Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
One-Minute Vacations
The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org.
- 2005
- 01:02
- Aaron Ximm
Object Piece
Based on a short story by Drury Pifer, Object Piece is the story of a man digging his own grave after he loses his wife to a friend.
- 1976
- 08:53
- Randy Thom
Original Kasper's: The Hot Dog Stand That Saved a Neighborhood
Hot dogs are a classic American food. But when is a hot dog more than just a hot dog? When it's a neighborhood mainstay, through years of change.
- 2003
- 25:21
- Peter Thomson
The Obscure News: Anatomy of a Punch, Part Two (INC)
The Obscure News podcast claims to feature "all the news the networks omitted." Dedicated to redeeming the ordinary, it's a chorus of anonymous voices telling those weird little anecdotes that are born every day, all tied together by a steadfast host, driving rhythm, and strategic bits of found sound.
- 2007
- 0
- Lloyd B. King
The Organist
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
- 2013
- 01:01:35
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini
Out of the Blocks
What does an entire city block sound like?
- 2012
- 07:30
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
Ocean Hour
Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not):
- 2007
- 58:51
- Keith Talbot
- Larry Massett
One Way Ticket to Mars
NASA is figuring out how to take the next great leap into space. The difficulty is, if we leap to Mars, we might not make it back.
- 2010
- 09:10
- Roman Mars
Our Day Will Come
Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.
- 2002
- 59:07
- Lex Gillespie