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30 July 2003
Hitting the Big Time in the Australian Rock Scene
"4 cents an hour if your lucky". The overseas success of Australian bands such as The Vines and The Avalanches has led to a renewed interest in homegrown acts. Many new bands have been signed and the local industry seems to be surging. Scratch the surface however, and another story is revealed.
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23 June 2003
Classification, or censorship?
When Tasmanian band Intense Hammer Rage sent their latest album to be manufactured by a record label in the US, members of the outfit had no idea that they’d be opening a can of censorship worms when they imported the finished product back into Australia.
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5 June 2003
Boo Chapple - Self Portrait
Boo Chapple talks of her life as a sound artist and her dissatisfaction with the position of 'Art' in the Australian cultural food chain
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5 June 2003
Jason Davidson - Self Portrait
Contemporary artist Jason Davidson tells of his work integrating Aboriginal drawings with computer generated graphic designs.
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5 June 2003
Sound Like Techno
This four part multimedia doco looks at the birth of techno music, it's innovators and influences.
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10 March 2003
Sounds of the Planet - Womadelaide 2003
Musicians and lovers of music from around the world gathered over the weekend to share their passion at WOMADelaide 2003.Now in its tenth year, the world music festival, held below the leafy canopy of Adelaide's Botanic Park, is easily the best music event of its kind in Australia.
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5 March 2003
Misfits and Malcontents
As old punks celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Sex Pistols and London punk by buying glossy coffee table books and other expensive mementos, one Melbourne filmmaker has documented Australia’s own punk history.
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13 February 2003
Misfits and Malcontents - The Birth of Australian Punk
Lucinda Strahan investigates the underground music scene in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth in the late 70s and the spawning of Australia's own punk movement.
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24 October 2002
Notes for the Future of Australian Music
The Space investigates the work of Multicultural Arts Victoria, and stops briefly to wonder, what is the story of Australian music?
Listen to the stories and songs of Fouad Harraka, Javier Fredes, Randy Borquaye and Natalia Manne, and discover how music travels across borders and oceans.
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24 October 2002
Notes for the Future of Australian Music : Fouad Harraka
Fouad Harraka is a monastry and conservatoire educated musician from Beirut. He is an expert 'ud and violin player and a master of choral music in the Byzantine, Greek Orthodox and Melkite traditions.
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24 October 2002
Notes for the Future of Australian Music: Javier Fredes
Javier Fredes is widely regarded as one of the best Latin percussion players in Australia. A professional musician since his early teens his story of the exhilarations and the frustrations of the musical life will resonate with many musicians.
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24 October 2002
Notes for the Future of Australian Music: Natalia Mann
Natalia is a classically trained harpist who was playing with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the age of seventeen, but who at nineteen had tired of it. She abandoned her harp and left town, taking a waiting job at a jazz bar.
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24 October 2002
Notes for the Future of Australian Music: Randy Borquaye
Randy Borquaye is the leader of the reggae group Jah Roots. He lives in a ramshackle weatherboard house stuffed with musical instruments in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. He's a fine Kora player and an energetic live performer. But like many migrant musicians, since he arrived here from Ghana, his life has not been an easy one.
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19 October 2002
Earclips: Cloud
Simon Aveling and Robbie Buck explore what it means to live 'midst the synchronous spheres of land, air and sea near Sydney in Australia on Earth.
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18 October 2002
Earclips: Steel Sea
Musician Mark Holder-Keeping explores the ambiguity of Wollongong’s cultural identity as a beautiful coastline and industrial haven by morphing the sounds of the steelworks with the ocean. It is difficult to pinpoint when the sound of the sea finishes and the steel works begins. Improvising over these sounds are the shakuhachi, fire alarm bells & saxophone.
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17 October 2002
Earclips: Cunningham's Gap
Sound artist Andrew Kettle explores his love for the landscape and its spirit and how it moulded his childhood in Uragupul territory. The language of the Uragupal people is thought of as a wind, its tones and rhythms are part of the landscapes themselves...
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16 October 2002
Earclips: The Keeper of Records Lost
Sonic artist, Garrie Stewart, randomly combines an amalgamation of pre-recorded and sampled snippets of past events with spoken word and synthesized/sampled piano which together act to shape his present perception and understanding of his environment - 'my world' exists because of the past and 'this time' is merely a cross section of that timeline.
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15 October 2002
Earclips: Returning v2.1
Sound artist Minus Eleven Error creates a digital collage, manipulating recorded and found sounds to explore the notion of machines generating random elements and making decisions, and how the limitations of machines can influence the aesthetic of the work.
