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…
a collaboration with Jo-Anne Green 9.11.01 Scapes was composed to accompany a series of collaged images created by Jo-Anne Green the day New York’s World Trade Center was attacked. Green’s palette consisted of NASA images of earth and photographs of diatoms and ground Zero. Each Scape consists of multiple layers. …