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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 2009-07-19 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 2009-07-12 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 2009-06-28 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 2009-06-14 Food Mmm ... bring an appetite to this menu-driven edition ... an insane craving for more cake, pineapples, chilli and soup. We even visit the 40th Anniversary Dinner of the Leeton Gourmet Club. Any new recipes? Absolutely! For music details please click on Show transcript. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-07 Mobile Journeys As artist Jodi Rose contemplates content on the move, we journey into the mobile future with a phone book's worth of new media artists, community groups and hip-hoppers who each teach us to change the way we think. For music details please click on show transcript. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-31 Pulp + Pulp fiction + Reggie Watts Part 1: We consider the `death´ of paper in our increasingly virtual existence. Pulp focuses on the loss of tactility, words and language as humans become ever more digital. It could be seen as a bit of a mourning song - a death-rattle for die-hard stationery fans who remember reading words on a page and feeling like they could eat them. The Night Share Pool mix is Into the Dark remix by Luke Troyner Part 2: We continue a journey into pulp as we follow the Sydney lair and pulp anti-h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-24 Rockin' No stone´s left unturned in this geophonic edition of The Night Air. Explore the archaeological sounds of the earth, learn about the diamond trade, stalagmites and classic sculpture - all upon a founation of inscription and rockin' music. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-17 Feral Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-10 Whales 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-03 Robot Love After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-05 The Library Run your finger along the spines and settle in for a trip down the Dewey decimals. We´re taking an audio tour of public archives, private collections, borrowed ideas and forgotten footnotes; we look at the effects of censorship and the history of book burning - with the help of Ray Bradbury´s Fahrenheit 451 - and Walter Benjamin provides an insight into the mentality of the private collector in an adaptation of his essay, Unpacking My Library. It´s access all areas for late-night browse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-29 Suggestive Tonight we´re getting a little suggestive—not too much, but our slip's showing a touch because, as the father of modern advertising—Goebbels—knew all too well, a nudge really is as a good as a wink. There's graffiti, Hitler and ventriloquists, as well as suggestive tunes ... For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-08 Tower In the skyscraper just how high can you go? This evening we climb high-rises modern and medieval. Come with us as we go up a vertiginous stack of heady ideas and lofty soundscapes until we reach the very top. Hold your spinning head as you gaze out at the wide world from towers of power ... and fun. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-15 Towns All around the houses, up the street and down the road: including a chat with urban planners and with those who live at `ground level´, we visit Hull, the north-east of England seaport that once voted itself first place in The Book of Craptowns. Rupert Murdoch's News of the World called it 'Hell on Earth', but Australian poet Peter Porter has described it as `the most poetic city in England´. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-12-21 Reviewing Scope: The Lost Episodes Part 1 + Kraig Grady Due to public demand and his own unquenchable desire to talk about the neglected history of ABC radio, former Drama and Features producer (now successful businessman with several companies in the Gulf states), Barry Anthony has returned to The Night Air with a new series exploring some of the more obscure moments of the program for which he once worked as a 'junior trouser'—the legendary magazine show of the 50s, 60s and 70s, Scope. Scope was a hardy example of creative programming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-12-14 Dance/Cumbia Tonight we´re skipping, steppin´and slappin´ - serving up a big leg salad - first with tango and moving on to cumbia - which developed from a folk dance and is said to either represent the movements of shackled slaves or the courtship rituals of African men and indigenous women. It has gone on to become one of Colombia's most distinctive national musics and conquered the world with new electronic versions of the style popping up everywhere from Buenos Aires to Melbourne. Get in step w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-12-07 Disco/Norman Whitfield It´s that time of the year. Down tools, put your glad rags on and dance like your bottom is on fire. The Night Air warms to the Dionysian pleasures of a disco party and pays tribute to one of the creators of the style: the late Norman Whitfield who wrote tunes like `Papa Was a Rolling Stone´, `I Heard It Through the Grapevine´ and the theme from the film `Carwash´. It´s easy - shake what ya Mama gave ya. