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2011-08-07 Trips Travelling ... sometimes on foot and sometimes by rail, float tank, balloon and armchair. We sit in the jump seat of a Marauder aeroplane as it executes a mission over Germany, we take a walking trip on the outskirts of London, we review the history of rail travel - and visit the head space of those who almost never leave the couch, man.
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2011-07-31 Night Air Live - Housing the Situation In this edition of the show an interactive sonic city, Bloomsday shenanigans, Mexican-American Kraut/Psych rockers The Mars Volta in conversation and an extended chat with the McLuhan Project thinker-in-residence, McKenzie Wark who´s talking about those near-mythical revolutionary bohemians who went digging for the beach under the pavement - the Situationists.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-07-24 Transit wave International and inspirational - we present a `rough guide´ to Phonography -the art of recording sounds from the environment that surrounds us. We also present the work of artists exploring sounds intrinsic to broadcast on radio. From the seminal works of Stockhausen, Cage and Tenney through the culture jamming theatrics of Negativland and into the psychological minimalism of John Duncan, radio has served as an invaluable and expressive tool within the continued history of avant-garde c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-07-17 Media Mess Age As Radio National acknowledges the centenary of the birth of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the Night Air listens to the great thinker speak (and sing) as he massages our minds into new shapes.
And media manipulator extraordinaire, Buttress O'Kneel surfs the flux between truth and information and joins the virtual dots between Julian Assange and Charlie Sheen!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-07-10 Identities Coinciding with NAIDOC week The Night Air explores Identities - Indigenous and otherwise.
We think about what it means to be black, white...or both. Indigenous philosopher Romaine Moreton considers how shadows are cast and we follow the great White Way down some strange byways. Also `Australian identity´ - funny or what?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-07-03 Jungle Is it just us or is it getting hot in here? And where are all those snake vines coming from? On a trip deep into the jungle we trek along some partly-worn paths and create a few inroads of our own, pushing aside the carnivorous plants to look what might be lurking underfoot and swinging overhead.
John Hughes `On Language´
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All In The Mind: Your Inner Ape
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2011-06-26 Night Air Live - Sonar Deli The Night Air in live mode on Radio National we´re on a music and sound trip this evening... visiting Spain's Sonar festival, hearing from the creator of a video harp, crate-digging on the net for rare 45s of earthquakes and seeing what tasty sounds we can get at Radio National's Deli.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-06-19 Keys and Combinations Discover who invented the lock and the key needed to unlock it. Visit a key museum in Paris, the Florida Keys, Circular Quay in Sydney, the QWERTY keyboard and the keys on a piano. Later we key into and combine the Fibonacci series, the Fourier series, The Name of the Rose, and Finnegans Wake.
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2011-06-12 Landscape Be lured away from your comfort zone and travel into unfamiliar territory to experience landscapes through the sounds of traditional landowners, explorers and colonialists. Join Christopher Columbus, The Melbourne Underground and Buzz Aldrin on a mixed up journey of unparalleled proportions.
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2011-06-05 Vocal Chords In this Night Air we open the voice box to strum the many chords of the voice.
Our vocal symphony includes passages on the theory of the voice, the electronic voice, the singing voice, the synthesised voice, the musical voice, the voice-over voice, the accented voice and the haunted voice. The legion of voices rises in a cacophony of notes, vibrating in tune to The Night Air.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-05-29 TEDx on Night Air Live Night Air Live presents highlights from the recent TEDx Sydney event, in which a diverse array of 'thinkers and doers' get just 15 minutes to dazzle a hand-picked audience with a talk on their pet subject. As well as the assembled TEDx presenters we'll hear from two other men known for their way with words - the controversial British conspiracy theorist David Icke and the late African-American poet and singer, the 'Godfather of rap', Gil Scott-Heron.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-05-22 Hybrids Hybrids might be a class of their own or perhaps they´re just a real mixture of happy accidents and sometimes unhappy mistakes which go to make up a menagerie which includes a Tasmanian tiger, the mule and the goudad.
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2011-05-15 Singing the Revolution This evening - music and social change. Twenty years ago Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians joined hands and emptied their lungs in mass singing demonstrations which toppled oppressive regimes.
