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IN THE NEWS
Vibrations,
Vol. 2, #4

Finding Your Audience
Radio Art, Radio Silence
Loads of Downloading


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Explore the world at the International Music Archives

Your  roots are showing. Hear the NPR report on the African-American origin of barbershop quartet music.

Speaking of roots, take a trek with RootsWorld.

Mr. Kaiser Goes to Antarctica. How did guitarist Henry Kaiser manage to move his fingers in the coldest place on the planet? 

Crank it! Literally. Get radio off the beaten track, off the power grid with dynamo and solar products FreePlay, CrankNGo and SunStar.

Walk the exotic jungles of the corporate world and hear residents sing their company songs.

Radio archaelogy: hear the ghosts of music radio past




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Our Music Port is the home to one of the world's most unique audio-video concert halls.

It also includes state-of-the-art salons and listening booths, backed by one of the world's largest libraries of recorded music and media.

It's like a time-and-space travel machine that can whisk you away to another country or another decade.

Step inside the concert.

Instead of limiting you to the typical "TV-eye view," our large-screen views can capture the backstage, the audience, the venue, and even the street outside that venue.

You're immersed, part of the crowd. You're not watching it on TV - you're experiencing what it's like to actually be there.

Tune in to Timbuktu.

What's playing on the radio in Mali right now? How about in Denmark? Delhi? Detroit?

At the Music Port, you can tune in to live broadcasts from around the world. Surf the globe for new music - real-time and unfiltered.

Travel back in time.

Just because you missed a great concert, a great recording or a great decade doesn't mean you have to miss it.

Familiar artists and music historians appear on our audio/video terminals and act as virtual guides to usher you through our archives… sharing their secrets and musical influences along the way.

You'll find what you're looking for, but don't be surprised if you also find yourself spending hours in the Port, jumping from link to link, chasing music that you never knew existed.





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Hit the Road: the legendary Silk Road, with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and a global troupe of artists.

Watch your step, but listen to
elephants in Thailand improvise on specially designed instruments.

Explore BBC's Global Top 10s, created by over 80 labels around the world.



Overheard

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

--Plato

The one I gave my heart to is my favorite song.

-- Aaliyah