Orchestrated exercise tapes from the 1920s. The first audio ad for a soda. A man in 1906 describing the weather in Omaha. Live opera captured by a librarian stumbling around the catwalks with a phonograph. These are just a few of the thousands of recordings made before 1923 that are entering the public domain on January 1st, 2022.

We’re working with the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and other archives to bring the newly available audio in their archives to life in a celebration of the beginnings of recorded sound. Live Q&A TBD. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

The show that started our listening series idea: it’s a sonic representation of the pandemic's early days. We’ll go from the banality in our homes, to the bustle of life before the pandemic, and as far away from the earth as possible. Featuring walruses, pulsars, funnels, dentistry, a deconstructed organ, and Chris’s wayward belt buckle. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

What is time these days anyway? György Ligeti and John Cage skip rope with Tony Schwartz’s niece, while a man in England details a year's worth of eating. This evening has a whole day in one spot in sub-Saharan Africa, a song that lasts hundreds of years, and more metronomes than you can shake a stick at. Live Q&A with Leah Reid. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

Just a fancy way of saying that we’re going places. We’ll visit Cairo in the 30s, Berlin in the 40s, New York City in the 50s, an iceberg in Antarctica, the deepest place on earth, Alvin Lucier’s room, and a curious parade of forest elephants in the Dzanga Bai. Q&A with Winderen. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

This is a night with the Kronos Quartet—the music, sonic experiments, and sounds that inspire its work, beginning with the chord from Beethoven that got the whole group started. Q&A with David Harrington. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

Birds. Quiet birds. Loud birds. Birds that never existed. Birds heard by Tiresias, Greek bird-interpreter par excellence. Birds that mimic people. People that mimic birds. From the falcon-headed deity Horus to phoenixes rising from the ashes––humans are bound to the bird. We’re teaming up with BirdNote for an evening of all things ornithological. Live Q&A TBD. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

There are a lot of ways to make a body produce noise. Jacob Kirkegaard knows all about that. The sound artist meticulously recorded an autopsy and a body decomposing. We’re celebrating the whole range of the live human body too: there’s a musical tooter, popping knees, throbbing brain arteries, and grunts aplenty. Q&A with Jacob Kirkegaard. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

An evening with a pioneer in sound-sculptured sensoria. We’ll listen through the expanse of Bill Fontana’s career, from the sonic landscape of Australia during a solar eclipse to the Acqua Vergine aqueducts underneath Rome. Through Fontana’s work we get an experiential education in sound recording, projection, and listening. Q&A with Bill Fontana. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

One of the most ambitious NPR documentaries ever made has a lot to say about cult leaders, but also about journalism and objectivity. The subject of this evening is a first-person account of Jonestown delivered by a person who wasn’t there at all. Afterwards, stalwart public radio journalists Chris and Sam will talk with an NPR producer from the network’s early days about the state of American journalism, and why public radio has forgotten that format––and not just content––matters if you want to make something meaningful. Q&A with Deb Amos. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

Alienation, loneliness, solitude––different sides of a common coin. The mating call of the last remaining bird of its kind. Music made in a cave. There will be a contrapuntal train trip up into Canada’s frozen north, along with a journey deep inside the fjords and glaciers of the Scandinavian Arctic Circle. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.

The only pure music show in the series, brought to us by two electronic musicians who make melodies from hospital apparatus and washing machines and bovine uteri. An original work made for The World According to Sound. **All streaming shows start at 6PM Pacific Time.