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Episode 3 ~ Sound Design
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:19
Episode 1 ~ Music in Video Games
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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The importance of music in video games is discussed with local composer, John Hoge.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
Pandora
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we look at Pandora Internet Radio, covering the Music Genome Project, how Pandora works, its history, and the money it pays out.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, Aspen Public Radio, KSKQ, and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Orfield Labs and the Anechoic Test Chamber
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Founded in 1971 by Steve Orfield in Minneapolis, Orfield Labs is the only sound-quality laboratory in the United States. This internationally recog...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:25
46: Dr. Blankenstein
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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It's aliiiive. My guitar pedal is ALIIIIIVE!!!

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:19
Turn Your Radio On: Imaginative Ways Appalachians Joined the Electronic Media Revolution
From: Jacob Podber
Caption: Dr. Jacob J. Podber
Based on oral history interviews, this 29-minute radio documentary examines the effects early radio had on rural America. The program includes inte...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Will Robinson's Brutalist Inspiration
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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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
37: Soundings: A Contemporary Score
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Explore the sounds of the Museum of Modern Art's "Soundings" exhibit.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 12:19
Source Audio Gear Review
From: MEEP! (the band)
Series: The MEEP! Show
Caption: The Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass Distortion, Credit: Source Audio
The MEEP! Show reviews gear from Source Audio.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:35
Pilot Episode - "Any Given Command"
From: Clapping Monkey Productions
Series: Warren Krane
Caption: Warren Krane
Commander Warren Krane and the crew of the Peregrine arrive at Hermitage Station in a remote region of space to attend an Officer's Ball where the ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 21:58
Jazari: robot drum ensemble
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Jazari is a cyborg percussion ensemble. Created by “token human” Patrick Flanagan, its a kind of robot drum circle that includes acoustic bongos, c...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
30: The Silent Age
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: The Silent Age app icon
Sound effects and music define the games we play, but there's one where the sound and music aren't really supposed to be noticed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 17:24
  • Purchases: 1
28: Early Electronic Music
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: A public domain image of the telharmonium in 1897
There's a man who's spent his whole life developing his own library of Electronic music examples.

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 1
27: The People's Choice
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In 1997, three men created the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' songs from completed surveys. Technically, they should be the best and worst songs...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 18:45
26: Gennett Records
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Indiana was a hotbed for KKK activity in the 1920's, but during that time Richmond was the home of a record label that helped pioneer the recording...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 20:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Opera Singer
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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John Aler made his operatic debut in 1977 as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Since then, he’s performed in some of the greatest opera houses i...

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 5
Staccato Cello Fortress
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
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
Can Open Source Tech Save Music?
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Can Open Source Technology Save Music? A conversation with Jesse von Doom & Maggie Vail of CASH Music

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Piracy is the New Radio!
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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The title of this panel comes from the always provocative Neil Young but this is not another debate about the morality of piracy. Anna Troberg (Swe...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Artist Revenue Streams
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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How are today's musicians earning money? Thanks to the Future of Music Coalition's pioneering Artist Revenue Streams project, we finally have some ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 25: Paul Campbell - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Paul Campbell (left); Bobby Pickles (right)
Bobby speaks with Paul Campbell, a British entrepreneur, TV and radio Producer, kettledrummer, and the founder of Amazing, the digital media brand,...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:07:09
22: Audium
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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There's a theatre in San Francisco where they turn off the lights and turn up the volume. Join us as we explore Audium.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gramophone Gods
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Meredith Axelrod
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Musical Robots
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Since the discovery of electricity, artists have been experimenting with science and music, creating machines that synthesize acoustic sounds. Elec...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
Exploring Music with Assisted Technology
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Music making has mass appeal, but what if you couldn't sing? Or speak? Lifeworks' services for people with disabilities includes an innovative musi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1