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Q&A with Invisibilia's 'The Last Sound'

Sitting still to listen has now become a reality as we navigate this pandemic and lockdown in place. The latest episode of Invisibilia explores sound and what we can learn if we sit still to listen.
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Invisibilia explores how unseeable forces can control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Their latest episode, "The Last Sound" examines the power of sound and what we can learn about ourselves and the world if we sit still to listen. They spoke with Bernie Krause, who was a successful musician who heard a sound unlike anything he'd ever encountered and at that very moment it completely overtook his life. He quit the music business to pursue it and has spent the last 50 years following it all over the earth.

For many sitting still to has now become a reality as we navigate this pandemic and lockdown in place. We chatted with , Producer, Corespondent/Host of Invisibilia to explore what it was like to produce "."

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