was 20 years old and I felt as alone as anyone could be. I was, as Charles Dickens wrote of Ebenezer Scrooge, as solitary as an oyster.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Four Seconds: Suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge
From: Jake Warga
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Search for meaning of a friends suicide.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KSJD, WSLR and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 12
Musicians on the Record: David Gray
From: WXPN
Series: Musicians on the Record
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Singer-songwriter David Gray muses on a little known album called "Spirit of Eden" by the band Talk Talk

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
In the Gym, Trying to Fit In
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Sitting in the gym, watching the girls play b-ball, and trying to pretend you belong.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 19, 2005
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing The Work Into You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mike Luce builds a casket for his deceased mother.

Bought by PRX Remix, WORLDcompass.org, SALTcast Podcast, and American Public Media


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Women Making Music: Tori Amos
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Tori Amos has always had a one of a kind take on music making. In this three minute vignette she talks about the changes pregnancy and motherhood...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Jolie Holland
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jolie Holland is a Texas-born singer-songwriter with an impressive musical vocabulary and a wandering spirit. The newcomer muses about her life in...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Vermont Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 9
Holding Your Breath
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Micheal Geary has cancer. It could be getting worse. What do you tell the kids?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The World At Your Fingertips
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A look into the world of deafblindness in India

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KFAI Minneapolis, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 12, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Hard to Say
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ninety year old Ed Werler takes listeners on a sentimental journey exploring love and loss.

Bought by PRX Remix, HowSound, WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG and more


  • Added: May 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 14
Last Day in Florence: A Walk
From: Angela Taylor
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This is a personal, sound-rich postcard of one last stroll through the medieval city....

Bought by WKNO


  • Added: Jan 29, 2004
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1