FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2003
New American Radio
http://somewhere.org/NAR/NAR\_home.htm
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce its
redesigned, updated and expanded NEW AMERICAN RADIO (NAR) website that
includes full-length radio art programs by American and European
artists. Currently available are works by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple,
Diamanda Galas, Sheila Davies, Suzan-Lori Parks, Gregory Whitehead and
others. Additional programs will be added to the site in the coming months.
A weekly series distributed to public radio stations nationwide from
1987-1998, NEW AMERICAN RADIO includes over 300 original works
commissioned from such artists as Pauline Oliveros, Rachel Rosenthal,
Christian Marclay, Alvin Curran, and Carl Hancock Rux. During its 15
years of broadcast life, NAR became known
May 13, 2004
New American Radio
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce the
availability of 115 full-length "New American Radio" works for online
listening at http://somewhere.org; and the release of an article about
the series and radio art by Jacki Apple.
"Although avant-garde artists have experimented with radio since its
inception, it was the advent in the 1970s of non-commercial,
listener-sponsored public radio on the FM band, including college and
local community stations that opened up the possibilities of art on the
airwaves, not simply as an isolated incident but as a viable alternative
to rigidly formatted commercial radio dominated by advertising
interests. This new opportunity was augmented by the revolution in both
recording and broadcast technology and easy consumer access to
sophisticated equipment and processes that rapidly changed the nature of
production and distribution. Thus in the 1980s radio and audio
artworks–sound art, experimental narratives, sonic geographies, pseudo
documentaries, radio cinema, conceptual and multimedia performances–a
whole panoply of broadcast interventions that confronted the politics of
culture, subverted mass media news and entertainment, and challenged
aural perceptions, infiltrated the broadcast landscape and acquired an
audience. New American Radio was foremost among the series nurturing
this work, commissioning, producing and distributing contemporary
American radio art nationally and internationally for over ten years."
From "New American Radio and Radio Art" by Jacki Apple.
http://somewhere.org/NAR/writings/apple.htm