What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances... (more)

An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye. (more)

Musical murder trial with a twist. (more)

“Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is one of the most ambitious and enduring pop songs of all time. (more)

Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH. (more)

Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall." (more)

Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree. (more)

Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads. (more)

Radio makers have many techniques at their disposal for crafting each story they tell, including one in particular that gets used and abused more than any other: scoring. (more)

It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away. (more)

This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America. (more)

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again. (more)

Endings in radio used to serve a purpose: they used to signal to a live audience that the time to applaud was near. But this has changed now, prompting Sara Fishko to take a look at the outdated “ending” and to piece together some favorite final moments for a Big Finish. (more)

Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from his past and that he lives mostly in the present. (more)

Music and sound bring layers of meaning to your work. Incorporating them most effectively starts with looking for the movement and metaphor in your materials. Using examples from her own features, Sherre DeLys presents different approaches to integrated sound design. (more)

A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite. (more)

This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio. (more)

For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck. (more)

Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity. (more)