Rather enjoyable, this late-night audio dérive across Hong Kong. Reminds me a little of the collaboration between Jeff Noon and David Toop a while back, in its combination of found sounds and narrative, yet also includes oblique fragments of interview. So it hovers somewhere between a documentary and an impressionistic collage. Also, apparently part of some wider narrative piece, involving videos to be remixed. Intriguing.
Another episode of The Night Air blows into town, with a breezy little two-parter. The first part is collage-based, with some lovely tunes, but the second part is something else again, featuring some quite extraordinary recordings from Cyclone Tracy that hit Australia at Christmas 1974, devastating the city of Darwin. The sound is quite fearsome. Then the a deadly silence, punctuated by reports of the surreal visions that follow such events. Then the faintly comical attempts to reassure the “general populace” by broadcasting English-sounding types over ABC radio. That may not have helped as much as they hoped. You’ll also wonder what a ‘willy willy’ is.
A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio, or maybe it won’t.
Your hosts on this not very wild ride are Steve Bowbrick, Russell Davies, Dan Hill, Bobbie Johnson, Roo Reynolds and James Bridle. Drop us a line with your thoughts, unless you wish to complain about continuity announcers and their accents.
You might also enjoy the square-eyed sister site, Watchification.
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