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7: The Music Genome Project Hasn’t Failed Yet

Sound is energy. It’s intimate and startling and immediate. Each episode of Sound Show explores one topic in sound, like music, film, silence, or communication. Every week we talk to the people who make and hear the strangest, most interesting sounds in that topic.