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Redefining Democracy in America Part 2: Episodes in Black & White
Created by Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason

Jan 01, 1991

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With...
Redefining Democracy in America Part 3: Episodes in Black and White
Created by Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason

Jan 01, 1991

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With...
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Created by Shelley Hirsch

Jan 01, 1991

A text by Angela Carter spoken and sung by Hirsch in an environment of intricately woven rhythms evo...
A Beginner's Guide to Attracting Birds
Created by Alvin Curran (1995). Introduced by Jess Speer.

Jan 12, 2021

In this piece commissioned by New American Radio in 1995, Alvin Curran created a work that pays trib...
A Beginner's Guide to Attracting Birds
Created by Alvin Curran

Jan 01, 1995

A tone-poem for radio that draws on a number of never used sounds from the composer's archives, as w...
A Decade in Your Ear Part 1
Created by Wes Nisker

Jan 01, 1976

This two-part documentary is not just another collage of the late sixties and early seventies; it ma...
A Decade in Your Ear Part 2
Created by Wes Nisker

Jan 01, 1976

This two-part documentary is not just another collage of the late sixties and early seventies; it ma...
A Hole in the Head—Brain Amplifications and Herniated Texts
Created by Christof Migone

Jan 01, 1993

A collection of portraits for those with dysfunctional attention spans and disrespect for proper mic...
A Walk Through the City
Created by Hildegard Westercamp

Jan 01, 1981

An environmental composition based on a poem by Canadian poet and playwright Norbert Ruebsaat. Urban...
Advertising Secrets
Created by Don Joyce and Negativland

Jan 01, 1991

A dynamic blend of rhythmic elements and original audio constructs—actual ad jingles, lines and phra...
After Roe
Created by Julie Drizin

Jan 01, 1992

A blend of documentary and fiction, in which everything is true and false, credible and incredible,...
Aka Saga, Part 1: AKAKLAKLAK—Return from Death
Created by Pekka Siren and Agnieszka Waligorska

Jan 01, 1990

A fascinating blend of the mythological past and technological present: the story of the woman Aka a...
Aka Saga, Part 2: Alak
Pekka Siren, Agnieszka Waligorska

Jan 01, 1990

The second part of the "Aka Saga" continues the story begun in AKAKLAKLAK. Following the fate of Kal...
Aka Saga, Part 3: Akamer
Created by Pekka Siren and Agnieszka Waligorska

Jan 01, 1990

In the third part of the "Aka Saga," Aka is the leader of her own clan and Alak a full-grown man. On...
American Dining: A Working Woman's Moment
Created by Jerri Allyn

Jan 01, 1989

Drawing from her own experience as a waitress, Allyn creates song-narratives that offer fascinating...
Angels Have Been Sent To Me
Created by Jerri Allyn with soundscore by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1991

Poignant and humorous stories about Allyn's ninety-year old immigrant grandmother, Maria Alvarez, an...
Aphids and Others
Created by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1990

Written in response to Gregory Whitehead's Male Digger Bees, this short work is a humorously poignan...
Audiographs: Songs from the Tenderloin
Created by Earwax Productions, Barney Jones, Marcos Kounilakis, and Jim McKee

Jan 01, 1987

Condensed and dramatized portraits of people living on the streets of San Francisco. Recorded interv...
Aunt Aida's Hand
Created by Lisa Jones and Alva Rogers

Jan 01, 1989

Stories about two Black women trying to piece together family legends and their cultural history. Ne...
Autodreamographical Tales
Created by Terry Riley

Jan 01, 1996

Autodreamographical Tales is a brand new and excitingly different work from "the father of minimalis...
Battle Mountain
Created by Scott Carrier

Jan 01, 1991

Battle Mountain is the story of an attempted ski trip in Nevada at the time of the Gulf War. That ye...
Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women
Created by Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor

Jan 01, 1993

Based on the powerful one-woman performance Jones toured in 1991-92. The story follows the real-life...
Blabber Mouth
Created by Erik Belgum

Jan 01, 1994

Live electronic music based on the counterintuitive notion that intelligible speech emerges from noi...
Bleeder
Created by Terry Allen

Jan 01, 1990

A fictional audiobiography of an enigmatic Texas gambler, religious fanatic, possible gangster, magi...
Blodder
Created by Erik Belgum