In 2011 young insurrectionist Arab musicians expressed themselves in tracks posted on the internet, inspiring producers in Australian to create their own revolutionary mixtapes. And we recall a soft musical uprising when country met soul and young southern whites in the US embraced peace, love and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-05-08 Musicality Do we have a natural connection to music? Can it be healing, energizing and something which comes naturally to us all? Chaotic and messy, calm and meditative - join us on an emotional roller-coaster ride of sound in this therapeutic edition.
Part One: You Have A Language
We all have a language. The nuances of how we communicate add to our character, whether it's through speaking, signing, typing, facial expressions or even music, make us who we are.
Part Two: The Music of Sound
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2011-05-01 Ratbags Are you feeling a bit ratty? Or are you the full-blown ratbag? We´re spending time with infamous Australian ratbags and their counterparts from the sewers.
We´ll listen in to them squeaking, bad mouthing, trouble making and scrabbling down dark tunnels. Our ratbags, with red lights in their beady eyes, lay out their vision of the world - from the tail up.
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2011-04-29 King Thynge Reflects on the essences of monarchy in three continents: Europe, Africa and Asia, especially those intangible, ineffable qualities that separate kings from the rest of us.
For the 'King Thynge', Tony Barrell drew from a variety of sources, texts and audio contemporary and ancient: the last words of Charles I on the divine rights of kings, Edward VIII on his abdication, Prince Philip on why the colonies like royalty so much and some brief asides from that most secular of all modern kings E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-04-24 Style Whether you choose them to create a different identity or are obliged to don them to identify with a group, clothes tell the world something about yourself. Join us on the discovery of skirts for men, airline branding, fashion dolls and that icon of 80s fashion, Leigh Bowery.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-04-17 Listening In This evening we are exploring the theme of listening by asking what is listening?
We'll get hear some not so simple answers from Oslo Davis a professional eavesdropper, various ear mechanics and a couple of people with unique perspectives on the world of sound; a former music retailer Greg Hartney, who suffers from nerve deafness and radio broadcaster Glen Morrow who is legally blind.
Brain waves, sound waves, shock waves....radio waves - angels and angst, memory and message.
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2011-04-10 The Brixton Insurrection + The Last Collage It's 30 years since the Brixton riots - also remembered as the Brixton Insurrection or Brixton Uprising. We listen to the songs, sounds and memories of this tumultuous time in England.
In the second hour of the show we farewell a much-loved ABC broadcaster and co-founder of The Night Air, Tony Barrell. Tony was just last week dubbed 'the Punk Pope' of the radio feature. He left us so suddenly we're still reeling from the shock. He also left us with a wonderful legacy of creative examples ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-04-03 Futures We reach into the past to imagine the future - with utopian socialist, William Morris´ News from Nowhere (1890); the dark scenario of future fear spelled out in the speculative documentary, Alternative 3 (1977) and in Denmark we enter an Institute of Future Studies and contemplate the coming Dream Society.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-03-27 Light and shade A flick of a switch and then there was a show about the humble light globe, the fluoro tube and that old ultra-violet. But on the flip side we contrast with talks by photographers who´ve been able to manipulate the dark as well.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-03-20 Surfin' the air with Jimmy Dibble Celebrating a great Australian media voice while at the same time tuning into his lesser known flip side.
From it's gala opening night in 1956 James Dibble presented the ABC TV News in Sydney for 27 years, becoming one of the most recognisable and loved faces on Australian television.
Sadly, James passed away late last year but this evening his voice is in the air again as The Night Air presents a special retrospective tribute.
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2011-03-13 Post-Human One day in the future, living with robots might be the most natural thing in the world. But how come Japanese people are already able to welcome such machines into their society? This evening we meet scientists, writers and robots to explore the looming Post-Human world.
Scientists like Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at the cutting edge of robotics and writers like Donna Haraway and William Gibson express their hopes and fears about a future in which the lives of humans and robots are inextr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-03-06 Rubber T his flexible commodity stretches across the globe from South America and thence to India. We follow the story of this substance which helped to reinvent the wheel and the pneumatic tyre pump up the wheels of industry.