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14 October 2002
Earclips: Backburn
Two artists working on the volunteer crews during the NSW bushfires of
January 2002 were inspired to interview their fellow Wollondilly Brigade
members. Boyd and Alison Cloustan collaborate to weave the diverse voices of their brigade together in a metaphorical soundscape of the backburning process.
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13 October 2002
Earclips: Water Songs
Freelance composer, music technologist, improviser, workshop facilitator and arts event manager, Michael Whiticker takes us on a watery journey. Sounds of the water of Townsville, North Queensland, are accompanied by a virtual flotilla of popular songs, all of which celebrate water in one form or another, as sung by the La Luna Children’s Theatre Group and tutors.
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12 October 2002
Earclips: In Pekina We Bark
Freelance sound designer and composer, Damian Castaldi investigates the soundscape of the harsh environment of Pekina in the wheat belt near the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
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11 October 2002
Earclips: Dodginomics
Dodginomics is a subtle yet poignant reality of the world this time. It sees Cameron Goold tackle the very nature of the ever present society that we live in and are now inundated with since the 9/11. This sonic portrait has a barrage of beats intertwined with the haunting shrill of a gumleaf, and a to-the-point mc'd twist on the world in its present climate.
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10 October 2002
Earclips: Kim's Song
Kim’s song is based on a recording of a Vietnamese children's song recorded by renowned sound artist, composer, perfomer, scultpor and author, Ros Bandt. Kim, a young Australian Vietnamese has just started school in Springvale, Victoria and now prefers to sing Australian songs rather than the Vietnamese songs she learned at home from her parents. This piece examines how her identity and language will be shaped by how she interprets being born of migrant parents in Australia.
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9 October 2002
Earclips: Comuterescape
Jazz artist Dave Macrae explores the soundscape of the tunnel underneath Central Station, on his weekly public transport journey to the city of Sydney. On this 3 minute adventure, buskers of all kinds can be heard as masses of people take their everyday path through the tunnel.
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8 October 2002
Earclips: Foreign Policy
Performance artist and musician, Leon Ewing, combines elements of hip-hop, funk and metal noise pollution, with recordings of Tibetan bells, and kids singing and playing to create a piece exploring the issue of the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia.
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7 October 2002
Earclips: Alone at Undara
A mix of recordings made at Undara volcano, which is one of 160 volcanoes in the McBride Volcanic Province. Jim Denley aims to capture the aloneness and immediacy of a single figure in this vast, elemental landscape to reaffirm the important relationship all of us have to the land in our world at this time.
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6 October 2002
Earclips: Townsville Snapshot
Using the voice of North Queensland based artist and educator Sue Albanus, David Sudmalis explores in sound and text a number of social issues relevant to regional Australia: relative isolation, the importance of community groups in assisting in the maintenance of identity and self-worth, and the contribution of individuals who, through their resilient and pro-active disposition are able to make a difference to the community in which they live.
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5 October 2002
Earclips: Flowing Pieces
Flowing Pieces uses an abstract poem to make a short journey through the world of language. Mastaneh Nazaria explores linguistic perception in relation to the flow of time during which the poem is read in four distinct and unique languages. Each of the languages represents various phases of her life. Flowing Pieces is a narrative collage that treats spoken word both as language and sound object.
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4 October 2002
Earclips: Sun, Surf and Sex
Composer Colin Bright, an avid surfer and beach goer, explores the beach aesthetic - freedom of spirit and a connectedness with nature's beauty and power - and what the beach represents to sun-loving Australians.
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3 October 2002
Earclips: on being.data/link
Boo Chapple's 'onbeing.data/link' deals with the way in which we, as human agents, are encoded in or interfaced with information processing systems. It illustrates how these systems perform cultural and linguistic censorship and highlights the dilemma faced as we move into an era where voice recognition interfaces are the norm.
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2 October 2002
Earclips: Turn of the Century Tide
Lulu Ong, a composer of audio-visual and electronic music, takes us on an aural contemplation focusing on the pre and post millenial New Years spent away from the metropolitan city where she lives. In the absence of the energy that big cities amass during occasions such as these, this audio essay seeks to express the divergent energy radiated by a small quiet town.
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1 October 2002
Earclips: Summer Solstice
“Summer Solstice” by composer Colin Black is an electro-acoustic impressionistic experience of summer in Australia. An algorithmic procession of voice samples condensed through filters and effect units underpins the composition, echoing sun spots and the revolution of daylight. Except for one melodic keyboard line, “Summer Solstice” is composed entirely from voice samples.
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24 March 2002
Talking Drum
Accompanied by Ray Pereira, one of Australia's leading percussionists, and Ghanaian drummer, Nii Tettey Tetteh, the ABC TV documentary Talking Drum takes us to a Ghana far beyond the tourist pamphlet.
