PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

34 results


Piece image
6 works, including DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Piece image
4 works, including RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli in D Minor, Op. 42; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
Piece image
4 works, including GRIFFES: Kairn of Koridwen, The (Dance-drama for. Ensemble M.

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Piece image
4 works, including GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band (Overture) (Overture) . Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra/Erich Kunzel.

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Piece image
4 works, including BOULANGER: Theme and Variations; Emile Naoumoff, piano.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
Piece image
6 works, including MACKENZIE: Scottish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestr/Martyn Brabbins.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Piece image
6 works, including IRELAND: A Downland Suite. Guildhall String Ensemble.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
Caption: "Enchilada" , Credit: Savannah Bustillo
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
Caption: Eleni Sikelianos, poet
Eleni Sikelianos explores the evolution of the human body.

Bought by KUER, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
Caption: Pauline Oliveros at home, Credit: Karen Michel
Electronic music pioneer and founder of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, born: May 30, 1932, Houston, TX, died: November 24, 2016, Kingston, NY re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Erika Escalante stands in front of her home at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Credit: Angela Johnston
Buena Vista is a diverse community, made up of seniors, families, people with disabilities. The majority of residents are low income, and Latino. P...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:08
Piece image
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
Caption: "Big Time Sensuality" on MoMA's wall., Credit: Sarah Lilley
A 5-1/2 minute, sound-rich ride through the audio-guided Bjork exhibit (much lambasted in the press) at New York's Museum of Modern Art, March 8 th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 07:51
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
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
Piece image
Conversations about where women are (and aren't) in pop culture, from the impact of "Free to Be You and Me" to the evolution of Wonder Woman.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCPN, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Parlour Suite, Credit: LeoGra
The Parlour Suite are fronted by the married duo Joel and Inga Roberts. They are referred to as "Surf Pop" music, though that term seems too limite...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
River Maria Urke is a Stillwater poet, author, and artist. She is the senior editor of the online art and literature journal "The River." Her poetr...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
Piece image
Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
Caption: Gloria Lowe, Credit: Amanda Le Claire
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
The Mother Tongue Monologues present Black women telling it like it is, with all its' truths, brazen acts, shouts and silent revolutions, from slav...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KZYX, WOMR, WJSU, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 5
Piece image
This program describes music's power to heal and bring comfort to those in the final stages of life.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KALW, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3