| A dense, pulsing
"action song," whose verses deal with America's intimate relationship
with firearms: "The gun and the Bible carved this nation out of the wilderness,"
a man exclaims. A tradition unfolds that links the voices of the past
as we know them through television cowboy movies and gangster films, to
the modern Annie-Get-Your-Gun, the business woman of the 'eighties with
her handy sub-machine gun. An evolving patchwork of movie excerpts and
TV ads, statements and information about guns, and of certain phrases
repeated like bullets. Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO. RealAudio 2.0 Preview Listen to full-length work [ra] [mp3] View the Script More Don Joyce and Negativland Biography Other Radio Works DON JOYCE (Oakland, CA) has
been working in radio since 1976. He is the producer of the late night
show "Over The Edge", in which he and other Negativland members (Mark
Hosler, Chris Grigg, David Willis, Richard Lyons) use the entire studio
as an instrument to produce a weekly session of live spontaneous sound
combustion. Over the last decade Negativland has developed a variety
of collaborative and listener interactive ways of presenting their noise/rock/found
sound/sound animation compositions, including Radio Teletours "from
our house to yours - phone charges only." Joyce and Negativland have
produced two works for NEW AMERICAN RADIO: GUNS!
(1989), and Advertising Secrets
(1991).
A Piddle Diddle Disneyland,
Part 1 & 2 (1994)
An edited two-part version of a special edition of the long-running "Piddle Diddle Report" -- an "in-depth report on current issues of substance" produced by the American Broadcasting System (ABS). This Piddle Diddle special brings us live and remote to Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where a communicastor's booth has been build high atop the slightly swaying, but structurally reliable Matterhorn. The occasion: an all-night gala to celebrate the opening of a huge parking garage just outside the park, a beautiful structure with its own exit off the freeway. From their privileged position, hosts Doug Piddle and Peter Diddle along with th Weatherman and Rex Everything (the famous but unpublishable author) draw an animated picture of the past, present, and future of this amusing amazement area. Advertising Secrets (1991) A dynamic blend of rhythmic elements and original audio constructs -- actual ad jingles, lines and phrases -- commentary by and about advertisers -- books on tape materials about how commercials are conceived and created -- plus various out-takes from commercial productions which depict the sophisticated process (and elaborate cynicism) of the professionals involved. "My motivation is to inspect and depict some of the paradoxical aspects of media advertisement which both attract and repel me as an artist in America -- a society whose entire economic well being rests solely on consumerism and the need to manufacture want." (Don Joyce) Time Zones (1990) A radio talk-show approach to the question: how many time zones are there in the Soviet Union? |