Did you see that new Van Gogh painting?
Apparently there are lots left to discover.
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Program: All Things Considered
Playtime: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Apparently there are lots left to discover.
Program: All Things Considered
Playtime: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Story of a guy who composes music to be played by volunteers on a whole bunch of boom boxes.
Producer: Jonathan Mitchell
Program: Studio 360
Playtime: 7 minutes
Date: December, 2005
"I work at a bookstore and I get everything delivered there, even dead stuff like squirrels that are frozen. But I don't tell anybody."
Part of a series about New Yorkers called "One in 8 Million," this is a NY Times slide show about Melissa Dixson - a 30 year old hipster taxidermist. Ironic!
Producer: New York Times
Program: One in 8 Million
Playtime: 2 minutes 25 seconds
As of Jan. 30 it will be 40 years since the Beatles last performance - an impromptu performance on top of Apples studios. BBC is airing a documentary later today (which you can stream) that should then be available on this link.
"I work at a bookstore and I get everything delivered there, even dead stuff like squirrels that are frozen. But I don't tell anybody."
Part of a series about New Yorkers called "One in 8 Million," this is a NY Times slide show about Melissa Dixson - a 30 year old hipster taxidermist. Ironic!
Playtime: 2 minutes 25 seconds
From a show that NPR has canceled - Day to Day - the story of the Tijuana art scene and a gallery in a former drug tunnel.
Producer: Jason Beaubien
Program: Day to Day
Playtime: 4 minutes 39 seconds
Date: February, 2009
Studio 360 rebroadcast about the iconic Campbell's Soup paintings.
Producer Anna Yaedell remembers a painting from her childhood, and through it discovers a story exemplifying 20th century Europe. The people of today meet a strong woman who lived through the second world war and far beyond, in Potsdam. A Classic Dox from Radio Netherlands, originally broadcast in 2004.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 29 minutes 30 seconds
Taking performance art to the level of a stunt, as much as a project. Ronan Kelly details provocative arts works that caused a public stir, in Sweden, Ireland, and the UK.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 16 minutes 18 seconds
A rich profile of Delia Derbyshire, the 1970s electronic musician at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who created the Dr Who theme.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 58 minutes
Sound Tourism maps places worth a visit because they sound so good. In this example, curator Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, UK, introduces the great Stalacpipe Organ in Virgina, USA. By tapping stalactites with mallets, it claims to be the world's largest natural musical instrument.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 15 seconds
Pédilüv is a radio art programme, produced at Campus Radio in Paris. This episode, The Sound of Noise, has more English language content than usual, from a range of sources: The Global Theatre of the Air, Adam Boham, The Poo Lord, John Cage, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It's curious, and curiously engaging.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 30 minutes
Sound Rich, Radio, poetry, Weird, Art
The artist Marcus Coates recorded the dawn chorus in English woodlands; he then slowed down the recordings, and filmed human singers perform the newly approachable songs in everyday English settings. Then, he speeded the footage back up again. The sound is extraordianary – and in this case, so is the video.
Audio Documentary Europe
Playtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds