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 Roll" (1993) is a personal history inscribed in a technical history. Or, as Whitehead himself describes it, "The strange and inescapable desire to electrocute myself, under the delusion that I will then somehow be able to fly. Brainwaves and radiowaves: magnetic dreams. BUT: the con/current fear of the CRASH, 'ending up in a burn unit.'"Radio as a sensual seduction and political provocation. Radio as a theater of ideas. Winner of the 1993 Prix Futura Berlin. Commissioned by New American Radio.

Gregory Whitehead also writes that "'Shake, Rattle, Roll' is a radio manifesto ... I used every category of material at my disposal, and every compositional and editing technique, explored in shorter castaways; digital audio tape was part of my studio by then, used in tension and interplay with my workhorse Otari reel-to-reels. To decay or not to decay, among my questions.

Made during a very intense period of two weeks for New American Radio, the hybrid assemblage explores themes of structural entropy in relation to free play; the living dancing with the dead; the bottomless cave mixed with the ephemeral utopia; songs collapsed into screams and scrambles; language elucidated and on the verge of disintegration." For more information visit https://gregorywhitehead.net/2012/07/28/shake-rattle-roll/

New American Radio was organized by Helen Thorington, Executive Producer and Regine Beyer, Associate Producer. A special thanks to both Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green for their generous support and collaboration of this partnership, and their contribution to the field at large!

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