KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Series 2, May 27, 1985, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1985.05.27.A

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

121 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1985-05-27 | broadcast
| 1985-05-27 | created

Description

This program is the fourth 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, Richard Friedman, and Ty Allison present an entertaining amalgam of tape recordings made in ambient situations from around the globe.

Genres

Soundscapes
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[gathering of women at a reunion in La Jolla, California] / Susan Stone - Windows / John Rieger -- [orchestra rehearsal] / Roxanne Merryfield -- [Native American Powwow, Long Beach, California] / Gregg McVicar -- [a walk outdoors with two children in Alexander, Arkansas] / Jason & Brandy Raspberry -- [thunderstorm, San Francisco, California, Sept. 1984] / Rick Totta (sp?)

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Ocean sounds
Soundscapes (Music)
Music rehearsals
Powwows
Nature sounds
Animal sounds

Related places

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

Related Entities

Friedman, Richard
Stone, Susan, 1952-
Allison, Ty
Rieger, John H.
Merryfield, Roxanne
McVicar, Gregg
Raspberry, Jason
Raspberry, Brandy