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This episode originally aired in February of 2021. 

Music

• Unsayable by Brambles.
• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
• A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies
• Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.
• Reading a Wave by Arp
• April by Kanazu Tomoyuki
• Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

• The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives.