"Earth and the Great Weather" (1990) by John Luther Adams: Jun 12, 2026: 4pm - 4:30 pm

A work about the sonic geography of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska, and about the voices of the elements. From the texture of wind, rain and melting ice, flowing water, ani...

"Death of Ruth Tuck" (1986) by Scott Carrier: Apr 17, 2026: 5:30 pm - 6pm

A fictionalized ethnography which explores how we handle death. Composed of a series of dramatically produced interviews which people involved in a specific death: the pathologist, the divorced husban...

"The Opponent's Queen: Detail" (1990) by Sheila Davies Sumner: Apr 10, 2026: 4:30 pm - 5pm

A strategy of moves between two players who are interested in preserving passion through competition. Speculations, emotions, and philosophies are developed through meetings and endings as the opponen...

"Advertising Secrets" (1991) by Don Joyce and Negativland: Apr 03, 2026: 4:30 pm - 5pm

A dynamic blend of rhythmic elements and original audio constructs—actual ad jingles, lines and phrases—commentary by and about advertisers—books on tape materials about how commercials are conceived...

"Aka Saga"— "Part 1: AKAKLAKLAK—Return from Death" (1990): Apr 02, 2026: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Aka Saga, Part 1: AKAKLAKLAK—Return from Death" (1990) by Pekka Siren and Agnieszka Waligorska A fascinating blend of the mythological past and technological present: the story of the woman Aka and...

"The Pleasure of Ruins" (1989) by Gregory Whitehead: Mar 31, 2026: 3:45 pm - 4pm

"The Pleasure of Ruins" (1989) by Gregory Whitehead begins with a haunting new age style incantation of obliterated civilizations—a slow-paced voicing of ruins. Then, with closely-timed razor interrup...

"Heat" (1989) by Susan Stone: Mar 29, 2026: 3:30 pm - 4pm

Audio portrait of life in tropical latitudes. Testimonies about the impact of "the greenhouse effect" on coastal city life are interwoven with the sounds of life inside a seaside residential hotel. T...

"Voices in the Dark" (1991) by Jacki Apple: Mar 26, 2026: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Voices in the Dark" (1991) by Jacki Apple is 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...

Works by Gregory Whitehead - "Degenerates in Dreamland" (1991) and "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (1993): Mar 24, 2026: 11am - 11:59 am

Gregory Whitehead, "Degenerates in Dreamland" (1991) is a "radio manifesto in memory of the body in pieces." (Whitehead) Commissioned by New American Radio. Gregory Whitehead, "Shake, Rattle and Ro...

"The Bench" (1995) by Melody Sumner Carnahan and Laetitia Sonami: Feb 18, 2026: 4:30 pm - 5pm

This story takes place in a city square, depicting an episode in the lives of two street people, a man and a woman, as observed by a narrator who watches from her hotel balcony. Focusing in, the narra...

"Salvation at 1 A.M." (1991) by Donald Swearingen: Jan 23, 2026: 4:30 pm - 5pm

"Salvation at 1 A.M." (1991) by Donald Swearingen takes its inspiration from the myriad of promotional programming on late night cable television. Typically they are 30-minute advertisements that imit...

"Manananggal" (1994) by Ra Melody Sumner Carnahan, Laetitia Sonami, Marie Goyette: Jan 22, 2026: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Carnahan's story is about two powerful women who come under each other's influence, thereby releasing unconscious contents. Each begins to see the other as evil, bringing to life a type of vampire —a...

"Mouth Music" (1990) by Rachel Rosenthal and "Parrot Talk" (1986) by Helen Thorington: Jan 16, 2026: 3:50 pm - 4pm

"Mouth Music" (1990) by Rachel Rosenthal Playful vocalizations, with performances on straw, and a glass of water with straw. "Parrot Talk" (1986) by Helen Thorington Controlled insanity in sound....

"Dug-Out" (1990) by Maurice Kenny with original score by Helen Thorington and "Dream Sequence, Parts 1 & 2" (1979) by Helen Thorington: Jan 06, 2026: 11:20 am - 11:59 am

"Dug-Out" (1990) by Maurice Kenny with original 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 th...

"Brass Map" (1990) by Diana Meckley: Dec 19, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Brass Map" (1990) by Diana Meckley is a work for brass, voice, and computer. It explores ideas of perspective and the meaning we attribute to sound based on its proximity or simplicity. Brass Map mak...

"It is the Days, Lucy" (1994) by Kaye Mortley: Dec 13, 2025: 10am - 10:30 am

"It is the Days, Lucy" (1994) by Kaye Mortley is a beautifully subtle and complex work that is both document and reflection. Recorded on St. Lucy's Day in Stockholm, Sweden, the work is about the cult...

"Watunna (The Telling)" (1990) by Harris Skibell with Susan Lepselter: Dec 12, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Watunna (The Telling)" (1990) by by Harris Skibell with Susan Lepselter is a collaborative work that juxtaposes creation myths of the Makiritari culture in Venezuela—the oldest known creation myths i...

