"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...

"Sooner or Later" (1991) by Bob Ostertag: Aug 31, 2025: 6:30 pm - 7pm

"Sooner or Later" (1991) by Bob Ostertag is a musical work that grew out of the composers ten year stay in El Salvador. "There is a boy and his father is dead. And no angels sang and no one was better...

"The Long Sufferings of Anna Magdalena Bach" (1998) by Jon Rose: Aug 31, 2025: 3:30 pm - 4pm

"The Long Sufferings of Anna Magdalena Bach" is a set of variations on a recently discovered theme by Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife: mother of 13 children, hard-working housewife and composer. C...

"White for a Weekend" (1991) by Homer Jackson: Aug 29, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"White for a Weekend" (1991) by Homer Jackson is a comedy drama, speculating on what being white could mean to a non-white. The story follows the misadventures of Bobby Burnett, a young Black sales re...

"Cloud Chamber" (1977) by Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland: Aug 28, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Cloud Chamber" is an artistic exploration of the question: Can a city be heard as a harmonic symphony? It presents recordings from their sound installation series in which cities were made to resonat...

"New World del Vecchio" (1992) by Lou Mallozzi: Aug 22, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"New World del Vecchio" (1992) by Lou Mallozzi is a work about the blurry line between exploration and exploitation, and about the interaction of history, memory, and fiction. Through interwoven narra...

"Aka Saga"— "Part 1: AKAKLAKLAK—Return from Death" (1990), "Part 2: Alak" (1990), and "Part 3: Akamer" by Pekka Siren and Agnieszka Waligorska: Aug 19, 2025: 12pm - 1:30 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...

"Audiographs: Songs from the Tenderloin" (1987) and "Wake for Tom" (1991) by Earwax Productions with Barney Jones, Marcos Kounilakis, and Jim McKee: Aug 19, 2025: 10am - 11am

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

"Lingua Franca" (1992) by Lou Mallozzi: Aug 15, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Lingua Franca" (1992) by Lou Mallozzi is a rich playful composition on language and communication that exploits a variety of language combinations to comment on the impossibility of complete communic...

"Into the Interface" (1994) by Norie Neumark: Aug 13, 2025: 5:30 pm - 6pm

"Into the Interface" (1994) by Norie Neumark is an outstanding audio art documentary about the way computers are re-shaping the face of popular culture and altering the way we look and interact. The p...

"Short Summer at Longhurst" (1992) by William Morelock and "Terra dell'Imaginazione (Land of the Imagination)" (1990) by Helen Thorington: Aug 09, 2025: 7pm - 8pm

"Short Summer at Longhurst" (1992) by William Morelock is about four young people in search of a comedy of manners who get caught up in a succession of plot conventions and verbal repartees straight o...

"Talking to a Loudspeaker" (1989) by Dan Lander: Aug 05, 2025: 10am - 10:30 am

Recorded in the comfort of the artist's own home, the work offers a humorous challenge to traditional notions of radio production. In a series of short sketches, Lander pokes fun at the radio call-in...

"The Underseen World of Claude Jateau, Part 1: The River of Angels" (1989) and "The Underseen World of Claude Jateau, Part 2: A Trick of Perspective" (1989) by Sleight of Mind Group: Aug 02, 2025: 12pm - 1pm

Do you remember the long-running Jacques Cousteau nature documentary series on television? In "The River of Angels" you'll meet his radio cousin, Claude Jateau. With a delightful French accent and a t...

"Schrei 27" (1994) by Diamanda Galás: Aug 01, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Schrei 27" (1994) by Diamanda Galás consists of several short performances over the space of twenty-seven minutes alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. The performances ar...

"The Culture of Disappearance" (1991) by Jacki Apple: Jul 31, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"The Culture of Disappearance" (1991) by Jacki Apple is a radio "opera" about extinction, and the conditions of loss and denial endemic to industrial and post-industrial society. It is a dirge for the...

"Walking Tune (A Room-Music for Percy Grainger)" (1986) by Charles Amirkhanian: Jul 25, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Walking Tune (A Room-Music for Percy Grainger)" (1986) by Charles Amirkhanian is an homage to Australian-American composer Percy Grainger. Grainger's "Walking Tune" for solo piano was conceived in 19...

