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. (more)

For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck. (more)

An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible. (more)

What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances... (more)

A cerebral yet refreshing exploration into the question "where do creative ideas come from?" (more)

How to create a human brain -- from a bowl of mashed potatoes. (more)

In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America’s gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. (more)

A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England. (more)

Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene. (more)

What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way? (more)