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Hear in the City
by Sara Harris
MyEveryDayRadio is a daily time-mapping exercise asking you to stop and listen, at least once every day. Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape is a sound-mapping endeavor launched in 2010 on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles by Sara Harris.
Episodes
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Sounds_of_the Mojave_Mix
This is a prototype for a 12-unit audio-based curriculum with a coloring book field guide about the ecology and flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Copyright pending. (hearinthecity.org)
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Kaddish
We offer you this original submission to the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race 2020 "Time Warp", with gratitude, for the opportunity! After nearly three months of bickering while quarantining together, this mother-daughter team finds peace while making radio together about a person whom they both loved…
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Human excrement, overgrown undergrowth, general disregard for the landscape in the Shadow of Dodgers Stadium.
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Installment #4: What if we all took a moment out of each day to think about and talk about and perhaps even thank- or decide to delete- the long list of contacts in our cellphone?
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MyEveryDayRadio3.WAV
With the intention of creating a masterfully-crafted, self-contained, internally edited and smooth musing, this entry of MyEveryDayRadio documents nothing more than two dogs barking behind a fence and a homeless man searching for a plastic bag in the weeds on a hillside.
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MyEveryDayRadio2.WAV
Random rantings during a windy April day in L.A.
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MyEveryDayRadio1.WAV
Welcome to day one of an experiment in daily decompression from wherever my mind takes me.
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The Apocalypse Show
December 21st, 2012- the winter solstice- was thought by many to portend the end of the world, and by others as the moment of spiritual and cosmological transformation as it represented the end and new beginning of the Long Count Aztec and Maya calendars. On this New Years Day, 2013 episode, Hear...
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MothersDay2013
Listen to our Mother's Day episode and share it with your mothers.
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Tree People and the Rain
This episode, we take a trip to one of the largest on-site rain/storm water catchment systems in Los Angeles. On an unusually rainy May day, in a year, when rain has been scarce, Andy Lipkis and Jim Hardie of Tree People walk us through the basics of the past, present, and future of the...
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Trees and Bikes are the Answer
This week's radio outside of the studio: we celebrate Earth Day with a crew of people who think every day is Earth Day--we visit Northeast Trees on planting mission in the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Projects and ride a bike to power a dj party with Movable Parts at Ciclavia.
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Mr. Ra / Mystery
This episode, we visit with Afro-futurist filmmaker Cauleen Smith as she brings her slide-show performance drawn from archives of and admiration for Sun-Ra to Los Angeles. It's national poetry month, and we have some choice recordings of Mr. Ra/Mystery, the cosmic polymath, composer, and poet.
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Keeping the water
This week, we take a walk with the "old man of water", Waterkeeper's Conner Everts to find concrete solutions to problem of a concrete city that pours most of its water right back into the ocean instead of saving it for a non-rainy day.
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Loitering in public space
On this episode, we spend the show loitering at City Hall with artist Chris Cuellar who is part of a gallery show at Los Angeles City College called "Come in; We're Open" --a collection of conversations about social practice and a project of Performing Public Space. Also on the show: the…
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of Marathons and Assholes
This episode: "When you are at kilometer 30...that's when the pain and the absurdity of the marathon come into focus." "Ever since starting to work on this guide, whenever I see a plain, industrial building, I just have to wonder: who's being screwed behind those frosted, black windows?"
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Love and Water
This week's Hear in the City wraps up our series on natural elements in the the urban space with "Water" by Radiosonideros collective featuring the poetry of Lewis McAdams, co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. We also offer you a guide to a proposed landmark urban plan on the L.A.…
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Earth: future in the balance for an urban park
Next in our series of audio art honoring natural elements in the urban space: Earth. We spend most of the program exploring the fundamental issues that arise when a piece of land is set aside for public park use at a time when disinvestment in open and un-exploited spaces has become the norm in…
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About air
This week, we visit Mexico City--once the dirtiest metropolitan area in the Americas-- now the recipient of a prize for clean air and sustainable transport. Plus, audio poetry by Clare Fox and responses from our Pit Bull show.
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pitbulls and people who love them
The number one dog breed euthanized in shelters in cities in the U.S. is the Pit Bull Terrier. On this episode, we travel to two spaces in the City to visit extraordinary people who are committed to difficult dogs and helping society to deal with them. Featuring Larry Hill of Puppy Imprinters and...
