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Caption: Zack Baltich, Credit: Matt Barber
If you want to know about a creative spirit, take the case of Zack Baltich. Zack synthesizes his informal and formal music experiences to create so...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
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John and Carol met in 1964 when a computer dating service matched them up. This December, they will have been married for 52 years.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Amanda Sanfilippo, Credit: Fringe Projects Miami
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:22
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Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...

Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A Dangerous Things kit, Credit: Alison Bruzek
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 18:22
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We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
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A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
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What's lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear, perhaps nothing. But to one composer, these "lost sounds" are a source for...

Bought by WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kris Halpin In The Studio, Credit: Robin Valk
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:55
Caption: David Rose
Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The amusing rhythmic sounds of a non-existent video-game. An amusing :60 interstitial.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: :59
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Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode three takes a journey into the underground world of circuit bending.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Episode two explores the videogaming backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The Earth gets almost all of its energy from the Sun. It grows plants and creates our climate. Even the fossil fuels we burn are the remains of pla...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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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
Caption: Ruji C., Credit: Ruji C.
This one is about my Linux distribution, SadOS. SadOS used to be based on Xubuntu, and now it’s based on Arch, and I talk about all of that. Many t...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: Cello Fortress Logo, Credit: Joost van Dongen
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Agnes Meyer-Brandis and her Moon Geese experiment, Credit: © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst 2012
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis to talk about how Agnes fuses pure science and creativity to explore the zone between...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 21:57
Caption: Janet Biggs, Vanishing Point, Credit: Janet Biggs
In Tampa, FL, Cathy Byrd meets with New York-based video artist Janet Biggs to talk about how her artmaking has become an extreme sport.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:30
Caption: Marcos Lutyens, Credit: Cathy Byrd
In Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets documenta(13)artist Marcos Lutyens for a Hypnotic Session in the Reflection Room.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 21:54
Caption: Narrator at Matsushima Bay, Japan, Credit: Sam Bader
Meditations on aging, death, and end-of-life health care

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
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Existential drama, set in a call centre for the dead. Mr Black delivers a lecture to a select group on the benefits of post-death care.

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 14:42