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-05-18 Museum Sound artist, musician and composer Robert Iolini is the guest curator for a sonic exhibition exploring the changing roles in that storehouse of knowledge and halfway-house for art: the museum. What is a museum? Who decides what gets in there? How does art get into a museum? We roam through a diverse collection and (re)arrange the exhibits. music details: Track: Fido's Museum Trip Composer: Conway CD title: Filbert the Dinosaur & Fossil Rock CD label: ABC 842 323-2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-05-11 Jungle Is it just us or is it getting hot in here? And where are all those snake vines coming from? In a trip deep into the jungle, trekking along some partly-worn paths whilst creating a few inroads of our own, we push aside the creepers and carnivorous plants to look what might be lurking in the undergrowth and swinging overhead. John Hughes `On Language´ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2008/2226392.htm All In The Mind: Your Inner Ape http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/sto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-13 Preach Settle back friends into your listening pews to hear the Word as The Night Air brings you the good news and friends the word is Preach. Yes, we´re talking sermons - from the Sermon on the Mount to the disgraced TV evangelists - the Reverends Haggard and Swaggart. Preachers have evolved to be many things: powerful deliverers of the Word and phenomenal makers of money - with a thousand roles in between. As the Reverend Bill Crews says: `You have to be a mixture - from leader to poet - you w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-23 Windy Blowing away hot air - this is an episode of TNA which combines exploration and exhalation. We do our best to get to grips with the actual properties of the air around us. We sail on a summers breeze, up into a rising thermal, through the weathering effects of wind and water and turn up in an atmospheric event which starts out as a willy willy and ends up a roaring vortex. Also, there's a survey of the wind which makes music, Aeolian sounds which fill the Hollow Mansions of the Upper Air. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-16 Fluent In this episode of The Night Air 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. Track: Cry Me A River Artist: Cliff Adams Singers Composer: Arthur Hamilson CD title: Say It With Music CD label: BBC724349878723 Dur: 0´ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-09 I Can´t Go On In a program dedicated to some very personal stories about grief and hope, looming death and persistent memory we hear extracts from several features, including one on poet John Giorno whose life and work challenge many concepts of love with exuberance and compassion; and Jarman´s Garden, an audio portrait of the final home of film-maker Derek Jarman, made in the bleak expanse of shingle facing the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. There are also extracts from the Triple J feature, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-24 Orpheus + Outré Nationalism It is 400 years since the premiere of the world's first acknowledged opera: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC invited compositions in the form of an original 4-minute work for radio, which responded to both the Orpheus myth and to the notion of 'opera'. John Jacobs and ABC Classic FM´s Stephen Adams chat about these responses and play a selection of their favourite entries. Later in the show we take to the hills and go drilling for black gold in the op shops of Dandenong with Jim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-10 Loco Trains are romantic and exciting - and they can be spooky. The Night Air takes the iron horse to the end of the line in the company of a few familiar faces - including Tim Fischer (who's been on both Ghans) - and some rather suspicious and maybe crazy strangers. We answer some big questions - where does the Trans-Siberian railway really start and what was Superman's first adventure? While we never run right off the rails, we are going just a little loco. music details: Track: Conclusion of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-03 Time Time... Perforated perceptions of the past? The inconceivable potential of the future? The impossibility of grasping the moment? Sure, all of the above. But what is time to us? It shapes us - by turning up ripe, rotten or premature. We will time to turn back, speed up or stop. We fantasise about a world where time has no power. Yet the clock ticks on, with or without you.... A show made in collaboration with producer, Kyla Brettle and students from RMIT University in Melbourne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-20 Summer #5 : Reviewing Scope+ Do or D.I.Y. Described as `one of the ABC´s small but very bright diamonds´, Scope was also one of the longest-lived and not-infrequently-reviled shows on ABC Radio. It kicked off in April 1958 and ran until early 1976, mostly under the guidance of `frequently-dishevelled, wild-eyed´ producer, Donald Ingram-Smith. A magazine show devoted to exploring a new theme each week, Scope included opinion pieces and interviews, and employed a sometimes-satirical tone. One of ABC Talk´s junior producers in the ea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-13 Summer #4: Reviewing Scope + Do or D.I.Y. Described as `one of the ABC´s small but very bright diamonds´, Scope was also one of the longest-lived and not-infrequently-reviled shows on ABC Radio. It kicked off in April 1958 and ran until early 1976, mostly under the guidance of `frequently-dishevelled, wild-eyed´ producer, Donald Ingram-Smith. A magazine show devoted to exploring a new theme each week, Scope included opinion pieces and interviews, and employed a sometimes-satirical tone. One of ABC Talk´s junior producers in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007-12-30 Summer #2: Reviewing Scope + Do or D.I.Y. To round out the year the Night Air offers you a reminder of the year that´s been - the year being 1960. One-time ABC Talks department producer, Barry Anthony presents the second in our summer series, Reviewing Scope, recalling the long ago days of 2FC´s favourite magazine programme, Scope. Mr Anthony describes the show as a `meta retrospective´ and it´s packed with diverse items from an elephant in an Italian saltscape to a Cape Malay Choir in Capetown and features jokes from HRH Prince ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007-12-23 Summer #1: Reviewing Scope + Do or D.I.Y. Described as `one of the ABC´s small but very bright diamonds´, Scope was also one of the longest-lived and often-reviled shows on ABC Radio. It kicked off in April 1958 and ran until early 1976, mostly under the guidance of `frequently-dishevelled, wild-eyed´ producer, Donald Ingram-Smith. A magazine show devoted to exploring a new theme each week, Scope included opinion pieces and interviews, and employed a sometimes-satirical tone. One of ABC Talk´s junior producers in the early 60s wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website