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Los Angeles in Las Vegas
The 2012 U.S. presidential election had been decided. California saw record turn-out. Some Angelinos went beyond the call of voter duty and hit the pavement in Las Vegas to make sure to get out the vote in our neighboring swing-state. Listen to the show to hear how it went.
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Listen on election day
Hear in the City went to Vegas this weekend to map the city with volunteers for Obama and Romney who traveled all the way from Los Angeles to get out the vote in this swing state where the President won in 2008 by a 537 vote margin. Listen tomorrow on KPFK, 90.7FM at 2:30 PDT.
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yes, you can vote from jail here
With one week left until the U.S. presidential election, Sara visits Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles where a group of faith-based volunteers teams up with the county sheriff's department to register eligible voters in jails. It's the first effort of its kind, and while most former…
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Lola Alvarez Bravo and the L.A. underground
On this episode of Hear in the City, we enter a collection drawn from old boxes recently found in a house sold after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. The boxes belonged to the hard-working and versatile photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo. Inside, was a treasure of documents and unedited photos…
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A house of gold
On this episode, we visit a humble house on a winding road in the hills of Los Angeles where a group of artists turn one family's mortgage default and foreclosure story into a lens for looking at a larger problem. With "A Notorious Possession", artist Olga Koumoundouros squats the abandoned house...
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Way down in the mine
We are cruising down a European highway through the wooded hills of Belgium. We are 30 kilometers from the border with the southern tip of Holland. We are on a detour to an abandoned coal-mine-turned-into-art-space-commentary on the state of capitalism.
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Sports and Music Lift us Higher
Where can kids who've been pushed to the margins of the learning experience in life find a place to reach their potential? This week's Hear in the City takes you to two spaces where dignity, integrity, and discipline guide the path to learning success for high-schoolers on two ends of Los…
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unique little endeavors
This episode, Hear in the City runs into the only 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, animal rescue team of its kind...and, we sit in on a tiny puppet show of epic poetic proportions. SMART in Los Angeles and Automata in Chinatown.
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one more coyote show
On this episode, we meet a coyo-dog, Sara chases a coyote up into the hills in the broad daylight, and we revisit the animal's predicament in the urban space.
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Golpe de Estado, Estilo Mexicano
While most media are regurgitating Calderón and the PRI's assertions that Mexico has a president-elect, today on Hear in the City, Sara interviews investigative journalist and Enfoque Latino contributor Dolores Dorantes about what she calls "A Coup d' Etat, Mexican Style." We do a simultaneous...
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Land Art and Radio Ambulante
On this episode of Hear in the City we attend the unveiling of a 340 ton rock that crossed 22 cities and 4 counties from a quarry in Hurupah Valley, Riverside, California to land in Los Angeles as the latest object to be added to the list of land art in the world...and we preview Radio Ambulante…
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Birds, fish, and free lunch
We start this episode of Hear in the City at Los Angeles' historic Echo Park Lake, the site of a $65 million water quality project that has temporarily displaced dozens of birds and turned the ponds of lotus flower into a giant construction site. From there, we follow the ducks and geese to their...
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Abandoned Pets
On this episode of Hear in the City we visit with two extraordinary people who dedicate their lives to caring for pets who would otherwise fall through the cracks of the urban economic crisis. One, a veterinarian and self-proclaimed "bleeding heart", is owed $40,000 by the City of Los Angeles...
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In honor of mothers
On today’s Hear in the City, in honor of Mothers’ Day, we offer you two stories of motherhood during difficult times... The first is an audio postcard from a group of teen moms who are finishing their high school degrees at a small school in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. The second story is…
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the May Day show
It's our May Day show. Studs Terkel, Lenin's Head by the Gao Brothers, Pete Seeger, The East is Red, and the connections between the immigrant rights movement and the 99%. From Los Angeles as the marches get underway. (photo credit, LA Times).
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Shades of Blue ( #TCShortDocs)
Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness. Jessica is a resident in the organization's permanent supportive housing and Martha is a member in...
