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Smithsonian Folkways: Sounds to Grow On podcast: "Animal Songs"
In this show, host Michael Asch jumps into the world of animal sounds and songs about animals.
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Wätterschmöcker [Weather Gazers]
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
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Die Spree: Sinfonie eines Flusses [The Spree: Symphony of a River]
This film examines the roles and impact of Berlin’s Spree River, accompanied by a specially composed symphony from Karsten Gundermann.
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Maputo Dancing Dump
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
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Let the Daylight Into the Swamp
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
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A Symphony of Summits. The Alps from Above
A geography and history of the Alps, filmed exclusively with aerial shots.
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Trash Dance
In Trash Dance, choreographer Allison Orr tries to persuade employees of the Austin Department of Solid Waste to participate in a public dance performance.
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Powys, Vicki, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets, "A Little Flute Music: Mimicry, Memory, and Narrativity"
Vicki Powys, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets discuss the sonic achievements of Lyrebirds through concepts of memory and narrativity.
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"Refining Uranium: Bob Wiseman's Ecomusicological Puppetry"
Andrew Mark describes Bob Wiseman’s allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients.
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"Toward a New, Musical Paradigm of Place: The Port River Symphonic of Chester Schultz"
By privileging music as a focus for applied ecology, Robin Ryan aims to deepen perspectives on the musical representation of land in an age of complex environmental challenge.