Wave Farm | Jacki Apple

Frenzy in the Night

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 a...

Leap of Faith

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 1: Episodes in Black and White

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. Raises questions about who speaks, who is listened to, who is heard, who is silenced, and how that has sh...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 2: Episodes in Black & White

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. Raises questions about who speaks, who is listened to, who is heard, who is silenced, and how that has s...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 3: Episodes in Black and White

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. Raises questions about who speaks, who is listened to, who is heard, who is silenced, and how that has sh...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 4: Voices of America

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 ru...

Redefining Democracy in America Part 6: A Leap of Faith

A six-part series confronting the deep schisms and contradictions in an America in crisis. With writer, performer Keith Antar Mason. A (white) Euro-American woman and a (black) African-American ma...

Swan Lake

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...

The Culture of Disappearance

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...

The Garden Planet Revisited

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...

Voices in the Dark

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...

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