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Healing With Music
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For teenagers dealing with substance abuse issues, talking about what they’re feeling can be a challenge. So one music therapist uses rock and heav...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Distillations Episode 153: Best of Distillations #10
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: attempts to contact aliens in space and the secret behind th...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 15:34
Sound therapist Frank DiCristina
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Sound is used to inform, entertain, communicate, and even heal. The ancient art of sound healing helps ease pain and stress, facilitates spiritual ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Summer of Extremes 2012 ( or Why You DO Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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A "newsical" look at the weather...the extreme weather as we enter July...how the mainstream media report the weather...told thru narration, music ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 55:14
Treasure Hunters 12-13
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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On our next show: Treasure Hunters.

Bought by WCRI, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WEKU, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Colorful Noise
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From record players and tape decks to digital images, noise is a constant in our lives. But our ears have a unique relationship with colorful noise.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
Into the World of Synesthesia
From: Alex Lewis
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
Distillations Episode 136: Good Vibrations - A Symphony of Science
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: This printer’s mark shows three putti holding a harp and a compass, combining the measure and tone of music with the precision of mathematics. Title page detail from Francesco Algarotti's Dialoghi sopra la luce, i colori e l'attrazione... , Credit: Image courtesy of the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Othmer Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage Foundation.
On this episode of Distillations we investigate if there's science behind the sweet sounds of a Stradivari violin and learn how chemistry influence...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: New dimesions
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Diagram of the holometer at Fermi Lab
In this episode, stories of two researchers: one measuring the shape of music, and another hunting for signs that the world is flat.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bay Area composer scores the soundtrack of outer space
From: KALW
Caption: Bay Area composer Christopher Hedge designed the sound for the Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium
If you've been to the planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences recently, then you've heard Christopher Hedge's work on the show "Life: A C...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Theremin: More Than A Musical Gimmick
From: Vermont Public
Caption: Kevin Colusa playing the theremin in his living room.
You may not know the name, but you'd recognize the sound: that spooky electronic music that's was a staple of science fiction movies. It comes a fr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Ice Drip
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Colors
From: Ed Herrmann
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What do colors sound like? Sound and light are both waves or vibrations, but light is vibrating much faster. The frequencies of the visible colors ...

Bought by KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Brainhilda and I
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Carole Starr was a dedicated violinist, until a brain injury left her with a rare hearing disorder. Suddenly the music Carole loved dearly became s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 5
Thomas Stockman: The man who made the DVD and the CD possible
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Thomas Stockham, an electrical engineer, pioneered digital recording.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
Theremin
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
The Saxophone
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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We associate the saxophone with the mellowness of jazz, but it roots are very hotheaded. The saxophone evolved from a bass clarinet built by the Be...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Zildjian Cymbals
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Zildjian cymbals have a long history: Beginning in 1618 with the Mustafa the First, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:57
Disk vs. Disc
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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How we spell the word disk affects how you view laws about copying recordings of music and movies. Lying in the balance is billions of dollars, and...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
Psychiatric Blind Music Therapist
From: Larry Carlson
Series: Music is Therapy
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Interview With Blind Music Therapist

  • Added: Jul 31, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
In the Key of DNA: Music & Evolution
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
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Cheesecake? Or sex, baby talk, and social interaction? Set in the Key of DNA, The Nerve 2 examines what the purpose of music is and has been, yeste...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KVNF, The WFMT Radio Network and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 18
Enchanted, Entranced: Music & Spirituality
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
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The Nerve 4 congregates a variety of opinions from multiple faiths to adress why music so enchants and entrances us.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KISU, The WFMT Radio Network, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 17
myTunes: Music & Identity
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
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Just how much power does music have to create a sense of "me" and "you", of "us" and "them"? How can songs written by other people be described as ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KISU, The WFMT Radio Network, KVNF and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 18
Sentimental Journey: Music & Emotion
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
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The Nerve 6 wonders whether music really is the language of our emotions.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KISU, The WFMT Radio Network, KVNF, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 17
The Pipe, the Drum and the Thunder Run: Music & War
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
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From pipes, to drums, to thunder runs, The Nerve 3 takes a serious look at the dark side of music.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, The WFMT Radio Network, Radio New Zealand, WPSU and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 16

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