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22 March 2002
A completely new instrument: The Australian Bell Project
Dee Hannan reports on a unique sound sculpture in Melbourne named the ‘Federation Bells’. This soundscape is triggered by a super computer to play compositions constructed in MIDI. "The bells create a strange landscape, perched upside down on metal pillars, and come in all manner of shapes and sizes, each resonating with different pitches, textures and dynamics." (Includes video footage of the project.)
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13 December 2001
King Kapisi & the Rise of Samoan Hip Hop
King Kapisi, the Samoan-born New Zealand-based hip-hop artist visited Australian shores to take part in the Pacific Wave Festival 2001. He spoke to Clement Paligaru from Pacific Beat, explaining that what sets his music apart from American hip-hop is the way it's inspired by Pacific cultures and issues
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11 December 2001
Fanclub
Jesus was the first person to have fans. In fact, he was probably the first pop star. Barry Divola considers the evidence.
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15 November 2001
Dreamers and Dealers: Feature Story
A story of survival in the hard-nosed world of the Australian record business. A
story of independent music and the torturous trip that it must undertake in its
journey from the imagination of the writer to the hands of a fan in a record
store. A story of foolish dreams and the cold reality of the record deal. A
story of elephants and ants.
A special Arts Online report by Gordon Blair.
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8 November 2001
Stringraphy
Triple J's Fenella Kernebone interviewed Kazue Mizushima, the creator of 'Stringraphy' which was a surprise hit with audiences at the Melbourne International Festival, 2001.
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8 November 2001
Stringraphy
Triple J's Fenella Kernebone interviewed Kazue Mizushima, the creator of 'Stringraphy' which was a surprise hit with audiences at the Melbourne International Festival, 2001.
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19 September 2001
Chuck D's Incredible Journey
Chuck D, from Public Enemy, spoke to Triple J's Francis Leach about his musical journey from disco to hip hop...
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19 September 2001
Digital Liaisons: Marcia Hines
The Space ABC Arts Online got up close and personal with Marcia Hines, singer.
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19 September 2001
In the Making: I Walked Into My Mother - Moya Henderson
'Bringing them home', the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island Children from Their Families, uncovered a litany of poignant stories expressing grief and loss. Acclaimed Australian composer Moya Henderson reveals the process and the poignant story at the heart of her new radiophonic composition.
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19 September 2001
In the Making: Working with Arsenije
Robyn Ravlich, Executive Producer of the ABC's Acoustic Art Unit writes about working with sound composer Arsenije Jovanovic, who in October visited the ABC from his studio looking over the Adriatic.
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19 September 2001
Silverchair: The Way They Were
Triple J's Richard Kingsmill, catches up with Daniel Johns of silverchair and visits the 'Neon Ballroom', the Newcastle band's 3rd album which is already receiving international critical acclaim...
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19 September 2001
Taming the Rave
Background Briefing's Chris Bullock delves into the Australian rave scene and lifts the fog on some of the myths surrounding the culture which some adults will never be able to smile about.
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29 August 2001
Dreamers and Dealers
A story of survival in the hard-nosed world of the Australian record business: a story of independent music and the torturous trip that it must undertake in its journey from the imagination of the writer to the hands of a fan in a record store: A special report by Gordy Blair.
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20 August 2001
Australia Ad Lib
Man plays cactus! Roadkill finds a new life! This isn't like anything you've ever experienced before... Australia Ad Lib presents the improvised and ad hoc music of Australian larrikins, outsiders and rebels.
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12 August 2001
Long Way to the Top
Long Way to the Top is an unflinching look at 50 years of Australian rock.
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1 March 2001
10 Days On the Island
Tasmania's first international cultural festival, '10 Days' celebrated the artistic experience of island communities from around the world.
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17 January 2000
Soundcheck
An interactive online exhibition exploring the Australian alternative band scene, featuring the work of photographer Shellie Tonkin.
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20 December 1999
Rocksnaps
"Rock & Pop - The Australian Experience 1956 to 1971". The site includes a gallery of Laurie Richards' photographs as well as oral histories and artist profiles.
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2 July 1999
Quan's Favourite Recipe
You know what they say, behind every good bloke is his mum and good tucker and that's definitely the case when it comes to Quan from the Australian band, Regurgitator. Quan's mum, Lien Yeomans owns and is the chef of the Green Papaya Restaurant in East Brisbane. Triple J's Justine Kelly visited Lien to find out what is Quan's favourite meal.
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1 June 1999
Ani Difranco
Richard Kingsmill catches up with singer-songwriter Ani Difranco.
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20 December 1998
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly, one of the most universally acclaimed singer-songwriters working today, spoke with Radio National's Andrew Ford.
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