The Radio Art Hour: Jacki Apple: Jun 11, 2022

This week, two works from Jacki Apple from the New American Radio archives are featured. First, "Voices in the Dark" is a radio work for outer and inner space, in four sections. The cosmos is an audio...

The Radio Art Hour: Jacki Apple, Rachel Rosenthal: Mar 20, 2021

This week: Tune in Jacki Apple's "Leap of Faith" from 1992, and Rachel Rosenthal's "filenameFUTURFAX_1990," both introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Jess Spear. Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a...

Leap of Faith: Feb 23, 2021

The sixth and last in her series, Redefining America (1991-92), Jacki Apple’s Leap of Faith (1992), centers on a conversation between artist Keith Antar Mason, an African-American man and Apple herse...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 4: The Voices of America: Jan 01, 1992

Redefining Democracy in America is a six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. Redefining Democracy in America Part 4: The Voices of America posed the...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 6: A Leap of Faith: Jan 01, 1992

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With KPFK-FM, Los Angeles. Posed the questions "What would you say to your fellow citizens if you were runn...

The Garden Planet Revisited: Jan 01, 1992

Past and present history resonate through ruins of the future as American astronaut Captain Charlie, a paragon of late twentieth century technological man, hurtles through time and space. Stranded on...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 1: Episodes in Black and White: Jan 01, 1991

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With collaborating writer/performers Linda Albertano, Keith Antar Mason, and Akilah Nayo Oliver. Raises qu...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 2: Episodes in Black & White: Jan 01, 1991

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With collaborating writer/performers Linda Albertano, Keith Antar Mason, and Akilah Nayo Oliver. Raises q...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 3: Episodes in Black and White: Jan 01, 1991

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With collaborating writer/performers Linda Albertano, Keith Antar Mason, and Akilah Nayo Oliver. Raises q...

The Culture of Disappearance: Jan 01, 1991

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 exterminated species of the nineteenth and twentieth ce...

Voices in the Dark: Jan 01, 1991

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 perhaps other) histories in which time melts...

Frenzy in the Night: Jan 01, 1990

Frenzy in the Night is about growing up black and male in America, finding your own voice and becoming an artist, the pain of racism, and the dream of freedom. It is a spiritual quest for cultural and...

Swan Lake: Jan 01, 1989

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...