To mark ten amazing years of celebrating sound and story, we’re closing out this year’s Conference with something a little different - a special conversation about inspiration, collaboration, creativity, and storytelling that will leave your ears ringing... in a good way. (more)

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man’s obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture. (more)

This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance. (more)

In a time when commercial interests continue to stake a claim to audiences’ attentions on the Internet, artists continue to explore the narrowcast as a vehicle for simultaneously cultivating an audience and developing a body of work. (more)

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach. (more)

Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks. (more)

This hour: a woman investigates a secluded religious community, another secretly tapes her interactions with paint store owners, and yet another peels back the layers of “geek speak.” (more)

This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain. (more)

What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art. (more)

How trees affect me as a photographer. (more)

A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation. (more)

Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage. (more)

Award-winning producer Curtis Fox has covered arts and culture for many years, first for public radio, and more recently as a full-time podcaster. (more)

Kenneth Goldsmith explores the audio interstices between sound art, found sound, and the full gamut of noises that humans make. (more)

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

For the 2006 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with cartoonist and illustrator Matt Madden. (more)

This hour: inside the the lives and works of two great American artists, painter Edward Hopper and poet Anne Sexton. (more)

Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer. (more)

This is an excerpt from Curtis Fox's portrait of Walt Whitman, one of the world's greatest poets, and his radical vision of America. (more)

This hour: the experience of the city -- from the bicycle seat, the planner’s map, and the poet’s pen. (more)