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If you want to know about a creative spirit, take the case of Zack Baltich. Zack synthesizes his informal and formal music experiences to create so...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 08:20
John and Carol met in 1964 when a computer dating service matched them up. This December, they will have been married for 52 years.
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 2
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 09:22
Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...
Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 2
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 18:22
We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 58:34
A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
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
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The amusing rhythmic sounds of a non-existent video-game. An amusing :60 interstitial.
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: :59
Benjamen Walker, radio producer/host of the Theory of Everything podcast, explains how the book "1984" started in the year 1984.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Episode three takes a journey into the underground world of circuit bending.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode two explores the videogaming backgrounds of a variety of Irish experimental musicians.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:00
Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The Earth gets almost all of its energy from the Sun. It grows plants and creates our climate. Even the fossil fuels we burn are the remains of pla...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:04
This one is about my Linux distribution, SadOS. SadOS used to be based on Xubuntu, and now it’s based on Arch, and I talk about all of that. Many t...
- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 13:45
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
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis to talk about how Agnes fuses pure science and creativity to explore the zone between...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 21:57
In Tampa, FL, Cathy Byrd meets with New York-based video artist Janet Biggs to talk about how her artmaking has become an extreme sport.
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 08:30
In Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets documenta(13)artist Marcos Lutyens for a Hypnotic Session in the Reflection Room.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 21:54
Meditations on aging, death, and end-of-life health care
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 10:00
Existential drama, set in a call centre for the dead. Mr Black delivers a lecture to a select group on the benefits of post-death care.
- Added: May 24, 2011
- Length: 14:42