PRX - Pieces for Tone: Intriguing

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Caption: Olivia Block gathering audio in Chicago
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:46
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There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1