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Angels Have Been Sent To Me

With soundscore by Helen Thorington. 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 an...

Aphids and Others

Written in response to Gregory Whitehead's Male Digger Bees, this short work is a humorously poignant appeal for diversity and choice in our lives. It features a laughing aphid, three bumping snails,...

Building a Universe, Part 1

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.

Building a Universe, Part 2: Rifts, Absences and Omissions

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...

Dracula's Wives

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...

Dream Sequence, Part 1 & 2

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...

Dug-Out

With original sound score by Helen Thorington. 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 Ak...

In the Devils Footsteps, Parts 1 & 2

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...

Loco-Motive

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...

North Country

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...

North Country

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...

One to Win

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...

Parrot Talk

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...

Pickling

With sound design by Helen Thorington. 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...

Straight Ahead

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...

Terra dell'Imaginazione (Land of the Imagination)

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...

The American Buffalo

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

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