Wave Farm | Helen Thorington

North Country: Feb 22, 2021

North County (1995) sounds like a radio play version of Fargo made by David Lynch and the author of a text-based game. Playing on themes of memory, time, hypertextuality, and principles of storytellin...

North Country: Jan 01, 1995

The second in a series of hypertext-inspired stories for radio: a narrative that uses short blocks or fragments of texts to shape a web of linked ideas that reflect the way the mind works. In North Co...

In the Devils Footsteps, Parts 1 & 2: Jan 01, 1993

Created especially for Halloween, these two complimentary programs celebrate and explore the vampire tradition, which is as ageless and enduring as its own subject, and the shadowy world of the bat, w...

Dracula's Wives: Jan 01, 1992

An otherworldly geography peopled by the disembodied voices of the undead; a radio film, at times operatic in its approach, about women vampires, their bond with the vampire of all vampires, and their...

Angels Have Been Sent To Me: Jan 01, 1991

Poignant and humorous stories about Allyn's ninety-year old immigrant grandmother, Maria Alvarez, and her cronies in a critical care home. Interwoven with music and hospital sounds: wheelchairs, medic...

Loco-Motive: Jan 01, 1991

A monologue set to a haunting, cinematic sound score by Helen Thorington in which a woman reflects on the truth of evolution. With typical Parks word play and humor, the work is surreal, sad, and some...

Dug-Out: Jan 01, 1990

In 1984 when two dug-out canoes were unearthed on a private estate in Malone, New York, it was a very special occasion for the Mohawk Indian Nation at Akwesasne. These two artifacts preserved for 400-...

Pickling: Jan 01, 1990

A story about Miss Miss who has preserved all her loved objects in jars. Bits of mother, tokens of a lover, all are preserved by pickling. Along with parts of an old refrigerator and other things, als...

Terra dell'Imaginazione (Land of the Imagination): Jan 01, 1990

A sound composition in which the artist evokes a landscape and tells a story without a text. Originally commissioned as an audio installation for a riverside cave in Mattera, Italy, Terra reflects the...

One to Win: Jan 01, 1989

A short, humorous, audio art work that recreates a single event in a horse-racing day. Presented from many perspectives, including that of the horse, One to Win carries the listener quickly from one l...

Straight Ahead: Jan 01, 1989

Originally created for the award-winning experimental film Optic Nerve by Barbara Hammer, a work about the filmmaker's grandmother. Thorington's sound score takes its title from the question, "Straigh...

Building a Universe, Part 2: Rifts, Absences and Omissions: Jan 01, 1987

Satiric and experimental new drama that focuses on the new reproductive technologies and the scientists responsible for their development. "I will get a Nobel, I will..." While shaped into dramatic sc...

Parrot Talk: Jan 01, 1986

Controlled insanity in sound. A work about repetition and entropy. Told with live recordings from Parrot Jungle, Miami, feedback, carnival music, static and other anathema of the broadcast world. Winn...

Building a Universe, Part 1: Jan 01, 1985

Outrageous, and at times downright silly, an experimental new drama that focuses on contemporary technologies, such as cloning, cross-breeding, and the ability to exchange body parts.

The American Buffalo: Jan 01, 1980

Why the American buffalo is not a true buffalo but a bison. And what we may learn from this ancient creature.

Dream Sequence, Part 1 & 2: Jan 01, 1979

One of the first compositions for radio to make use of electronic processing, The Dream Sequence unfolds associationally, its lyrical text reflecting humorously on the author's rural experience and he...

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