"See How She Sorrows" (1998) by Christine Baczewska: Dec 11, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"See How She Sorrows" (1998) by Christine Baczewska is "a colloquial operetta, drawing on events from my own life and on my acquisition of a Haitian Loa flag, a piece of religious folk art made of bea...

"Four Songs Lost in a Wall" (1995) by Rinde Eckert: Dec 03, 2025: 10am - 10:30 am

"Four Songs Lost in a Wall" (1995) by Rinde Eckert is An elaborate multi-vocal and instrumental piece based on the story of the famous eighteenth century castrate Carlo Broschi Farinelli. In 1737 Fari...

"Water Dripping in a Dish" (1995) by Malte Jaspersen: Nov 28, 2025: 4:30 pm - 5pm

"Water Dripping in a Dish" (1995) by Malte Jaspersen is an impressionistic sound portrait of the city of Kyoto, Japan, a modern metropolis with twelve hundred years of history. Water dripping through...

"The Auctioneer" (1989) by Ned Sublette: Nov 26, 2025: 5:30 pm - 6pm

A lively composition of voices that will introduce you to the skills and insights of master auctioneers, and to the aspirations and experiences of their students at the Missouri Auction School in Kans...

"World Soundprint: Pacific" (1993) by Joseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim and "Streets—Paris/Tokyo" (1992) by Kaye Mortley: Nov 24, 2025: 11am - 11:59 am

In "World Soundprint: Pacific" (1993) by Joseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim, two widely traveled musicians and well-known new music artists combine their creative sensibilities in search of the indigenous "s...

"Separation Anxiety: Not the Truth About Alchemy" (1997) by Norie Neumark: Nov 18, 2025: 1:20 pm - 1:50 pm

"Separation Anxiety: Not the Truth About Alchemy" (1997) by Norie Neumark is an alchemical aural text, a journey through stages of transformation. Historically, alchemy was a way of knowing through a...

"Swan Lake" (1989) by Jacki Apple: Nov 14, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

A satiric, ironic film noire "ballet" for radio, the original Swan Lake narrative is recast and resituated amidst the glittering surfaces and dark underside of late eighties Los Angeles where dreams a...

"Virtual Paradise—The Reality Tape" (1992) by Earwax Productions with David Lawrence: Nov 14, 2025: 4:30 pm - 5pm

"Virtual Paradise—The Reality Tape" (1992) by Earwax Productions with David Lawrence is an exciting production created in the spirit of the technology it focuses on. "Virtual Paradise" examines the id...

"The Logic of Waste" (1990) by Frances Dyson: Nov 13, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

How does Japan dispose of the tremendous amount of waste its gift wrapping tradition creates? What proposals have been developed in the Soviet Union to eliminate nuclear missiles? And what methods see...

"The Spark Heard 'Round the World" (1989) by Nicolas Collins: Nov 10, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"The Spark Heard 'Round the World" (1989) by Nicolas Collins is a sonic portrait of the world as revealed through electromagnetic phenomena. It is shaped out of the tremendous buzz, hum, and squawk of...

"Pork Dream in the American House of Image" (1994) by Carl Hancock Rux, with original music by Bill Toles: Nov 07, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

The story in this play is written as a libretto. Enveloping new wave music, post-ante-bellum rhythms, blues, gospel, show tunes, and pan-African percussions, Pork Dream is a postmodern musical fantasi...

"In the Devils Footsteps, Parts 1 & 2" (1993) by Helen Thorington with Sarah Montague: Oct 31, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

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" (1992) by Helen Thorington, with performances by Pamela Z, Agnieszka Waligorska, and Deidre Murray: Oct 30, 2025: 9:40 pm - 10pm

"Dracula's Wives" (1992) by Helen Thorington, with performances by Pamela Z, Agnieszka Waligorska, and Deidre Murray is an otherworldly geography peopled by the disembodied voices of the undead; a rad...

"Lovely Ways To Burn" (1990) by Gregory Whitehead: Oct 30, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Lovely Ways To Burn" (1990) by Gregory Whitehead is a fascinating docu-performance on the contradictory aspects of fire/electricity: seduction and power—fear and destruction. "Everybody's got the fev...

"Miatsoom (Reunion)" (1997) by Charles Amirkhanian: Oct 24, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Miatsoom (Reunion)" (1997) by Charles Amirkhanian explores the composer's ancestral roots and American heritage through the eyes of his 77 year old father, Benjamin Vresh Amirkhanian, who visited the...

"Shoot the Moving Things" (1989) by Rinde Eckert: Oct 24, 2025: 3:30 pm - 4pm

The story of an early morning hunting trip, told by the artist using electronic voice manipulations, evocative sound, and his exceptional singing voice. The music is Eckert's own—original new age, ra...

"Drifters" (1998) by Lou Mallozzi: Oct 22, 2025: 2:30 pm - 3pm

"Drifters" (1998) by Lou Mallozzi is an attempt to find ways for both language and place to drift: different representations of language drift among each other - from stories in fragments to phrases t...

