The Great Blue Heron (ID#500)
Rosemary Vaughn had a little bit of a Wild Kingdom situation in her backyard.
I Love the Texas Capitol
Cathie Gail isn't a native Texan, but that doesn't stop her from loving the Capitol.
Noisy Chocolate
Tom Pedersen's in the chocolate business. His product is tasty, but also pretty noisy to make.
Soundscape: Foundry: More from Bill: He's unearthed a secret about the them
Bill Gilstrap presents the sounds of Bastrop's Deep in The Heart Art Foundry.
Soundscape: Foundry
Bill Gilstrap presents the sounds of Bastrop's Deep in The Heart Art Foundry.
Soundscape: Movie Projector
The sound of the Frankenstein-style movie projector at the Dobie Theater.
Soundscape: Preschool
Andrew Urbanus presents the sound of a typical day at Habibi's Hutch preschool
Soundscape: Mahjong
Lisa Quay works at the Dell Jewish Community Center, where she loves to hear the ladies playing mahjong.
First encounter with the 7-11
Veena Gondhalekar and her roommate, both new to America at the time, discovered 7-11 in an interesting way.
Soundscape: Printmaking
Theresa Bond presents the myriad sounds involved in making art prints by hand.
Soundscape: 83-year-old cash register
Larry Gorman loves the sounds of the antique cash register at his favorite feed store.
Soundscape: Keyboard factory
An Austin company called Open Labs designs and builds keyboards. It makes for a noisy office enviroment.
Soundscape: Tango
Heidi Melz presents the sounds of tango.
The Beaver Skull
It sounds like a Christmas fable co-written by O Henry and Charles Addam, but it's really a true story that happened to Austinite Jeanette Scott.
Soundscape: Windchimes
Rasika Harshey loves her unique windchimes.
Baby Banjo
Rich LeGrand and his wife, Christina Chan, gave their baby an unusual name.
Soundscape: Martial Arts in the Morning
The varied sounds of an early morning martial arts class.
Soundscape: Austin Aircoolers
Joyce Snodgrass is one of the many aircooled vehicle enthusiasts who gather monthy on South Congress Avenue.
Soundscape: Dogs at the Front Door
Sherri Whitmarsh is greeted at the door every evening by her four small dogs.
Soundscape: Doorbell
Talbot's house doesn't have a typical, boring doorbell. It's a little something extra.
Soundscape: Chickens at Boggy Creek Farm
Marc Airhart visits Boggy Creek Farm for the produce and the chickens.
Soundscape: Barton Springs
Colin Clark presents the sounds of Barton Springs.
Soundscape: Gong
Rich Goldstein (aka Raghurai) of Yoga Yoga loves the sound of the gong.
Soundscape: Fiddle practice
Gail Woods hears her son Clif practicing Irish fiddle most days.
Soundscape: The Seas rehearse
Austin band The Seas rehearses in an Eastside storage unit on a typical Wednesday night.
Soundscape: Reel mower
Mark Wells uses an old-fashioned, human-powered reel mower to cut his grass.
Soundscape: Animatronic LBJ
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum features, among other things, a life-size, talking, animatronic replica of the late president.
Soundscape: Ice Skating in Texas
Angie Schneider, a transplanted Canadian, presents to us the sounds of indoor, summer-time ice skating.
Soundscape: Bats
Sound artist Alex Keller recorded the bats under Shoal Creek Bridge.
Soundscape: Barton Creek
Native Austinite Betsy Pilkington retired (from KUT!) two years ago, and now she has time to rediscover Barton Creek.