Jan 01, 1994

An experimental music/theater piece for radio that exploits the untapped theatrical and musical pote...
Borderland
Created by Connie Coleman with Alan Powell

Jan 01, 1990

With Alan Powell. An exploration of a psychic aural space just south of our consciousness. That very...
Bounced Around
Created by Erik Belgum

Jan 01, 1995

Tells the story of a head-on collision between an idealistic law student and a veteran policeman. It...
Brass Map
Created by Diana Meckley

Jan 01, 1990

A work for brass, voice, and computer. It explores ideas of perspective and the meaning we attribute...
Building a Universe, Part 1
Created by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1985

Outrageous, and at times downright silly, an experimental new drama that focuses on contemporary tec...
Building a Universe, Part 2: Rifts, Absences and Omissions
Created by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1987

Satiric and experimental new drama that focuses on the new reproductive technologies and the scienti...
Calawalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind
Created by Harri Huhtamaki with Teppo Hauta-aho, Pekka Lappi, Seppo Paakunainen, and Pekka Ruohoranta

Jan 01, 1986

Bear Island, a remote wilderness area of Finland served as the primary recording location for this r...
Cement in My Way
Created by Pura Fe and Soni Moreno-Primeau

Jan 01, 1993

A musical portrait of two composer/performers whose native heritage is the inspiration for their wor...
City in a Bottle
Created by John Rieger

Jan 01, 1985

A radiophonic work that takes its title from the story of Kandor, a city of Superman's home planet,...
City of Water
Created by Jose Iges and Concha Jerez

Jan 01, 1994

A sonic visit to the Alhambra—palace of the Moorish kings in Granada, Spain and one of the most magn...
Cold War Diary
Created by Rinde Eckert

Jan 01, 1990

A thought-travelogue. Somewhere in Europe a woman stands at her hotel window. She looks out over a p...
Conjure
Created by David Moss

Jan 01, 1993

Moss's second audio piece based on a Calvino text. A dizzying stew of music and narrative— quantum p...
Clearing the Square
Created by Cathy Peters

Jan 01, 1996

Clearing the Square is a documentary in memory of the victims of the repression of the democracy mov...
Cricket Voice
Created by Hildegard Westercamp

Jan 01, 1987

A musical exploration of a cricket whose song was recorded in the stillness of a Mexican desert regi...
Death of Ruth Tuck
Created by Scott Carrier

Jan 01, 1986

A fictionalized ethnography which explores how we handle death. Composed of a series of dramatically...
Degenerates in Dreamland
Created by Gregory Whitehead

Jan 01, 1991

"A radio manifesto in memory of the body in pieces." (Whitehead) Commissioned by New American Radio.
Display Wounds
Created by Gregory Whitehead

Jan 01, 1986

A fictionalized monologue that addresses the "woundscape" of the human species in the wake of the hi...
Do You Remember Jogjakarta?
Created by Kaye Mortley

Jan 01, 1992

"The work began as fragmentary notes, impressions, sensations, jotted down during a trip to Indonesi...
Dracula's Wives
Created by Helen Thorington, with performances by Pamela Z, Agnieszka Waligorska, and Deidre Murray

Jan 01, 1992

An otherworldly geography peopled by the disembodied voices of the undead; a radio film, at times op...
Dream Sequence, Part 1 & 2
Created by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1979

One of the first compositions for radio to make use of electronic processing, The Dream Sequence unf...
Dreaming of Fat Men
Created by Lorelai Harris

Jan 01, 1993

A delightful and insightful dinner conversation among five women of size. Why do they love to eat? D...
Drifters
Created by Lou Mallozzi

Jan 01, 1998

Drifters is an attempt to find ways for both language and place to drift: different representations...
Dug-Out
Created by Maurice Kenny with original score by Helen Thorington

Jan 01, 1990

In 1984 when two dug-out canoes were unearthed on a private estate in Malone, New York, it was a ver...
Dug-Out
Created by Terry Allen

Jan 01, 1993

The fictionalized history of two people: a man born in the late 1800s who runs away from home to pla...
Earth and the Great Weather
Created by John Luther Adams

Jan 01, 1990

A work about the sonic geography of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska, and...
Ethnic Cleansing
Created by Lisa Jones

Jan 01, 1993

A surreal satire that begins as a fireside chat but quickly leaps out of the frame to become real. I...