One of the coolest radio shows is the world is Ears Have Ears, featured on Australia’s FBi Radio 94.5fm, every Thursday night from 9-11.  Artists love the show so much that they contribute original music, with an emphasis on soundtracks.  Ears Have Ears is a great resource, and will provide newcomers with days of new music.  Mainstream radio may be stagnant, but the variety of creative contributions on display here is enough to renew one’s faith in radio as a venue for pushing things forward, rather than preserving the status quo.  Even better: in the modern era, one need not possess a large transistor radio to tune in to the show.  All one needs is a computer and the desire to be engaged!

At A Closer Listen, we review a lot of experimental music and receive five times as much as we review.  But to find so much

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Listen in as Eric Leonardson and Monica Ryan celebrate World Listening Day 2014 by reflecting on the work of R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project. Interviewees Professor Sabine Breitsameter of Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany) and Professor Barry Truax of Simon Fraser University (Canada) discuss the impact of Schafer’s ideas and offer commentary on contemporary threads within the field of Acoustic Ecology. How does does Acoustic Ecology help us to think through today’s complex environments and how can listeners like you make a difference?

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Eric Leonardson is a Chicago-based audio artist and teacher. He has devoted a majority of his professional career to unorthodox approaches to sound and its instrumentation with a broad…