Audio by Adam » avant-garde http://www.audiobyadam.com Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:41:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries - An ever-fattening blog with scores (soon to be 100s) of the sound-rich radio stories and documentaries Adam Phillips has done over 25 years for National Public Radio, the CBC, and, since 1993, the Voice of America, where he is on staff. Phillips' interests are truly eclectic - there are almost no subject that do not engage him, and through his careful use of ambient sound and interviews, lure us in as well. Categories include Americana, religion and spirituality, New York life, arts, offbeat science, oral history, and lots and lots of "other." Phillips has won nearly 20 awards for his work. He is also an adjunct professor at the New School's Graduate School of Media Studies, and teaches oral history workshops. Adam Phillips no Adam Phillips adam@audiobyadam.com adam@audiobyadam.com (Adam Phillips) 1984-2010 Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries radio,documentaries,NPR,human interest,VOA,Americana,profiles,spirituality,New York,immigrants,ethnic,audio,features Audio by Adam » avant-garde http://audiobyadam.com/audio/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/rss.jpg http://www.audiobyadam.com New (serious) Music for Toys http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/new-serious-music-for-toys/ http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/new-serious-music-for-toys/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:53:51 +0000 adamphillips http://audiobyadam.com/?p=208
  • Traditional Spiritual Music of Hawaii (Radio Smithsonian)
  • The Spiritual Music of Hawaii
  • Yo-Yo Ma and “Songs of Joy and Peace” Album
    • ]]>     Avant-garde musical artists have always liked to stretch the limits of what traditional musical instruments can do. But some artists have gone even farther and explored the less orthodox music of familiar objects.  This story explores the experimental music written especially for toys as performed in a concert in hipster Brooklyn.  Features toy piano virtuouso Margaret Leng Tan, a balloon composer and instrumentalist, and Isabel Negron, among others.

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    1. Traditional Spiritual Music of Hawaii (Radio Smithsonian)
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    ]]>     http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/new-serious-music-for-toys/feed/ 0 avant-garde,baloonns,John Cage,Margaret Leng Tan,MATA,Music,toys Avant-garde musical artists have always liked to stretch the limits of what traditional musical instruments can do. But some artists have gone even farther and explored the less orthodox music of familiar objects. Avant-garde musical artists have always liked to stretch the limits of what traditional musical instruments can do. But some artists have gone even farther and explored the less orthodox music of familiar objects.  This story explores the experimental music written especially for toys as performed in a concert in hipster Brooklyn.  Features toy piano virtuouso Margaret Leng Tan, a balloon composer and instrumentalist, and Isabel Negron, among others. adamphillips no 7:13     Profile: Pamelia Kursten and the Art of the Theremin (VOA May 2003) http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/the-art-of-the-theremin-voa-may-2003/ http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/the-art-of-the-theremin-voa-may-2003/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:01:27 +0000 adamphillips http://audiobyadam.com/?p=182
  • Profile: Art Spiegelman “Maus” Creator & Comics and Graphics Novel Artist
  • Profile: Yo-Yo Ma, Peaceful Virtuoso (VOA 2009)
  • Profile: Maxine Greene – Educator, Philosopher, Humanist (VOA 2009)
    • ]]>     Pamelia Kursten is the 21st century’s greatest theremin virtuosa, who has turned an instrument most associate with creepy sci-fi “woo-woo” music into an art form. Hear what she has to say and how she does it in this sound-rich piece, originally produced for the Voice of America’s “Our World” science program.

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    1. Profile: Art Spiegelman “Maus” Creator & Comics and Graphics Novel Artist
    2. Profile: Yo-Yo Ma, Peaceful Virtuoso (VOA 2009)
    3. Profile: Maxine Greene – Educator, Philosopher, Humanist (VOA 2009)

    ]]>     http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/the-art-of-the-theremin-voa-may-2003/feed/ 0 avant-garde,Brooklyn,Clara Rockmore,Good Vibrations,Music,Pamelia Kursten,The Swan,Theremin Pamelia Kursten is the 21st century's greatest theremin virtuosa, who has turned an instrument most associate with creepy sci-fi "woo-woo" music into an art form. Hear what she has to say and how she does it in this sound-rich piece, Pamelia Kursten is the 21st century's greatest theremin virtuosa, who has turned an instrument most associate with creepy sci-fi "woo-woo" music into an art form. Hear what she has to say and how she does it in this sound-rich piece, originally produced for the Voice of America's "Our World" science program. adamphillips no 8:30