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12/23/11--15:14: HV129- HannukahCristmashup (chan 1625161)

Christmas at a Bagram Air Base hospital (Afghanistan), a tour of the Holy Land, Hannukah military history, a visit to a toy store; and musical Chrismashups.


12/23/11--23:21: Maccabeats Miracle (chan 1625161)

Light ‘em up, folks, it’s a g-ddam “Miracle”, more Hannukah harmonies from the Maccabeats and for their Miracle Match Bone Marrow Foundation fundraiser: Need more Maccabeats? So did Adolf:


12/28/11--09:09: HV026- Prime Candidates (chan 1625161)

Hearing Voices from NPR® 026 Prime Candidates: Portraits of Past Presidential Primaries Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices Airs week of: 2011-12-28 (Originally: 2008-08-27) Audio will be posted here by 2012-01-04. The plight of pols on the campaign trail: “Claremont” (1980 / 21:30) Larry Massett & Art Silverman From the 1980 primary: politicians who fancy [...]


12/30/11--08:32: Fulton’s Frogs (chan 1625161)

The ZBS Foundation has long been at the forefront of the dramatic radio arts. Their podcast is a great survey of their audio excursions, mixing flights of fancy with real sound effects. Check Podcast #8, “Weird Frogs” (7:55 mp3): Download audio file (8_Meatball’s-Podcast.mp3) “Meatball Fulton plays really weird frogs he recorded in the Amazon, Bali, [...]


01/04/12--07:42: Peter Segal: Cash-for-Tote-Bags Scandal… (chan 1625161)

And other 2012 news hypotheticals from XKCD regarding the NPR Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! host:


01/04/12--09:52: Voices from Tahrir (chan 1625161)

A preview of our upcoming HV hour, “Voices from Tahrir” — a collaboration with Human Rights Watch. This public radio documentary features eyewitness accounts and recordings of the January uprisings (January 25 – February 11 2011) — the one-year anniversary approches: “Voices from Tahrir- preview” (9:51 mp3): Download audio file (Voices_from_Tahrir-draft1a.mp3)


01/05/12--07:58: Move (chan 1625161)

“MOVE” by director Rick Mereki: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films….. = a trip of a lifetime. move, [...]


01/05/12--18:34: Upular (Virtual 3D) (chan 1625161)

Could this Aussie kid be any more talented? An airy-er vers of Pogo’s ‘Upular’: ‘Upular’ (Virtual 3D) by PogoMix Stereo headphones required. Earphones work best. A virtual 3D recording of my track ‘Upular’ playing through a pair of club speakers as you walk around the venue. Someone requested this and I thought it was a [...]


01/06/12--09:42: HV099- Polk Street Stories (chan 1625161)

An oral history of San Francisco's premiere queer neighborhood.


01/09/12--07:10: 800 Newpaper Front Pages (chan 1625161)

“Today’s Front Pages: Map View” is the Newseum’s new map-based browsing app — click open page one of 800+ worldwide newspapers:


01/10/12--07:41: Western Soundscape Archive (chan 1625161)

The Western Soundscape Archive houses thousands of audio recordings: “570 different Western bird species, all of the region’s vocalizing frogs and toads, dozens of reptiles and more than 100 different types of mammals,” with dozens ambient field soundscapes of the West remote wildlands. Many of the recordings are are Creative Commons licensed for non-comm use. Here’s [...]


01/14/12--11:46: HV130- Shortcuts 2011 (chan 1625161)

A year in an hour, in speeches, songs, events, and tributes to people who past last year.


01/18/12--07:10: HV013- Crossing Borders (chan 1625161)

A tale of two countries, from Mexico to US.


01/24/12--09:12: xkcd: Sustainable (chan 1625161)

For decades we in pubradio have been hearing about a mystical “sustainable” creature, s’posed to be lurking around our endeavors: sustainable series, sustainable projects, sustainable programs. Well, ‘cording to the latest xkcd, we’re not alone in constantly chasing but never finding that mythical phantom:


01/25/12--09:41: HV131- Voices from Tahrir (chan 1625161)

Eyewitness, first-person accounts of the January 2011 Egyptian uprising.


01/26/12--08:51: Tahrir Storify (chan 1625161)

[View the story "Voices from Tahrir" on Storify]


02/01/12--07:00: HV052- Circus Blood (chan 1625161)

A world-class troupe of audio daredevils and media magicians.


02/03/12--09:56: Grand Rapids LipDub (chan 1625161)

Here’s some real hyperlocal community journalism for ya, with a beat, “The Grand Rapids LipDub;” The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the [...]


02/03/12--23:25: Clothesline Revival (chan 1625161)

It’s like these 1940s movies were made just so, 70 years later, they could accompany the music of Clothesline Revival: Clothesline Revival has a couple HV connections. They helped create a mess in our Food Fight episode. And we produced the NPR Story “Clothesline Revival’s ‘Long Gone’” (also check NPR’s “Music Review: ‘Of My Native [...]


02/05/12--08:01: Stereogranimator NYPL (chan 1625161)

The NY Public Library has come up with a Stereogranimator: Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library. Witness the Stereogranimator in action:


02/09/12--07:00: HV050- Love’s Labors (chan 1625161)

For Valentine's Day, affairs of the heart and the intricacies of intimacy.


02/14/12--04:11: The Sandpit (chan 1625161)

A short by Aero Film director Sam OHare. “The Sandpit,” A day in the life of New York City, in miniature. Human composed the original music for the film. Shot as a series of 35K stills. Here’s how and who in this director interview.


02/17/12--12:13: a transect – Due East (chan 1625161)

Walking, maps, and art — some of my favorite stuff — are all wrapped up in one project, “a transect – Due East:” A body of work based on a series of cross-country hikes that enabled me to generate visual and written notation, correspondence, interviews and historic research. The location is specific to my homeland [...]


02/18/12--09:45: HV132- Musicality of Speech (chan 1625161)

A history of what composer Steve Reich calls speech-melodies.