the memory palace

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Music

Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains

Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet

Plantasia by Mort Gerson

Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble

Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know

Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF

Notes
If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service. 

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Music

Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel

Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague

Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis

Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins

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Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
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Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election. 

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Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. 
This episode was originally produced in July of 2015. 
Music
 
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own. 
* The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros.
* Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World.
* The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup 
* Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV

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This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado. 
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Music
The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans

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