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2011-02-27 Royal What's missing from the political agenda? You might say most things, or nothing, but the Queen's Birthday weekend might be the right time to remember that, yes, we do have a monarchy and so do a lot of other people.
Why? Ask Tony Abbott. Yes he's in the Royal Night Air and so is the King of Swaziland the Emperor of Japan – and that fascinating family of TV-watchers we know as the Royles. Come for a Right Royal show and see how the other one half of no per cent get along.
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2011-02-20 Rhythms of Life Tonight we´re surrounded by rhythm. Finding the music in speech, taking the pulse of our every day activities and opening up to the rhythms of life. From the most intimate bodily cycles to the enormous waves of change that transform our world.
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Track: Millions of musicians
Composer: Tony Schwartz
LP titlet: Millions of musicians
LP label: EMI 743 8 57010 2 3
Artist: Tony Schwartz
Track: Sparky´s Magic Piano
Composer: Alan Livingstone
CD title: Sparky´s Magic Piano
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2011-02-13 Elephant and Castles Elephant and Castles is a record label investigating and cultivating a field in between documentary, field recording, unusual sound practices and delicate music. Curator Cédric Anglaret is our sound guide.
Using reality as a raw material, always oscillating between the extremely concrete and the abstract creating imaginary places through a non-pictorial narration, getting close to what could be a cinema of sensations where images are made up by the public's own imagination.
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2011-02-06 Resonate Just by simply twiddling the dial you´re allowing your radio´s tuning circuit to resonate with Radio National´s carrier frequency and thereby extracting all manner of juicy sounds. There are wires, strings, tubes, voices, drums, not to mention the infinite variety of spaces we occupy in our daily lives - and did you know that everything, including you and me has a resonant frequency?
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2011-01-30 Animals Some fine-feathered and four-legged friends get some air time and give us some clues as to what being an animal is all about ... pampered pooches, gambolling gorillas, singing pigs and lions with largess.
The featured rant on Quadrepedism is by Theodore Gottlieb.
The Night Share mix is Hidden Beak Funeral Bird, by Jen Saunders
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2011-01-23 Bones Dancing around in our bones ... playing them, burning them and burying them. Bones are read as clues in crime scenes, in the Bible and in the landscape of Lake Mungo.
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2011-01-16 Spooky Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some people think they have the answers – from Frankenstein to Albert Einstein – Dracula to Arch Obler.
Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors, in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn´t happen now, could it? Then too, there´s Erik von Daniken´s spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2011-01-09 Mud brick A trip to the brickworks and you´d be amazed at the variety. Plus, digging in the mud to try and grasp the shifting terrain that we sometimes call history and later, a classic building re-discovered through a study of the Australian dunny.
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2011-01-02 Papua New Guinea To begin the new year we return to our closest neighbour - Papua New Guinea. It's a place synonymous with the Australian campaign in the Second World War but now rather far off in the Australian imagination. We listen to the voices, music and sounds of this incredibly diverse and dramatic country.
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2010-12-26 The biff Go a few rounds and be the better for it. Shape up and take on all comers with archival extracts from the bare-knuckle days and hear the commentators' and trainers' side of the story. A no-holds-barred edition - from punishing amateur fights to the grace and violence of the champion Kostya Tszyu.
The ABC Radio feature The Fight Game, by Sharon Davis, was originally broadcast on Radio Eye on 12 September, 1993
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2010-12-19 Stuffit! Are we eating better? Do we eat too much? Or do we just think watching gourmets on television is enough?
Tony Barrell takes a global tour of eating establishments from Turkey to Japan, Korea and Russia to see if the fad for food culture is hiding something we´d rather not know about.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-12-12 City Nights The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way.
Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project.
The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-12-05 Fidelity Treasures of gramophone history spin through this history of sound recording. Tangles of audio memories are sieved and reconstructed. You´ll hear Tennyson trapped in beeswax from 1890, Edison on a roll, Sarah Bernhardt acting Phédre, and a rider from the charge of the Light Brigade. Catch the scraping and buzzing of the needle - remembering the surface in The Night Air.
