oh, that is sad news - but what a wonderful long and productive life! i
remember meeting her many years ago, she was a very cheerful and vibrant
person. she was the co-founder of turbulence.org, a great resource,
which i think has not been active for years but can still be found here:
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/about.html
On 20.06.23 21:46, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
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.
More here...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/helen-thorington-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/helen-thorington-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare>
Wishing you well
Marc
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