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The Night Air is an ever-changing radio composition of music, sounds, ideas and stories. Primary Format : Arts Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Night Air Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Night Air Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Night Air 2009-11-22 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. For music details please 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-11-15 Dust If you´re going to collect anything you can be sure it´ll collect dust. In our show dedicated to the humble mote we get down the back of a sofa, sing along with Dustys – Slim and Springfield – dish the dirt on ochre and asbestos and take a trip with John Steinbeck. For music details please 'show transcript' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-11-08 Nine A lot of big things happened in years ending with the number 9 - like the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan (1979); the moon landing and bombing of Cambodia (1969); Luna 3 orbits the moon (1959); communist victory in China and first Soviet A-bomb (1949); the outbreak of WW2(1939). Join veteran producers, Tony Barrell and Tom Morton on a nonagonal adventure. For music details, please click on 'show transcript' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-11-01 Body music Your hip bone´s connected to your thigh bone – true – and even if it´s not the word of the Lord you hear, perhaps it´s an instinctive sense of rhythm. 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 concert of music made on, around and within the body. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-10-25 Love crazy The crazy pursuit of love with the help of a taxi driver-cum-matchmaker, together with love that kills – modern romance with the experience of dating USA-style, relationship experts and common-or-garden assignations – everyone keen for action without losing sight of proper etiquette. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-10-18 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 2009-10-11 ECC and the full Bob Copyright-fighters the Evolution Control Committee mash up pop music and free-wheelin' Bob Dylan wanders through his many incarnations ... Part 1: The Evolution Control Committee under the leadership of Trademark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) has been challenging copyright laws since 1986, risking millions in copyright violation fines for what the ECC calls `music´. The ECC is credited with the creation of the Mash Up or Bastard Pop genre of blended pop songs, a style popular with young listene ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-10-04 Joy, terror and calling the unknown Taste the joy and terror as we chomp into some very Dark chocolate – mixing Willy Wonka with child slavery. Then we ask: was Alexander Graham Bell trying to contact the dead when he invented the telephone? It may now be less than mystical but the 'phone still has us spellbound — conversations with unseen callers seem preferable to face-to-face communication and a phone can call up wars and assassins, convey the thrill of new arrivals and mediate the pain of love. It's the powe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-27 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. Image by Gil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-20 The last laugh We´ll be chortling, giggling and guffawing in this side-splitting edition where we tickle your funny bone with some of the oldest jokes still in existence — then join a laughter club to share its healing powers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-13 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 2009-09-06 My Cocaine Museum and Moses Iten Part One We´re in the jungles of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia with the Australian-born anthropologist and social critic Michael Taussig who has had a long interest in the working lives and beliefs of poor communities in South America, particularly Colombia. In this piece adapted from his 2004 book, Taussig describes the effects of the `transgressive substances´ of cocaine and gold, commodities much desired by the west which have shaped Colombia´s history and its precarious pre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-08-30 Shakin' From the hip-swivlin´ Elvis to the undulating belly dance — not to mention the milk shake experience of childhood memories in 1950s Sydney, especially when those `milk-bar´ memories are combined with the Greek island of Kythera. The world turns, turns and we get a little shook up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-08-16 Fluent We dip into things hydrous – slipping into ponds and getting up river in a canoe, before negotiating the Amazon and eavesdropping on the navigation centre of the Brisbane river – later we´ll dry off and head to more arid locales with tales of wet versus dry and a walk with an Indigenous guide into the Simpson Desert. Please click Transcript for music details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-08-02 Pest Like weeds—flowers in the wrong place—unwanted creatures infest our burgeoning suburbia and beyond. Some of them brought here with good intentions, others we wish had never been created—rabbits, foxes, rats, brumbies, cane toads, lantana or, indigenous creatures we can't abide like termites. The 'introduced species' is but a euphemism for feral vermin. And what about us? Are we not pests too? Comparing the charm of dear old Ratty and Mole to the living horror of sharing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-07-26 Visual In a world of the ocular and photopic we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined. With eyes open it looks as though our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. But, some researchers believe that we don't see the world as it actually is at all, rather it could all be a grand illusion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-07-12 Shrooms with a view + bright objects Would you rather snuff a truffle or pull up a toadstool? Either way, be sure to join us on this evening´s great fungi hunt when we find out what sounds those mycetes make. From psilocybin to shitake, it´s a magical journey with some versatile spores that could change the world like a mushroom cloud. Just remember, never eat a mushroom unless you can name it. And in Part 2 - a pick´n´mix bag of bright objects and a shaggy dog story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-07-19 Deep How low can you go? And will it be all the way? This evening we're in deep, trying to fathom mind under matter and over the horizon. For your listening pleasure we plummet headfirst into the nether reaches of reality and journey beyond the depths of space, sleep and sea - and that's just for starters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-28 Capital This week we´re examining the rise and fall of capital; we're balancing books, laying waste to financial institutions and punishing capital crimes. Its murder, greed and the end of civilisation as we know it. So come on out Reaganites, let´s party like it´s 1984 in a show that´s light as a feather, heavy as a banker. In Part 2, we wander through aural intricacies of the centre of global finance, the sprawling labyrinth that is London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-21 Animals Our fine-feathered and four-legged friends scamper up to the microphone to give us the inside info on 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website