"Europoly Parts1 & 2" by German documentarian Helmut Kopetzky with composer Michael Maria Kammertons is a marvelously produced tone-composition of continental proportions that took three years to complete. With the help of sound materials sent by colleagues from radio stations all over Europe, a virtual Europe was to arise - giving flesh to the theoretical concept of a new Europe and bureaucrats had been toiling over for years. Finally the realization dawned: there is no single formula for a new Europe! Europe already lives, in a vibrant, chaotic, post-modern Babel.

"Europoly" is a document about its own development: a cheerful and occasionally desperate game made up of acoustic expressions of life in Europe that arrived on tape and in letters - including lists of materials, clever thoughts and crazy ideas. Unlike anything you may have heard on air in the U.S.

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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