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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
If bicycles could write a song, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 16:24
- Purchases: 2
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
Thomas Stockham, an electrical engineer, pioneered digital recording.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:04
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 have a long history: Beginning in 1618 with the Mustafa the First, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:57
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
Two encounters with Jupiter, as we get a status report from Alan Stern on the eve of the New Horizons flyby, and we talk with folksinger Cheryl Whe...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Feb 26, 2007
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
