The Night Air Podcast
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The Night Air is an ever-changing half hour composition of music, sounds, ideas and stories. A mix of all the best uses of radio in one time-slot.
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Podcast Website: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair/
When the Arkestra came to town
Author: Brent Clough Sun, May 20, 2012
 In June 2011 The Sun Ra Arkestra rolled into Melborne for the that city's International Jazz Festival.Â
It was the first time the musical emissaries of the space jazz pioneer, Sun Ra had reached this part of the planet.
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Learning to be dead
Author: Brent Clough Sun, May 13, 2012
We can never actually know death... we can only imagine.
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Activate
Author: Brent Clough Sun, May 06, 2012
Putting the demo back into democracy. As traditional political options wither we re-consider the art of activism and meet some of those tough visionaries, feral philosophers and rowdy ratbags who despite all odds hold a passion for change.
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Psyched in
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Apr 29, 2012
Have you ever stopped to think that you don't really know how you got where you are now?
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Vinyl Retentive
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Apr 22, 2012
As digital technology continues its rendering of the entire planet into hi-res simulacra there are still hold outs - rebels who insist on the lingering charms of ‘outmoded’ formats - like vinyl records.
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Shopping
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Apr 15, 2012
Shopping has it all - labour exploitation, weird science, ugly packaging - contemporary products reach us with all sorts of strings attached. This evening we present a guide to surviving 21st century shopping without your moral compass spinning too wildly. In fact, just relax and listen to that lovely supermarket muzak. In the golden aisles of The Night Air mall you can hear the sound of violins...
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Brazil
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Apr 08, 2012
It was the French leader Charles de Gaulle who infamously said, ‘Brazil is not a serious country’ - but we take it seriously (and not forgetting to break into a joyful samba from time to time).Â
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Tropical
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Apr 01, 2012
This evening things get hot and languid in The Night Air as James Vyver takes you on a tour of the tropics.
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Tread
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Mar 25, 2012
Once upon a time, stepping into this continent was one of those small steps for man. Especially when The Little Desert got stepped on—you could easily miss it even though it held numerous species of wildlife.Â
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Slow
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Mar 18, 2012
In the furious pace of today’s wired world it’s sometimes necessary to change down a few gears and alter your perceptions of time’s passing. This evening we consider the seductiveness of slow.
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Displaced
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Mar 11, 2012
We’re taking to the street in search of the various ways people are displaced. Squatters, buskers, refugees and other eternal wanderers.
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Dark Pool stories
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Mar 04, 2012
This evening the Night Air is telling audio stories of darkness as found on ABC Pool.
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Voodoo
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Feb 26, 2012
The voodoo you do possesses us all. Moses Iten digs deep into Vodou music and pulls audio fetishes from dark hiding places to conjure up tales of Zombie Makeup and the pin-pricked ragdoll of Voodoo Economics
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Tribute to John Blades
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Feb 19, 2012
John Blades was a tireless champion of 'marginal' culture. We pay tribute to the radio producer, disability advocate and tape loop artist.
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Radio World
Author: Sherre DeLys Sun, Feb 12, 2012
To celebrate UNESCO’s World Radio Day the Night Air gets ethereal and tunes into the spectres of the spectrum.
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Really Rare
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Feb 05, 2012
Extinct, disappearing or just highly elusive, we’re on the trail of the antique and the apocryphal but also an almost mythological beast like the Tasmanian tiger – has it gone or is it just hiding.
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Identities
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Jan 29, 2012
The Night Air explores Identities - Indigenous and otherwise.
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Vectors
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Jan 22, 2012
Following lines in the sand, puzzling about crop circles and looking for the geographical and psychological markers that keep us right on track with magnitude and direction.
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Vocal Chords
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Jan 15, 2012
In this Night Air we open the voice box to strum the many chords of the voice.
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Paranoid Parade
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Jan 08, 2012
In the first part of this evening's show we take a nervous shuffle down a Cold War cul de sac.
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Unforgettable
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Jan 01, 2012
We try to remember what it was like to forget: deja vu and nostalgia, amnesia and mnemonics, implanted memories and oral testimony, we tie a knot in our handkerchief, take a sprig of rosemary and dive deep in the river of oblivion, exploring the twin human virtues of memory and forgetfulness.
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Soul and Body
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Dec 25, 2011
Your soul is singing and 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.
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Revolving
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Dec 18, 2011
In a cyclic mood this evening as we consider reflections and reverberations across a range of media - from the CT scanner, to the sound therapist, to the carousel. We explore the sonic therapeutic potential of Tibetan bowls, we get inside the head of a speaking photo booth and there's a music box with a mind of its own.
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Birthday wishes
Author: Regina Botros Sun, Dec 11, 2011
It's time to celebrate! Whether it's your birthday or a remarkable day in history, in this party edition we're celebrating famous birthdays, speeches, people, places and historical moments in times. So put your glad rags on, turn it up and make a toast to Birthdays and Anniversaries. Hip Hip Hooray!
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Forest
Author: Regina Botros Sun, Dec 04, 2011
In this evening's Night Air we're seeing the forest and the trees!
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Graffix
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Nov 27, 2011
It's about having a quick doodle, chatting with the inventor of Bugs Bunny and the inventor of Ren and Stimpy. There's also a chat with people who scrutinise handwriting to see if someone can be trusted, and there's a bit of manga, a bit of graffiti, a visit to the tattoo parlour and a little bit of boop boop be doop, Betty Boop.
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Lost Australia+Ship Ahoy!
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Nov 20, 2011
Musician and producer Kevin Purdy trawls the dusty archives to find ways of reanimating nagging memories of Australian social rituals now consigned to history.
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Sombra Verde and Taman Negara
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Nov 13, 2011
Brisbane-based field recordist and sound artist Lawrence English takes us deep into the jungles of the Amazon for a poetic account of the environment.
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Time
Author: Brent Clough Sun, Nov 06, 2011
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...
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