"Stained" (1991) by Lisa Jones and Alva Rogers: A fury of passion, then a sudden loss and all that's left is the music. A woman is haunted by music she associates with a lover who disappeared without explanation at the height of their love affair. The piece looks at how much our memory and emotions are linked with music. Commissioned by New American Radio.

"Pork Dream in the American House of Image" (1994) by Carl Hancock Rux with original music by Bill Toles: The story in this play is written as a libretto. Enveloping new wave music, post-ante-bellum rhythms, blues, gospel, show tunes, and pan-African percussions, "Pork Dream" is a postmodern musical fantasia about an eternally young boy, "Pork," who was born and raised in a movie house at the beginning of the twentieth century. His family are the characters he has come to love, hate, and imitate, in Westerns, post-war detective flicks, turn-of-the-century race films, musicals, and Home Boy Hood Independents. As he enters the twenty-first century, Pork finds himself bored and all too familiar with the images he has lived with for a hundred years. So he decides to give up his eternal role as a film voyeur and become a filmmaker, facing his own creativity for the first time. But filmmakers seem to come and go—only the images and the audience live forever... Commissioned by New American Radio. 1994-1995.

In its ten years as a weekly national series, 1987-1998, New American Radio (NAR) commissioned and distributed over 300 original works: conceptual new drama, associational documentary, language explorations, sonic meditations, environmental compositions, musical explorations and works that pioneer new dimensions in acoustic space. Wave Farm is thrilled to be partnering with New American Radio to ensure these works remain available to listeners today and into the future.

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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