PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sound-Rich

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Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat". She's also one of five...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: Calypso Bulbosa fairy slipper orchid, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
This sound rich piece takes listeners into the forests of Colorado on a hunt for native and exotic orchid species.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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A sailor return to Hawaii on the Matson Line. Music & Vocals by Dennus & Christy Soares. Lyrics by Larry W Jones.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: A. Johns, Credit: A. Johns Facebook
Life On The Horizon, the music project of songwriter A. Johns, is in the middle of releasing multiple recordings as he talks with Up Close And Aco...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 56:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 01:41
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On this episode of The Live Feed, I visit with legendary soukous guitarist, vocalist and composer Siama Matuzungidi. He’ll be joined with musicians...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Tina Dybvik occasionally sounds off in the Downtown St. Paul Voice, her verse has appeared in Huff/Post 50, the Meloncholy Dane Quarterly, and Iron...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 38:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Marjorie Buettner's new collection of haibun is "Some Measure of Existance" recently published by Red Dragonfly Press which has also published coll...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
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Jill Dermody is currently working on the third draft of her book, "The Skyrian Memoirs", about her experience volunteering on a horse farm in Greec...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Sister Rosetta Tharp electrified 1930s audiences with her singing and guitar playing. "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" influenced the music of Elv...

Bought by WJCT, WYAP, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Sister Rosetta Tharp electrified 1930s audiences with her singing and guitar playing. "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" influenced the music of Elv...

Bought by KZUM, KISA Digital Studios, Interlochen Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 23
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: Chris Simon,Chris Strachwitz & Maureen Gosling, San Francisco, CA 9/3/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chris Strachwitz, Chris Simon, & Maureen Gosling talk first recordings, Jim Crow, and why this music matters.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 28, 2014
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Bowmans (Claire & Sarah), Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
The bands The Bowmans and Famous October visit Up Close And Acoustic to talk about the evolution of their music and play some harmony-filled, melod...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:12
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Originally from the Finger Lakes area of New York state. She's a world traveler who settled in at the University of Michigan for her BFA degree in ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Josh Wiggins and Kat Candler, San Francisco, CA 4/28/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Kat Candler and Josh Wiggins talk homework, evolution, and grilled cheese sandwiches.

  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 10:21