PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Caption: Approaching America , Credit: 1905
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Undercast From Stowe Pinnacle, Credit: Brian Aust
"Because too little rain is not enough and too much just makes things worse...." -Peter Rowan

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:30
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You have to command your area. This is my area. This is where I make a living.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
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New Year’s resolutions are a tool for “futurecasting”, to look forward and consider what could happen. Musicians know if they don’t practice they c...

Bought by KMFA and WUAL


  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
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Highlights from a 2016 lunchtime concert at the Charles H. Morris Center, the day after Hayes and Cahill performed at the Lucas Theatre for the Art...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
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200 W Saratoga: One block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.
Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
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6300 Reisterstown Road: One Block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 48:22
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6300 Reisterstown Road: One Block. Everybody's story.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Here we are and thus we go – upon the merry-go-round we journey so. . . Join Unbroken Circle tenali for a spellbinding look-see into the puzzling n...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:52:24
Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith
In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Microphone, Credit: Grant https://www.flickr.com/photos/visual_dichotomy/
What do our voices say about us? On this edition we explore voice and identity. We'll hear from someone who nearly lost their voice as well as the ...

Bought by WNJR and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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Poet Marlene Azoulai reads three poems, a memorable mix of words, sounds and music. Poem titles: "Mental Dis-order," "Blood Love," and "Mute."

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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Tom Townsley reads a cycle of three Oneida Lake poems - a mix of words, sound and music.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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Tom Townsley reads his poem, The Veil - words and music.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: :57
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Bessarabia Ghost Tapes is a haunting soundscape that weaves the voices of Holocaust survivor oral histories from the Centropa Foundation with 1940s...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 53:09
Caption: Amnon Weinstein, with a Violin of Hope, Credit: Ken Lambla
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Following the ancient path of Ulysses, Soundwalk Collective continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
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The Cutting Edge looks at the life of the Emmy award-winning journalist, Gil Noble- considered as America's best known and most influential African...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:11