Helen Thorington contributes a feature article on the evolving context for sound and radio practice, exploring networked media, participatory platforms and the sonification of every-day objects. An introducing to a series of Radio Art including recent works by Christof Migone and Sarah Washington. In Tate: Intermedia Art What is Radio…
Voices in the Dark (1991) A radio work for outer and inner space, in four sections. The cosmos is an audio archive of information broadcast to the stars, a repository of human (and perhaps other) histories in which time melts and language dissolves into signals. All those “voices” traversing the…
NEW AMERICAN RADIO The works created by the artists who participated in New Radio and Performing Arts’ (NRPA) New American Radio series during the 1980s and 90s characterize a uniquely American sensibility, culture and landscape, and their diverse voices and visions represent a cross-section of our individual and collective histories…
Parrot Talk is a work about repetition and entropy, told with recordings from Parrot Jungle, Miami, Florida, a Sousa march, carnival music, feedback, static and other anathema of the broadcast world. In Thorington’s childhood, children sang the Sousa march with the following words: “Be kind to your web-footed friends, for…