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Helen Thorington: Radio, Art, Life: New Contexts   May 2008

Helen Thorington: Radio, Art, Life: New Contexts May 2008

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…

Jacki Apple: Voices in the Dark

Jacki Apple: Voices in the Dark

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…

Jacki Apple. New American Radio and Radio Art

Jacki Apple. New American Radio and Radio Art

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…

Helen Thorington. Parrot Talk

Helen Thorington. Parrot Talk

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…

Orson Welles. The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the…