Wave Farm | Gregory Whitehead

Dead Letters

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "In 1983, Susan Stone and I received funding from the NPR satellite program development fund for the production of two radio features within a genre we called “cinema in th...

Degenerates in Dreamland

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

Display Wounds

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "In 1985, while still working on Dead Letters, I became fascinated by the idea of wound reading, and committed myself to the practice of vulnerology, collaborating with Phil...

Evil Axis: Fun Things to do With Silly Words #342

Gregory Whitehead sent in several contributions, this among them, for free103point9 and A-Noise's coverage of the Republican National Conventions and surrounding protests, in late August and early Sep...

In Malpais

"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.

L’indomptable (The Unconquerable)

L’indomptable, an experimental radio essay made for Radio France's Atelier de Création Radiophonique in collaboration with Allen S. Weiss, centers on an exploration of artist Michel Nedjar’s extraordi...

Leave It or Double It

Whitehead writes, "All I knew for sure from the outset is that I would aim for a duration of 33:33, and that I would use the source material of translated excerpts from the Turin newspaper La Stampa r...

Lovely Ways To Burn

A fascinating docu-performance on the contradictory aspects of fire/electricity: seduction and power—fear and destruction. "Everybody's got the fever," a chorus sings in many variations, providing the...

Phantom Pain—The Theater of Operations

"I opened this place," the narrator says, "as an inter-disciplinary center for exploring the phenomenon of phantom pain. Phantom pain is the experience of pain in an area where the real organs of sens...

Pressures of the Unspeakable

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "October 3, 1991, I arrived in Sydney, Australia with little more than a general concept of an Australian Screamscape, carried inside the fictive envelope of an imaginary Ins...

Reptiles and Wildfire

Soundspaces of water, rain, and wild fire transport the listeners to a place where "The Heat is heavy, but soft. And all that moves, moves quietly." A dream-like piece of great sensual beauty and lyri...

Shake, Rattle and Roll

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "Shake, Rattle, Roll is a radio manifesto dating from 1993. I used every category of material at my disposal, and every compositional and editing technique, explored in short...

The Pleasure of Ruins

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "Inspired by the book with the same title (by Rose Macauley, with remarkable photographs by Roloff Beny), I set out to conjure an acoustic ruin through the poetic disintegrat...

The Pleasure of Ruins

Begins with a haunting new age style incantation of obliterated civilizations—a slow-paced voicing of ruins. Then, with closely-timed razor interruptions, brief outbursts of sound are heard that incre...

The Respirator

Sensual and unusual audio art inspired by the terminal illness of the broadcast medium. "There is no sign of brain activity, but we are able to keep the patient breathing through the use of the respir...

The Thing About Bugs

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "Etymological radiophony created in collaboration with Christof Migone for New American Radio in 1995. An exploration of deep bug muckmusik, digital hygiene, ethnic cleansing...

Totenklage/Lacrimosa

Two words migrate into each other to compose an acoustic requiem. Commissioned by New American Radio.

What Murmurs

Writes Gregory Whitehead, "I am speaking to you now from the edge of a very large swampland. I cannot really see where the water ends and the land begins. Radio play loves edges: between seduction and...

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