"Clearing the Square" (1996) by Cathy Peters and "Frenzy in the Night" (1990) by Jacki Apple with Keith Antar Mason: Oct 21, 2025: 10am - 11am

"Clearing the Square" (1996) by Cathy Peters is a documentary in memory of the victims of the repression of the democracy movement in Tienanmen Square. An estimated two and a half thousand unarmed civ...

"States" (1997) by Shelley Hirsch: Oct 17, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"States" (1997) by Shelley Hirsch is complex soundscape that mixes polyphonic renditions of American pop songs ("Blue Moon" and "Blue Skies"), cocktail lounge monologues, techno music, exotica, Bulgar...

"Cement in My Way" (1993) by Pura Fe and Soni Moreno-Primeau: Oct 13, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Cement in My Way is a musical portrait of two composer/performers whose native heritage is the inspiration for their work. Soni Moreno-Primeau (Aztec/Mayan) and Pura Fe (Tuscarora) grew up in two very...

"Maria Rodriguez and the Hari Krishnas" (1994) by Lynn Nottage: Oct 09, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Maria Rodriguez and the Hari Krishnas" (1994) by Lynn Nottage is a tale of an Hispanic girl growing up in a closely knit brownstone community in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1970s. The story track...

"Parts of Speech" (1995) by Pamela Z: Oct 03, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Parts of Speech" (1995) by Pamela Z utilizes found texts from advertising, communications systems, "buzzwords," and slang. The sound sources for the work are a combination of actual samples from thes...

"Stop Talk" (1990) by Christian Marclay: Oct 02, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Old arias, scratched symphonies, pop ballads, cut-up verses, disco beats, children's stories, and numerous other vocal and musical fragments, mixed and manipulated into a lyrical composition on multip...

"Resonance" (1995) by Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland, "Windows" (1989) by John Rieger, "The Things One Has to Listen to... " (1990) by John J.H. Phillips: Sep 30, 2025: 10am - 11am

"Resonance" (1995) by Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland A fascinating series of short sonic compositions that make the hidden hearable. Works include: (1) Rome: Traffic Mantra—"In an installation in the...

"Cold War Diary" (1990) by Rinde Eckert: Sep 25, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A thought-travelogue. Somewhere in Europe a woman stands at her hotel window. She looks out over a public square, contemplates the monuments, writes mental postcards, and more importantly, asks about...

"Flying Hormones" (1989) by Erin Cressida Wilson and "Metal—Views from the Karamozov Vista" (1989) by Earwax Productions, Jim McKee, and Andy Newell: Sep 24, 2025: 11pm - 11:59 pm

"Flying Hormones" (1989) by Erin Cressida Wilson is a highly entertaining musical on teenage sexuality in the age of AIDS. Developed by playwright Erin Wilson and performed by a group of San Francisco...

"Europoly, Parts 1 & 2" (1990) by Helmut Kopetsky and Michael Maria Kammertons: Sep 19, 2025: 5pm - 6pm

"Europoly Parts1 & 2" by German documentarian Helmut Kopetzky with composer Michael Maria Kammertons is a marvelously produced tone-composition of continental proportions that took three years to comp...

"Blabber Mouth" (1994) by Erik Belgum: Sep 16, 2025: 2:50 pm - 3pm

Live electronic music based on the counterintuitive notion that intelligible speech emerges from noise by continually increasing the restrictions placed on the sonic raw material of human vocal cords....

"City of Water" (1994) by Jose Iges and Concha Jerez and "City in a Bottle" (1985) by John Rieger: Sep 16, 2025: 10am - 11am

"City of Water" (1994) by Jose Iges and Concha Jerez is a sonic visit to the Alhambra—palace of the Moorish kings in Granada, Spain and one of the most magnificent creations of Islamic architecture (t...

"Battle Mountain" (1991) by Scott Carrier: Sep 13, 2025: 12pm - 12:30 pm

Battle Mountain is the story of an attempted ski trip in Nevada at the time of the Gulf War. That year there was hardly any snow at all and the trip turned into an extended drive through the state’s m...

"Violet Flames, Parts 1 and 2" (1993) by Brenda Hutchinson: Sep 10, 2025: 4pm - 5pm

In rare interviews, sound and music recordings, "Violet Flames" portrays the philosophy and doctrine of the "Church Universal and Triumphant" headquartered in Corwin Springs and Emigrant, Montana. The...

"Audiographs: Songs from the Tenderloin" (1987) by Earwax Productions, Barney Jones, Marcos Kounilakis, and Jim McKee and "Wake for Tom" (1991) by Earwax Productions, and produced by Barney Jones and Jim McKee: Sep 08, 2025: 3pm - 4pm

"Audiographs: Songs from the Tenderloin" (1987) by Earwax Productions, Barney Jones, Marcos Kounilakis, and Jim McKee Condensed and dramatized portraits of people living on the streets of San Franc...

"Pickling" (1990) by Suzan-Lori Parks with sound design by Helen Thorington: Sep 05, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

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...