"In Malpais" (1990) by Gregory Whitehead: Jul 25, 2025: 2:45 pm - 3pm

"It's the Malpais. We're talkin' about hot sand, black rocks, and a whole lotta dead things." A dreamlike geography. Commissioned by New American Radio. In its ten years as a weekly national series...

"Voices in the Dark" (1991) by Jacki Apple and "The Garden Planet Revisited" (1992) by Jacki Apple: Jul 23, 2025: 10pm - 11pm

"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...

"The Thing About Bugs" (1994) by Christof Migone with Gregory Whitehead, "Cricket Voice" (1987) by Hildegard Westercamp, "Aphids and Others" (1990) by Helen Thorington: Jul 18, 2025: 3pm - 3:45 pm

"The Thing About Bugs" (1994) by Christof Migone with Gregory Whitehead Writes Gregory Whitehead, "Etymological radiophony created in collaboration with Christof Migone for New American Radio in 1995...

"We Elect To" (1989) by Donald Swearingen and "Politics as Usual" (1989) by Charles Amirkhanian: Jul 15, 2025: 10am - 11am

"We Elect To" (1989) by Donald Swearingen is a radio opera featuring the voices of seven American presidents and singer Pamela Z, who counterbalances their lofty words with the reality of newspaper he...

"MELOG XRAM" (1990) by Richard Teitelbaum: Jul 10, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

From out of the East comes the story of the giant MELOG. Conceived originally by the old philosopher XRAM to help the people, and brought to life by the crafty NINEL, MELOG soon grew powerful, corrupt...

"I Am 99 Years Old" (1991) by Mayako Kubo: Jul 07, 2025: 3:30 pm - 4pm

"I Am 99 Years Old" (1991) by Mayako Kubo is a multi-layered and multi-textured collage with two narrative strains: people's voices stating their age, from 99 years down to 1 year of age, and moving t...

"Roadside Tombstones" (1970) by Arsenije Jovanovic and Enriko Josif: Jul 03, 2025: 3pm - 3:15 pm

"Roadside Tombstones" (1970) by Arsenije Jovanovic and Enriko Josif is powerful and moving "ritualistic commemorative service to the victims of war and to a nation in the agony of death." (Jovanovic)...

"Falling Free" (1989) by Diana Chang: Jun 27, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

In a curious repeat of the history of Asian immigrants, this work focuses on an elderly Chinese-American woman left behind in an American suburb by a husband who wishes to return to his native China....

"Tracing the Radio Landscape" (1992) by Gustavo Matamoros: Jun 20, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Tracing the Radio Landscape" (1992) by Gustavo Matamoros is a sound portrait based on "snapshots" of living room environments that include a radio as an active sound element. The first layer of the w...

"I Don't Speak English Only, Vato!" (1995) by Guillermo Gomez-Pena with Sergio Arau, Yareli Arizmendi, Betto Arcos, and Ellen Klaver: Jun 18, 2025: 5:30 pm - 6pm

"I Don't Speak English Only, Vato!" (1995) by Guillermo Gomez-Pena with Sergio Arau, Yareli Arizmendi, Betto Arcos, and Ellen Klaver challenges the notion of English as the official language of the Un...

"Loco-Motive" (1991) by Suzan-Lori Parks: May 30, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

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...

"Advertising Secrets" (1991) by Don Joyce and Negativland: May 16, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

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...

"Degenerates in Dreamland" (1991) by Gregory Whitehead: May 09, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"Degenerates in Dreamland" (1991) by Gregory Whitehead is "A radio manifesto in memory of the body in pieces." (Whitehead) Commissioned by New American Radio. In its ten years as a weekly national se...

"Mesmer—Secrets of the Human Frame" (1991) by Toni Dove: May 08, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Both abstract and sensual, sci-fi and reality, "Mesmer" traces the way we construct human identity and subjectivity, and reflects the images we have created of our relationship to technology: "There w...

"Cement in My Way" (1993) by Pura Fe and Soni Moreno-Primeau: May 01, 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...

