Suggested Listening
Individual Audio Pieces
- Vicki Bennett’s No one Is an Island
- The Novelist by Natalie Kestecher (from ABC RN)
- Some Assembly Required Episode 233
- DJ Fitz: Middle Eastern & Maghreb Disco Funk from the Golden Era (from David Byrne Radio)
- Longform’s 2014 interview with George Saunders
- Mr Gosh Sound Collage Voice Cried Softly
- No More Lord (that one Joe Frank piece free on youtube
- Field Reports From 非場所 from Soundproof
Radio/Podcast/Audio Series
- SoundProof -ABC RN
- Some Assembly Required – no longer on the air, but the archives still exist
- White Whale at CynarPictures – a little bit of everything
- Basement Tapes of the Mole Cabal
- Do or DIY on WFMU
- Paper Radio – not quite a show, wonderful
- Longform – Interviews with writers
- Unfictional -KCRW
- Short Cuts BBC4 & Re:Sound Third Coast
- Love + Radio – Radiotopia
- Radiotonic– ABC RN, No longer on the air
- Playlists from Third Coast
- The Shadow
- Pure Radio – podcast of genre-less mixes
- Headphone Commute
- Blue Jam
- This is That – CBC’s satirical news
- Radio Ravioli – live collage
Sound projects, Stations & Festivals
- Radio Atlas– an ongoing attempt to subtitle great audio that happens to not be in English
- Listen to Wikipedia
- MyNoise – Ambiance (not for manipulation/use)
- Radio Aporee – sound map of the world
- Wavefarm – Audio arts in the Hudson valley
- Megapolis – Audio festival
- HearSay – Audio arts festival
- Radiophrenia – Broadcast audio arts festival
- Third Coast – Radio festival
Audio Galleries & Databases
- Ubu Web – Directory of sound art
- Podcast in Color – a directory of podcasts featuring nonwhite voices
- Earlid – Online audio arts gallery
- Her Noise Archive
- Creative Audio Archive
- British Library Sounds (not for use)
- Sound Art Chine Archive
- Seth Cluett Sound Art Links
- New American Radio Archive
For Creators
- SpareMin Audiogram (now Headliner) – for making easily shareable audio bits (twitter/facebook)
- Audioset – “database of annotated audio events” for sound searches
- CC Search – Creative Commons search engine
- Archive.org – One of the most important places on the internet
- Frequency Chart
- Free Music Archive
- Reaper Shortcuts (if you haven’t customized) and Pro tools Shortcuts
Other Software for Playing with Sounds
- Audacity – free audio editing
- Wavosaurous – more free audio editing
- Xronomorph – for loops. Good fun
- Soundplant – turn your keyboard into a sampler