Hearing Voices from NPR®:
016 Bugs and Birds— For Summer Solstice
Host— Jeff Rice of Western Soundscape Archive
Airdates— 6/18/2008 - 6/25/2008
Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of sounds for the start of Summer: an extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town, car alarms made from bird calls, breeding moths for their music, a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison, dancing with gnats, the seismic underground sounds of spiders, and the perspective of a pest controller. Stories by Long Haul Productions, M’Iou Zahner Ollswang, host Jeff Rice, and Scott Carrier; and recordings by Nina Katchadourian, Lang Elliot, and Dr. Rex Cocroft.
Produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Bugs and Birds (53:00 mp3):
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Dylan, the producers of “Lord God Bird,” Long Haul Productions, commissioned that music. You can download it for free at their site:
http://longhaulpro.org/pages/series/heartland.html#lordgod
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The Surfjan Stephens song is beautiful.