To the Best of Our Knowledge 

PROMO       3/2/2008          "Touching the Sound"
*Standing on 8 feet of ice in Antarctica you can actually feel the call
of the Weddell seal below through your boots. The Carthusian monks say
you can feel the vow of silence in your soul.  In this hour of To the
Best Of Our Knowledge, touching the sound of a monk's silence and a
seal's call. And, an exploration of sound with famed percussionist
Evelyn Glennie, who happens to be deaf. 

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Touching the Sound"

0:00 - 14:56        SEGMENT 1: 14:57)
            Dame Evelyn Glennie is an award winning solo
            percussionist and composer who performs with the great
            orchestras and popular artists. She's also deaf. She
            talks with Steve Paulson about touching sound.  
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

14:57 - 15:26  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

15:27 - 36:16       SEGMENT 2: (20:50)
            In 1776 there were no radios or telephones or honking
            cars, but there were other sounds. The church bell, the
            town crier, and women beating their laundry all had
            distinct sounds. Richard Rath, author of "How Early
            American Sounded," tells Jim Fleming how every sound in
            Early America had a living and willful source. Also
            filmmaker Philip Groning talks with Anne Strainchamps
            about the six months of silence he filmed with the
            Carthusian monks of the Grand Chartreuse in the French
            Alps. His film is called "The Great Silence." 
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

36:17 - 36:46       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

36:47 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (16:13)
            Doug Quin is a sound artist and professor of audio at
            Syracuse University. He's trying to help us tune certain
            sounds in, sounds we don't consider worth hearing -- from
            the sound of a spider sucking blood from an insect to the
            sound of a tree falling in a forest. He takes Anne
            Strainchamps on a round-the-world listening expedition. 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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