KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Series 2, July 29, 1985, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1985.07.29.B

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

126 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1985-07-29 | broadcast
| 1985-07-29 | created

Description

This program is the sixth in a new series of ambient field recordings from around the world. The original World Ear Project series was broadcast on KPFA in the early 1970s, as the portable cassette recorder first made such an ambitious undertaking economically affordable. In this, the second series, the idea of collecting sounds from unique and unusual environments from all over the world remains the same, however the advances in field recording technologies, including digital recording, make for a much higher quality experience. In this program Susan Stone, Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman, and Melanie Walker present tapes recorded in Philadelphia, California, Egypt, Borneo, and other locations.

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

[walk in the woods in Mundraching, Germany with Stephan Micus, part 2] / Charles Amirkhanian -- [walk through the Exploratorium, San Francisco, California] / Melanie Walker -- [cicadas at sunset in Borneo, Indonesia] / Tom Sloan -- [waterfall in Sequoia National Park, California, June 1985] / Ty Allison -- [a toy “rock-a-bye bear” with sounds of the womb] / Susan Stone

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Nature sounds
Animal sounds
Waterfront sounds
Plants -- Germany
Conversations
Hearts sounds

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Friedman, Richard
Stone, Susan, 1952-
Amirkhanian, Charles
Micus, Stephan
Walker, Melanie
Sloan, Tom
Allison, Ty