Sound Art

Is It Live or Is It Memorex?

Arts, Culture & Media

Producer Jeff Lunden examines how acousticians play with sound,on CDs and in the concert hall. (Originally aired: March 3, 2001)

Sound Map

Arts, Culture & Media

DJ Screw Plays with Time

Arts, Culture & Media

Sound Suit

Arts, Culture & Media

Design for the Real World: Soundmark

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Arts, Culture & Media

Ruben Ortiz Torres is a Mexican artist living in California. For a performance piece, he took lawn equipment, and customized it. He created a metal-flake magenta lawnmower that danced to music. Sara Harris talked to Ortiz Torres about his piece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”

Sonic Smells

Arts, Culture & Media

We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced […]

Car Alarms

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The artist Nina Katchadourian explains how she decided to transform the car alarm, and install her new version that plays tape loops of raucous bird calls in cars on city streets. Produced by Tania Ketenjian.

Above Minnesota

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The sound artist Janek Schaefer got a commission to make something “about Minnesota”. As a Brit, he had to ask friends what defined Minnesota for Minnesotans. They gave him one word: weather. So, during a storm, Schaefer sent a cell phone up into the stratosphere in a weather balloon above Minnesota, to capture the sonic […]

Sonic Smells

Arts, Culture & Media

We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced […]