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If a Voice Like, Then What?
1984, voice cut-up, Tellus cassette, 2:48, why talk is a struggle
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What Words Want
1984, voice cut-up, various compilations, 4:19, lumen de lumenes
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Zigurrat
1984, dance soundtrack and compilation release, 4:38, chant degeneration
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Eva Can I Stab Bats in a Cave?
1984, dance soundtrack and Tellus cassette, 1:17, palindrome drone
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Dead Letters
1985, documentary essay, NPR, 55:20
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Display Wounds
microcast, diverse stations, 1:31
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Radio Degree Zero
1986, radio play, New American Radio, 26:30, vulnerological investigations
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Adioradio
1986, microcast, diverse stations, 1:42
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The Pleasure Of Ruins
CD release, staalplaat, 14:33, it’s the pleasure, and it’s alive
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Totenklage/Lacrymosa
1987, phonetic cross-cut, on Pleasure of Ruins CD, 3:35, the invisible generation, dead, torched
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Twilight for Idols
1987, microcast, Pleasure of Ruins CD, 4:37, radio utopia is no place
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The Problem With Bodies
vocal apparatus exercise, polycast, 1:20
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Oral or Anal?
1988, lettrist rotation from the cassette Writing on Air, 1:06
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Rats Live On No Evil Star
1989, palindromic inversion from the cassette Writing on Air, 0:54
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The Respirator
1990, microcast, New American Radio, 5:51, our policy is to keep the patient breathing
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Principia Schizophonica
1990, lecture demonstration, 7” release, RRR, 6:31
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How To Pronounce “Prosthesis”
1991, language lesson, for Tellus CD Site-less Sounds, 4:50
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This Is Not a Test
1991, emergency broadcast, for Tellus CD, 2:10
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Lovely Ways to Burn
1991, docufiction, New American Radio, 27:00, a pyromentary for those who got the fever
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Pressures of the Unspeakable
1992, documentary performance, ABC, 40:00, from the Institute for Screamscape Studies produced with Roz Cheney and John Jacobs
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We All Scream Alone
1992, excerpt from Pressures of the Unspeakable, 4:54
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Shake, Rattle, Roll
1993, radio play manifesto, New American Radio, 22:40
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Here Comes Everybody
excerpt from Shake, Rattle, Roll, 2:23, radio litany, with Dan Lander and an anonymous chorus
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The Thing About Bugs
1994, radio performance/play, New American Radio, 28:30, later CD release on Generator Sound Art Christof Migone and GW in philosophical improvisation
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The Exterminating Angel
excerpt from The Thing About Bugs, 3:57
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The Night Train
1995, telephonic journey for Rappel CD compilation, 15:00, you can’t get there from here
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Degenerates in Dreamland
1995, cabaret for the disembodied, New American Radio, 27:42, knees, noses and a phallus impudicus
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L’Indomptable
radio essay, France Culture, (excerpt, 2:24), by GW and Allen S. Weiss, duration of complete program, 45:00
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Nothing But Fog
1996, musical navigation for radio, Sound Culture SF, 40:00, GW and Richard Busch, with Ilse Pfeiffer
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Scratch Peace
1997, Villa Arson jukebox, 3:47, found voices
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On a Very Dirty Street
1997, Villa Arson jukebox, 5:11, found voices
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Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered
1997, documentary meditation, ABC, 40:00, with Michelle Griffiths, Leandro Katz, Chantal Thomas
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Ice Music
1997, LIAR report, NPR, 2:27
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Brain Mash
1998, LIAR report, NPR, 3:38
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The Bone Trade
imaginary conversation, BBC4 14:00, celebrity necrobilia with Walter Sculley
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The Hidden Language of Trees
1998, imaginary conversation, BBC4 14:00, they are trying to tell us something
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The Bottom of the Mind
1998, imaginary conversation, BBC4, 14:00, walking the circle via the existential phonograph
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Mind, Body and Soul
1998, imaginary conversation, BBC4, 14:00, artist eats three big books
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Mr. Whitehead, Are You There?