"Redefining Democracy in America, Parts 1-4 and 6" by Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason: Apr 25, 2025: 2:30 pm - 5pm

Tune in for a special broadcast of the multi-part work "Redefining Democracy in America" by Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason that confronts the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis...

"O Little Town of East New York" (1992) by Shelley Hirsch: Apr 23, 2025: 5:30 pm - 6pm

An autobiographical docu-musical about growing up in East New York. The artist describes, creates and inhabits remembered environments, situations and persons. Musical fragments, characterizations, ac...

"Menage à Trade" (1994) by Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Apr 19, 2025: 12:30 pm - 1pm

"Menage à Trade" (1994) by Guillermo Gómez-Peña with radio journalist Betto Arcos and Yareli Arizmendi, Sergio Arau, Mireille Perron, and others is an experimental multilingual radio program created i...

"A Decade In Your Ear Parts 1 and 2" (1976) by Wes Nisker: Apr 18, 2025: 5pm - 6pm

This two-part documentary is not just another collage of the late sixties and early seventies; it may well be the news-sound collage of that turbulent time: one that speaks the ideas of justice, freed...

"Flying Apples" (1995) by Kui Dong: Apr 15, 2025: 10:45 am - 11am

An algorithmic composition that takes the listener into the colorful, playful, and fantastic realm of an unfinished childhood dream. Programmed in Small-talk language, using extremely nested patterns...

"What's Left?" (1992) by Alan Snitow and Claire Schoen: Apr 11, 2025: 5pm - 5:30 pm

"What's Left?" Created by Alan Snitow and Claire Schoen What does it mean for the Left in the West now that upheavals in the former Soviet Union have unraveled the Bolshevik Revolution? Based on hund...

"Search for the New World Pataphysical Order—A Meditation in Time of War" (1991) by Rachel Rosenthal: Apr 07, 2025: 3:30 pm - 4pm

What has happened to us? After the promise of 1990, we find ourselves catapulted back to the time when brute force solved all problems. 1991 is an historic blight. Rosenthal goes on a tour of her own...

"A Hole in the Head—Brain Amplifications and Herniated Texts" (1993) by Christof Migone: Apr 04, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

"A Hole in the Head—Brain Amplifications and Herniated Texts" (1993) by Christof Migone is a collection of portraits for those with dysfunctional attention spans and disrespect for proper microphone t...

"Ethnic Cleansing" (1993) by Lisa Jones with music by Guido Osorio: Apr 04, 2025: 4pm - 4:30 pm

"Ethnic Cleansing" (1993) by Lisa Jones with music by Guido Osorio," is a surreal satire that begins as a fireside chat but quickly leaps out of the frame to become real. It addresses the question: Wh...

Hildegard Westerkamp - "A Walk Through the City (1981) and "Cricket Voice" (1987): Mar 27, 2025: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"A Walk Through the City" (1981) by Hildegard Westerkamp is an environmental composition based on a poem by Canadian poet and playwright Norbert Ruebsaat. Urban sounds such as car horns, sirens, brake...

"Dracula's Wives" (1992) by Helen Thorington, with performances by Pamela Z, Agnieszka Waligorska, and Deidre Murray: Mar 26, 2025: 11:45 pm - 11:59 pm

"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...

"Dreaming of Fat Men" (1993) by Lorelai Harris and "American Dining: A Working Woman's Moment" (1989) by Jerri Allyn: Mar 20, 2025: 9pm - 10pm

"Dreaming of Fat Men" created by Lorelai Harris A delightful and insightful dinner conversation among five women of size. Why do they love to eat? Do they really all eat for the pleasure of it? In w...

"Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women" (1993) by Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor: Mar 14, 2025: 7:30 pm - 8pm

Based on the powerful one-woman performance Jones toured in 1991-92. The story follows the real-life adventures and misadventures of an artist hired by the California Arts Council to teach "aerobics"...

"Maria Rodriguez and the Hari Krishnas" (1994) by Lynn Nottage and "Clearing the Square" (1996) by Cathy Peters: Mar 14, 2025: 4:30 pm - 5:30 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...