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James McDovett recommends a work by Dmitry Shostakovich to help ease suffering.

Jackie Murray says her sound is no sound, the defining silence.

An anonymous man calls to say he is sorry he never visited the towers and describes their beauty.

Sister Eileen Fickner, a Salesian nun who lives in New York, remembers the awesome silence on the streets after 9/11.

Maria Solario and her sister, who both live in downtown Manhattan, tried to reach each other on 9/11. They saved their phone messages.

New York City radio station 1010 WINS news reports from March 11, 2002--the six-month anniversary of 9/11--include live coverage of the dedication of the Tribute in Light memorial and short interviews with victims families.

Sy Denby talks about the fight he and other small businessmen from Radio Row waged with the Port Authority in opposition to the WTC.

Washington State resident Gabriel Keenan left his small hometown to attend college in NYC. When he needed to escape the city noise, he would go to the top of the WTC.

The agent for the Latin band Son Boricua, talks about taking pride in the towers. The group played at the WTC; their song Boricua Blues was written for the WTC before 9/11.

An exerpt from the Sonic Memorial Special produced by the Kitchen Sisters and narrated by Paul Auster, a montage of audio relating to the early days of the WTC. Minoru Yamasaki was interviewed in 1960. Guy Tozzoli then recalls his interactions with…

Sonny Sonnenstein was in New York for business on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th. He remembers getting out of the building and watching the first tower fall. He would like to submit a…

Sonya Sklaroff was an artist in residence in the 1999 World Views program at the WTC. She describes the "fingernail paintings" she did there and the Santa Fe residency she did post-911.

Bob Windbiel talks about his musician friend, Ray Ack, who played in the plaza during a sound check in 1997. Ray talked about hearing the sound bounce back and forth, from building to building, straight up to heaven.

Stephen Vitiello, one of the artists in residence in the World Views Program at the WTC, collected the ambient sounds of the building. This one was recorded from the 91st floor of 1 WTC.

The son of a friend of Michael Spear's began working in the WTC two weeks before 9/11. He remembers the sounds of loved ones mourning this boy.

Sound designer Logan Susnick published a CD of sounds recorded at the WTC concourse in 2000.

Gretchen visited the Observation Deck in Janruary 2001. She recorded sound from ducts from under the WTC and used it in her music.

In 1982, radio producer Lou Giansante recorded a number of interviews with people at the World Trade Center, as well as some of the sounds of the buildings. Here, he speaks with a South African woman and an English woman.

At the Spanish-language talk radio station WAKC in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the hosts, Francisco Trevino and Sebastian Lantos, broadcast live as the second tower falls on 9/11.

At the Spanish-language talk radio station WAKC in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the hosts, Francisco Trevino and Sebastian Lantos discuss reports of a fourth hijacked plane during their live broadcast on 9/11.