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2010-11-28 Die Wende - the turning point As the finale of Radio National´s Berlin Waves festival The Night Air tunes into The Turning Point or Die Wende in German.
In the mix of highlights from the festival and the archives will be ideas of reunification and change as explored by major European artists in sound, music, poetry and performance. Expect surprises as the art and ideas of Kafka, Stockhausen and Rilke engage in a lively sonic debate.
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2010-11-21 Bike Love This evening we´re exploring the wide ranging, ever spinning and sometimes deeply emotional relationship that can develop between riders and their bicycles.
In the build up to Melbourne's Bikefest, we'll hear tales of bike couriers, cycling activists, psychogeographers and joyful chain-turners.
We also take a ride into the dark and curious side of cycling: accidents, road rage, cycling sub-culture clashes and velo-porn.
So prepare for a two wheeled wonderland edition of Bike Love.
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2010-11-14 Paranoid Parade In the first part of this evening´s show we take a nervous shuffle down a Cold War cul de sac.
In the second part Sydney's confused soca punks, Gallucci deliver a peculiar mixtape exploring The Lighter Side of Paranoia. From watching the waistline, to adolescent lady worries, all angles of this humorous and primarily male twinge are opened up for pot shots and low brow hubbub.
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2010-11-07 Testify Feel the power of the word! From the pulpit, from the gutter and from the fiery depths of hell you´ll hear the hyperbolic music that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. We´re testifying!
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2010-10-31 Undergrowth A shuffling beneath your feet and a rustling of leaves as small beasts scurry about. On the forest floor there´s a myriad of wondrous small worlds - mushrooms, tussocks, twines and whipsticks. Tune in, go under.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-10-24 Radio rethink Net radio, podcasting, low-power FM - new ways of making, transmitting and receiving radio are booming. But the media revolution isn't all about new tools; it´s about radio as exchange. It´s about people power and new ways of thinking through old problems. Take a tour of tomorrow's radio with the radio artists as guides: do-it-yourself geeks and activists, IT entrepreneurs, policy directors, and poets who are rewriting the rules. We'll catch up with the recent Particle/Wave conference i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-10-17 Body music + Soul That tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great symphony made on, around and within the body. And once the excitement of your own musical self settles a bit you can begin your quest for true Zen, have your soul saved by gods (of many persuasions) and find that special soul mate. You´ll witness the divine funkiness of the godfather of soul James Brown, take in the gospel from the Reve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-10-10 Secrets and lies From a very young age we're taught to keep secrets. Families are full of them - the sister you never knew about, the money that went astray - but secrets are also a part of public life too, such as dog-whistling speeches and the activities of spy agencies; even gay politicians who, by tacit agreement, are not exposed by journalists.
Political spin and advertising is also a kind of socially sanctioned lie. Half-truths whispered, exposed and discussed in this secretive edition.
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2010-10-03 Refuge Even in a our new political paradigm `the refugee issue´ looks set to be a favourite football for politicians and the commentators for some time yet. This evening we'll take in some of the voices in the debate in Australia as well as listen to the actual stories of people who risk everything to find safe haven.
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2010-09-26 Crafty From the macramé basket to the crochet doily to the ceramic thingummyjigs holder, crafters are always on the go and no textile or substance escapes them. So long as there´s a click of knitting needles or snip of scissors then everyone´s happy and you put your wool around and pulling the stitch through. This evening we run up a frock and gather our yarns for a craftilacious edition.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2010-09-19 Quacks and Age Part 1: Quacks
This evening we check pulses, monitor vital signs and open up perceptions of health and medicine to see what sorts of snake-oil and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician.
Part 2: Age
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2010-09-12 Metamorphosis The Body Farm is the name of a research facility at the University of Tennessee - a workbench of forensic science, monitoring processes as nature does its work - and tonight we visit this institution but we´re also inside a large building - a corporate corpse - where a mysterious death has minions and managers speculating on the anatomy of an organisation. Along the way we duck in to the rabbit holes of Alice in Wonderland and sample the revitalising powers of the great outdoors.
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