1999, group love letter for mother radio, 5:26
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The Marilyn Room
2000, radio play, BBC4, (excerpt, 3:07), voices on excerpt: Henry Strozier, Leslie Nixon, duration of complete play is 56:00
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All About Squid
for Writing Aloud CD, 2:10
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Marinade á la Tête
2000, cooking show, BBC4, 4:00
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Eau de Moi
2000, entrepreneurial performance, BBC4, 4:00
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Delivery System No. 1
2001, voice/face play for radio, 9:30, Genrator Sound Art release
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American Heavy
2001, radio play, BBC4, (excerpt, 5:28), voices on excerpt: Jonathan Epstein, Corinna May, Allyn Burrows and Elizabeth Ingram, duration of complete play is 56:00
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Evil Axis
2002, wordplay cartoon, BBC3, 1:44
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On One Lost Hair
2003, documentary performance, BBC4, (excerpt, 4:25) the last voyage of Horatio Nelson, duration of complete program: 14:00
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Resurrection Ranch
2003, docufictive travelogue, BBC4, (excerpt, 3:17), with Virginia Crompton, GW, and Karen Lee as Cat Slade, duration of complete program is 27:30
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The Loneliest Road
2003, radio road movie, BBC 3, (excerpt, 11:08) music by Nick Zammuto and Paul Dejong. voices on excerpt: Karen Lee, Jon Swan, GW and Anne Undeland. duration of complete play is 88:30.
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Little Tina
2004, excerpt from WFMU live-to-air screamscape, with Kenny G.
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The Knee
2004, song setting for a poem by Christian Morgenstern, 2:21, performed on the whistled snymbal, by GW
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As We Know
2004, outcast epistemology, after Donald Rumsfeld, 2:09, no we just don’t know
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Danse Macabre
soundtrack for marionette theater, 11:34 voice by Michel Nedjar
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Project Jericho
2004, docufictional report, BBC3, (excerpt, 3:53), produced with Mark Burman, duration of complete program: 19:30
Gregory Whitehead is a writer, audio artist, and the director of sea-crow media. He has produced over fifty radio features, voice works, and earplays for programs in the United States and abroad. Drawing on his background in improvised music and experimental theater, Whitehead has created a body of radiophonic work distinguished by its playfully provocative blend of text, concept, voice, music, and pure sound. Production credits include: Dead Letters, Pressures of The Unspeakable (Prix Italia, 1992), and New American Radio commissions: Lovely Ways to Burn (1990), Shake, Rattle and Roll (1992) (BBC Award, Prix Futura, 1993) and The Thing About Bugs (1994). He is also the author of numerous essays on subjects relating to language, technology, and “the public”, and he co-edited Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde, a selective history of audio and radio art (MIT Press).
Gregory Whitehead (Nantucket, MA) is a writer, radiomaker and audio artist based in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Allen S. Weiss considers him to be a major international figure in the fields of audio and radio art, from the 1980s to the present.
Active in cassette culture during the 1980s, his early works include Disorder Speech (1985), Display Wounds (1986), Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1987), The Pleasure of Ruins (1988), Writing On Air (1988) and Reptiles and Wildfire (1989). In 1991, RRRecords released a 7” vinyl record titled Vicekopf.
Whitehead collaborated with Christof Migone on the 1995 radio play, The Thing About Bugs, for New American Radio. Other radioplays from the 1990s include Pressures of the Unspeakable (1992), Nothing But Fog (1996) and Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered (1997).
Since 2000, Whitehead has produced numerous plays and documentary essays for BBC Radio, including The Marilyn Room (2000), American Heavy (2001), The Loneliest Road (2003), On One Lost Hair (2004), No Background Music (2005), The Day King Hammer Fell From The Sky (2007) and Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Dick (2009). The Loneliest Road and No Background Music (featuring Sigourney Weaver) both won Sony Gold Academy Awards.
In 2001 the independent producer Gregory Whitehead made a generous private donation to the Åke Blomström Award.
Whitehead has also been a speaker at various conferences and festivals.