The Night Air - Program podcast
By ABC Radio National
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Podcast Description
The Night Air: listening for pleasure; an audio adventure in ideas, sounds and music remixed around a theme. It's a listening experience animated by dub versions of ABC Radio National's distinctive programming. Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listener's imagination build a new story. It's a space to find the music in speech and the poetry in ideas, a show that invites you to take time to unravel the usual media tangle.
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Egypt | From the revolutionary protests in Tahrir Square to the ancient temples of Abu Simbel come on a tour through Cairo’s chaotic traffic back into antiquity. | 6/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict | The Night Air meets the beast that allegedly no story can do without - conflict. While we're riding into the battle we also hear that far off voice that says, 'none of this is necessary...defuse, resolve, live'. It's a thoroughly confl | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the Arkestra came to town | Sun Ra's Arkestra brought news of Saturn to Melbourne. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning to be dead | We can never actually know death... we can only imagine. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Activate | Putting the demo back into democracy | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Psyched in | waking up on the ceiling | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vinyl Retentive | 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. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shopping | Relax and listen to that lovely supermarket muzak. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brazil | Carmen Miranda, futebol and part-myth | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tropical | The Night Air gets hot and languid as we tour the tropics. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tread | The Little Desert and the moon | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slow | We consider the seductiveness of slow. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Displaced | Squatters, buskers, refugees and other eternal wanderers. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dark Pool stories | Audio stories of darkness as found on ABC Pool. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Voodoo | 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 | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tribute to John Blades | John Blades was a tireless champion of 'marginal' culture. We pay tribute to the radio producer, disability advocate and tape loop artist. | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radio World | To celebrate UNESCO’s World Radio Day the Night Air gets ethereal and tunes into the spectres of the spectrum. | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Really Rare | 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. | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Identities | The Night Air explores Identities - Indigenous and otherwise. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vectors | 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. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vocal Chords | In this Night Air we open the voice box to strum the many chords of the voice. | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paranoid Parade | In the first part of this evening's show we take a nervous shuffle down a Cold War cul de sac. | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unforgettable | 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 huma | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Soul and Body | 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. | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revolving | 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. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Birthday wishes | It's time to celebrate! | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forest | In this evening's Night Air we're seeing the forest and the trees! | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Graffix | It's about having a quick doodle, chatting with the inventor of Bugs Bunny and the inventor of Ren and Stimpy. | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost Australia+Ship Ahoy! | Musician and producer Kevin Purdy trawls the dusty archives to find ways of reanimating nagging memories of Australian social rituals now consigned to history. | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sombra Verde and Taman Negara | 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. | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Time | Time ... perforated perceptions of the past? | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 31 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
The trippiest show out there
This was the first show I ever subscribed to. I keep coming back now and again. The show kind of defies description. Part sound experiment, part radio theater, part documentary, when it is good, it is incredibly compelling. When it is bad, it can be tedious. But good or bad, there is nothing like it out there. A totally unique show.
Show above & beyond anything I've eve heard
I just recently discovered a whole new range of Austrilian radio programs and I am so glad I've done that. This show is the best. Refreshing, interesting, nihilistic, artistic without being ironic. Great show. Why do Australians have so much better radio programs than what we have here in U.S.?
Terrific!
This unknown show is so hip, so compelling you will fall in love with it after a single listen. Highly recommended.
- Free
- Category: Music
- Language: English
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