Rekha Murthy
Cambridge, MA, USA
rmurthy@alum.mit.edu


Listening & Reading Room


National Public Radio Reports

The Return of Breakdancing
Taking the GRE



National Public Radio Productions (selections)


News & Features

Piece about "Found" magazine

Segment about the fall of Enron (scroll to page middle)

Piece tracing the INS paper trail of Mohammed Atta's visa applications

Piece about water-efficient appliances

Documentary about the changing nature of privacy in American society

Documentary about the changing Pittsburgh International Airport (co-produced with Art Silverman)

Documentary about a working poor family in San Diego (co-produced with Art Silverman)

Commentary by Nancy Coons about her local French farmers' market


Technology

One-hour conversation about the geospatial Web

Interview with "Black & White" video game creator Peter Molyneux

Review of video game "Grand Theft Auto III"

Review of video game "Super Mario Sunshine"

Interview with Preston Gralla about e-books. Update on e-books

Entire segment about people's relationships with robot dogs (scroll to page middle)


Music & Art

Interview with Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice

Interview with sound artist Stephen Vitiello about sounds of the Amazon forest (co-produced with Art Silverman)

Piece about Brussels' commemoration of singer Jacques Brel

Review of "The Best of Bollywood" CD

Interview with country musician Vince Gill

Review of Bobby Bare Jr.'s "Young Criminals' Starvation League"

Review of The Be Good Tanyas album, "Chinatown"

Interview with Nitin Sawhney about his album, "Prophesy"

Documentary about the Smithsonian Folklife Festival: "The Silk Road"

Interview with Leif Inge, who stretched Beethoven's 9th Symphony to 24 hours

Interview with singer-songwriter Mason Jennings

Interview with Gian Carlo Menotti, composer of the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors"

Interview with Elliott Erwitt about his book, "The Handbook"

Interview with playwright Tony Kushner about his play, "Homebody/Kabul"

Interview with singer-songwriter Stacey Earle about performing right after the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy

Interview with Emmanuel Madan and Thomas McIntosh about their large-scale sonic project, the Silophone

Interview with Bernd Klosterfelde, who created a CD to remind him of his ex-wife's presence in the house


...and much, much more

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Publications

"Story space: A theoretical grounding for the new urban annotation," First Monday

"Cut and Paste," Brown Alumni Magazine

"Shine, Seduce, and Amuse," Cultureflux

"Prêt à Manger," Cultureflux

"Flight of Fancy," Cultureflux

"The Imperfect Beauty of Bossa," Cultureflux

"Hip Hop Finds a Home at Selam," Cultureflux


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