Here is an interesting site: http://www.transom.org

I played two strong works on this site.

Linked from the home page is an audio work by Susan Stone called "Here There
is No Moon":
http://www.transom.org/shows/2005/200511_here_there_is_no_moon.html . This
is a piece about suicide. Susan Stone says: "I began by talking to my
mother, who at the age of 83 revealed a 40 year-old secret about her many
attempts at taking her own life while she was a young mother. Hard for me to
get objectivity on that one, but a startling beginning to the gathering of
dozens of stories from many sides of the suicide issue: healthcare workers,
counselors, doctors, poets, philosophers, families, survivors. In fact, the
tape-gathering took place over 10 years."

I first heard Susan Stone's work around 1985 on one of the Tellus cassettes,
along with work by Gregory Whitehead. Really very extrordinary work. Since
then I've heard several other remarkable works by Susan Stone. She's an
important artist, I feel. She and Whitehead seem to have sort of come out of
the same egg, but they are by no means identical twins.

Another strong work is a Flash piece of storytelling by Liz Dubelman called
"Craziest" at http://www.transom.org/video/shows/2004/vidlit/craziest2.swf
(3.3 Mb). You don't have to like Scrabble to enjoy this piece but erm if you
do…

The transom.org site looks like its well worth further exploration.

ja