Tags: visual art, performing arts, music, society & culture
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Recorded live in an off-Broadway theatre in New York City, Darian Dauchan’s award-winning work chronicles the period of Barack Obama’s candidacy, to presidency, to the present day – at the time of his second inauguration. The piece is a rhetorical conversation between African-American performance poet, Darian Dauchan, and Barack Obama, …
These days it's like products, and even humans have their own 'refresh' buttons.
Resonate with all manner of juicy sounds.
Can we gain an insight into people living in remote parts of this country by aiming a shot-gun microphone and collecting audio snapshots?
In Jamaica to celebrate 50 years of independence from British rule. There are problems with corruption and crime but Jamaica has the fastest runners on earth, untold cultural riches and the indomitable will to survive.
Journey through contested lands - In/visible Palestine and Suleiman's Europe.
A Night Air/Pool collaboration.
getting hot and languid as we tour the tropics.
Reticent to talk her out of existence - many believe the Mermaid lives, blanketed beneath the sea.
FIFO to the mines is today’s version of the Gold Rush. Somehow the crazed mood seems to parallel European 'Spaghetti' Westerns from the late 1960s. Add nuggets mined from Radio National archives and we unearth the myths of this great land of ours.
A rustling of leaves as small beasts scurry about.
A Night Air/Pool collaboration.
eels, noodles and worms
The bell tolls for thee! This edition of the Night Air climbs the belfry to ring the victory bells; we investigate this ancient way of communicating, celebrating, worshipping, keeping time and making music. The Night Air’s resident campanologist James Vyver rings in the audio changes. And we unveil a combination …
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.
A program that takes the creative collaborative energy from ABC Pool contributors and weaves it into an audio adventure.
Come bush, into rural Australia, with a cast of characters from down the pub, out in the shearing shed, around the paddock and over at the school yard.
German sonic prophets