Songs of the Earth
Behold, an hour of radio packed with exquisite field recordings from all corners of the planet.
2015 / Conor Gillies / Zack Ezor / Qainat Khan / WBUR, USA
Behold, an hour of radio packed with exquisite field recordings from all corners of the planet.
In this episode of Stylus, producers Zack Ezor, Conor Gillies, and Qainat Khan bring us a mosaic of sounds that evoke our natural world - from the rumbling echoes of our deepest chasms to the lonesome music of wind traveling through a barbed-wire fence.
How did the producers weave together dozens of interviews, recordings, and folk songs to create a purposefully "unbridled thing"? Find out... in EXTRA.
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Conor Gillies is a producer based in Cambridge, MA.
Zack Ezor is a producer at WBUR in Boston. An Atlanta native, he now lives with his wife in Somerville, MA. He makes the podcast Kind World.
Qainat Khan is a freelance newscast writer at WBUR in Boston, where she has learned even daily local news can be sublime (in the Romantic sense of the word). She has lived in four states and two countries so far, and has lost track of all the addresses she's ever had. Her favorite address was in Maine.