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The Magic Lantern and Surrealist Women Poets
This week's Hear in the City offers you a sonic journey into translations between languages, media, and landscapes as we map an eclectic sampling of Mexican artists whose work is currently featured around Los Angeles.
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Library Love
Anne Marie Ruff who recently published her first novel, Through These Veins, explores the question “if we had a cure for AIDS, would it ever make it to market?:” She spent a lot of time at the Los Angeles Central Library while writing and offers us this audio post-card to the Central Library. All...
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On this week's episode: Walmart makes inroads to Los Angeles via Chinatown and the Los Angeles Central Library is a home away from home, with author Anne Marie Ruff.
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Deported
Before this week's show, Hear in the City host Sara Harris will be presenting her work at the Center for Non-profit Management and talking about the ins-and-outs of independent radio/audio production. One of Sara's all-time-favorite stories she's worked on is this collaboration with Street Poet...
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Haitian poetry
This is an excerpt from an audiopostcard Hear in the City host Sara Harris produced with Haitian students at Toussaint L'ouverture High School in Del Rey Beach, Florida after President Jean Bertrand Aristide was pushed out of power. An English teacher at the High School invited Sara to her poetry...
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The Bell Tolls
"Our vibrations reach Japan today." Spoken by Mineo Hoshi of the South Coast Interfaith Council in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo on the moment of ringing the bell at Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 2:46PM, PDT, in honor of what was lost in the Tsunami one year ago.
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Special Advocates for Kids in the Court System
On this week's episode, we ring the big bell at the Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles at 2:46pm in recognition and solidarity with the people of Japan who were hit by the earthquake and Tsunami last year. We also visit an unusual architectural landscape of courtrooms and...
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The Bully Show
At the beginning of the year, Hear in the City was selected by the national youth radio network --Generation PRX-- to participate in a one-hour radio special about bullying. This episode of Hear in the City features two wonderfully talented students at Roosevelt High School, Oscar Rodriguez and...
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We spend this week's show at a one-time musical happening that takes space in a motel on Colorado Boulevard where the rooms are converted into experimental music stages and installation spaces for an afternoon. Arts editor Jesse Lerner condenses a 6 hour sound fest by the Society for the…
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On this episode, we take an eclectic tour of Los Angeles-based music. First, we go to a private collection that is open to the public...and houses the king of keyboards. After that, we’ll check in with Los Angeles Film forum about upcoming screenings of works that served as visual sisters to the...
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It’s our first show of the new year! We’ll go to the Rose Parade to hear the first Occupy Los Angeles march of the year...and we’ll go up above Hollywood Boulevard at the Barnsdall Art Park for "Civic Virtue", an exhibition that deals with the ambivalent relationship between city government and…
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On this week's episode, we hang out with founders and fans of independent film gem, the Echo Park Film Center on the occasion of their 10th anniversary, and we review some lesser known work of a yellow press stalwart from 1940’s New York and L.A. Plus, a coda from the Baldwin Hills.
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“It’s really hard for someone to get their head around what the Inglewood Oil Field is.” On this week’s Hear in the City we offer you part two in our series about oil extraction in the Baldwin Hills, and we help L.A. local-global micro cinema, the Echo Park Film Center, celebrate it’s 10th...
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McNeill Ferrazi INTRO
Here's a little taste of what we'll be delving into next week on Hear in the City for part 2 of our Air Check series from Baldwin Hills. Listen on Tuesday, December 13th at 3:30pm in Los Angeles on 90.7fm or at www.kpfk.org to hear the whole story about the oil fields in the middle of the city…
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Hear in the City will spend then next few shows in the Baldwin Hills at the Inglewood Oilfield. This place is perched on the summit overlooking the past and the future. On one side, the oil discoveries that drew wealth and intrigue and prospectors to L.A. at the turn of the last century and on…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
MyEveryDayRadio is a daily time-mapping exercise asking you to stop and listen, at least once every day. Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape is a sound-mapping endeavor launched in 2010 on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles by Sara Harris.
HOSTED BY
Sara Harris
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MyEveryDayRadio is a daily time-mapping exercise asking you to stop and listen, at least once every day. Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape is a sound-mapping endeavor launched in 2010 on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles by Sara Harris.
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Hear in the City is created and hosted by Sara Harris.
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