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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

1995, 27:30 min.

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

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

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

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

Christof Migone

A collection of portraits for those with dysfunctional attention spans and disrespect for proper mic...

A Walk Through the City

Hildegard Westercamp

An environmental composition based on a poem by Canadian poet and playwright Norbert Ruebsaat. Urban...

Advertising Secrets

Don Joyce, Negativland

A dynamic blend of rhythmic elements and original audio constructs—actual ad jingles, lines and phra...

After Roe

A blend of documentary and fiction, in which everything is true and false, credible and incredible,...

Aka Saga, Part 1: AKAKLAKLAK—Return from Death

Pekka Siren, Agnieszka Waligorska

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

The second part of the "Aka Saga" continues the story begun in AKAKLAKLAK. Following the fate of Kal...

Aka Saga, Part 3: Akamer

Pekka Siren, Agnieszka Waligorska

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

Drawing from her own experience as a waitress, Allyn creates song-narratives that offer fascinating...

Angels Have Been Sent To Me

With soundscore by Helen Thorington. Poignant and humorous stories about Allyn's ninety-year old imm...

Aphids and Others

Helen Thorington

Written in response to Gregory Whitehead's Male Digger Bees, this short work is a humorously poignan...

Audiographs: Songs from the Tenderloin

Earwax Productions, Barney Jones, Marcos Kounilakis, Jim McKee

Condensed and dramatized portraits of people living on the streets of San Francisco. Recorded interv...

Aunt Aida's Hand

Lisa Jones, Alva Rogers

Stories about two Black women trying to piece together family legends and their cultural history. Ne...

Autodreamographical Tales

Autodreamographical Tales is a brand new and excitingly different work from "the father of minimalis...

Battle Mountain

Battle Mountain is the story of an attempted ski trip in Nevada at the time of the Gulf War. That...

Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women

Rhodessa Jones, Idris Ackamoor

Based on the powerful one-woman performance Jones toured in 1991-92. The story follows the real-life...

Blabber Mouth

Live electronic music based on the counterintuitive notion that intelligible speech emerges from noi...

Bleeder

A fictional audio-biography of an enigmatic Texas gambler, religious fanatic, possible gangster, mag...

Blodder

An experimental music/theater piece for radio that exploits the untapped theatrical and musical pote...

Borderland

Connie Coleman, Alan Powell

An exploration of a psychic aural space just south of our consciousness. That very special location...

Bounced Around

Bounced Around tells the story of a head-on collision between an idealistic law student and a vete...

Brass Map

A work for brass, voice, and computer. It explores ideas of perspective and the meaning we attribute...

Building a Universe, Part 1

Helen Thorington

Outrageous, and at times downright silly, an experimental new drama that focuses on contemporary tec...

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

Helen Thorington

Satiric and experimental new drama that focuses on the new reproductive technologies and the scienti...

Calawalayana—Changes in the Ecology of the Mind

Harri Huhtamaki

With Teppo Hauta-aho, Pekka Lappi, Seppo Paakunainen, and Pekka Ruohoranta. Bear Island, a remote wi...

Cement in My Way

Pura Fe, Soni Moreno-Primeau

A musical portrait of two composer/performers whose native heritage is the inspiration for their wor...

City in a Bottle

A radiophonic work that takes its title from the story of Kandor, a city of Superman's home planet,...

City of Water

Jose Iges, Concha Jerez

A sonic visit to the Alhambra—palace of the Moorish kings in Granada, Spain and one of the most magn...

Clearing the Square

Clearing the Square is a documentary in memory of the victims of the repression of the democracy mov...

Cold War Diary

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

Conjure

Moss's second audio piece based on a Calvino text. A dizzying stew of music and narrative— quantum p...

Cricket Voice

Hildegard Westercamp

A musical exploration of a cricket whose song was recorded in the stillness of a Mexican desert regi...

Death of Ruth Tuck

A fictionalized ethnography which explores how we handle death. Composed of a series of dramatically...

Degenerates in Dreamland

Gregory Whitehead

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

Display Wounds

Gregory Whitehead

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "In 1985, while still working on Dead Letters, I became fascinated by the...

Do You Remember Jogjakarta?

"The work began as fragmentary notes, impressions, sensations, jotted down during a trip to Indonesi...

Dracula's Wives

Helen Thorington

An otherworldly geography peopled by the disembodied voices of the undead; a radio film, at times op...

Dream Sequence, Part 1 & 2

Helen Thorington

One of the first compositions for radio to make use of electronic processing, The Dream Sequence unf...

Dreaming of Fat Men

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

Drifters

Drifters is an attempt to find ways for both language and place to drift: different representations...

Dug-Out

The fictionalized history of two people: a man born in the late 1800s who runs away from home to pla...

Dug-Out

Maurice Kenny, Helen Thorington

With original sound score by Helen Thorington. In 1984 when two dug-out canoes were unearthed on a p...

Earth and the Great Weather

John Luther Adams

A work about the sonic geography of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska, and...

Ethnic Cleansing

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

Europoly Part 1

Helmut Kopetsky, Michael Maria Kammertons

Europoly Part 1 by German documentarian Helmut Kopetzky with composer Michael Maria Kammertons is a...

Europoly Part 2

Helmut Kopetsky, Michael Maria Kammertons

Europoly Part 2 by German documentarian Helmut Kopetzky with composer Michael Maria Kammertons is a...

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