1983 Artists in Residence

Awarded Artists:

Ann Sargent-Wooster

“Ricochet Romance”
A four-channel audio work of 15-20 minutes to accompany a new video.

Associated project: Ricochet Romance


Doris Hayes

“The Needy Sound”
A 30-minute audio work for radio and to accompany a new film on autistic children. The film was funded, in part, by NEA.

Associated project: The Needy Sound


David van Tieghem

“Relics and Nomads”
Audio source material for a music-theater performance  work with film for U.S. tour.

Associated project: Relics and Nomads


Julia Lebrntritt

“New York City Lullabies”
Final editing and mix-down of field recordings of lullabies from various ethnic groups New York. This version of the piece is distributed by New Wilderness Foundation on their Audiographics cassette series.

Associated project: New York City Lullabies


Stuart Sherman

“Three Sound Pieces”
To realize, from scores, three sound pieces to be used in conjunction with his solo theatrical works.

Associated project: Three Sound Pieces


Celia Shapiro and Benny Powell

“Agent XYZ”
An 8-channel multi-lingual piece about the realities of the nuclear age using electronically reshaped speech, music and silence.

Associated project: Agent XYZ


Jon Gibson

“The Voyage of the Beagle”
Production of music/sounds for an opera with librettist Joanne Akalaitis, focusing on three aspects of Darwin’s historical voyage.

Associated project: The Voyage of the Beagle


Mierle Laderman Ukeles

“15 Tracks for 15 Trucks”
Two sound works for her massive exhibition titled “Touch Sanitation Show”, enlightening the public to the role of the garbage man in society.

Associated project: Mierle Laderman Ukeles


Richard Kostelanitz

“Epiphanies”
Post-production work on a radio piece entailing several hundred single sentence stories in different acoustical settings.

Associated project: Epiphanies