Helen’s obituary in The New York Times.
Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94.
A pioneer in radio art and, later internet art, she created a blend of
synthesizer compositions and found sounds that opened new artistic terrain.
Helen Thorington, whose haunting sonic compositions helped bring the medium of
radio art to a national audience and provided the soundscape for filmmakers,
artists and choreographers, died on April 13 in Lincoln, Mass. She was 94.
Her partner and collaborator, Jo-Anne Green, said she died in a hospice from
complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Her death was not widely reported at the
time.
Radio art was a niche medium when Ms. Thorington started out, but she helped
bring attention to the form — through her work, which was frequently featured
on NPR and other noncommercial outlets, and later as the founder of a project
called New American Radio, which commissioned more than 300 works that were
broadcast on more than 70 radio stations for more than a decade starting in
1987.
Ms. Thorington began her pioneering work in the 1970s as a writer interested in
expanding her short stories and scripts into impressionistic radio dramas. She
blended her own musical forays on synthesizer with audio snippets of industrial
or nature sounds, unaccompanied improvisations by musicians on various
instruments, and samples from radio broadcasts. The result was the auditory
equivalent of an art installation.
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here...https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/helen-thorington-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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