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LOOSE ENDS


 (BBC RADIO 4/FALLING TREE PRODUCTIONS, 2024)


 For Short Cuts: In Time, a radio work of intersecting durations (and their
uncertain edges). What do we anticipate – and how do our bodies know it?

I am once again thanking Eleanor McDowall and Alan Hall at Falling Tree
Productions for inviting me to make this, and for their patience. I’m extremely
grateful to Hasib Hourani, Kari Lee McInneny-McRae, Georgia Kartas, Fjorn
Bastos, Cher Tan, Frankie Hanman-Siegersma, Blossom Ah Ket, Mikhael Touma, Beth
Sometimes, Adriene Lilly, Virginia Heal, Nikki Lam, John McLennan and Axel
Kacoutié for conversations, both evidenced here and unheard, that formed or
informed this polyvocal shitshow!

Broadcast Tuesday 3 September 2024, 3pm UT / Wednesday 4 September 2024, 12am
AEST










IS THIS AN IMAGE?


 (BBC RADIO 4/FALLING TREE PRODUCTIONS, 2024)


A short, song-length radio work for Short Cuts: Minis. How does the impulse to
take photographs influence our relationship with time? What happens when we
refuse it?

With thanks to Leah Jing McIntosh, Amy May Stuart and Bridget Heal, who
generously loaned their voices and memories to this work, as well as to Eleanor
McDowall and Alan Hall at Falling Tree Productions for the things I thank them
for every time (and more).

Broadcast Tuesday 4 January 2024, 3pm UT / Wednesday 5 January 2024, 2am AEDT.
View a captioned Instagram preview here










SIGHT READING


 (BBC RADIO 3/FALLING TREE PRODUCTIONS, 2023)


A radio work of 13 minutes, for Between the Ears: Miniatures. In a series of
instructions, speculative directions and personal knowledges – overlapping
images composed of old light – we encounter a choreography of gestures that
house the incalculable forms of our living
 

How are we displaced from what we see? And what kind of unstable authority do we
wield over a world constantly evading our grasp?


Thank you to the 20+ people who directly and indirectly contributed to this
register of speculative directions and personal knowledges, and to Eleanor
McDowall and Alan Hall at Falling Tree Productions for the generous support,
patient encouragement, expansive example and the invitation to make something
for one of my very favourite series.

This piece was shortlisted for the Phonurgia Nova 2024 Prix Art Sonore. You can
read an English transcript here. Otherwise, wear headphones for a treat (the mix
is binaural-ish).

Broadcast Thursday 30 November 2023, 10.45pm UT / Friday 1 December 2023 9.45am
AEDT







~~~~~“…DERELICT IN UNCHARTED SPACE…”


 (CHUNKY MOVE/MELBOURNE FRINGE, 2023)


A sensorily abundant performance and audiodescribed radio season in mid-October
2023. Inspired by Project Communicator – a mid-1970s fan-led initiative to bring
Star Trek to blind audiences through descriptive radio plays

Conceptualised by Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock, and created with Fayen and
Ben, Rebecca Bracewell, Luke D. King, Georgina Kleege, Nelly Kate, Andy Slater,
Lloyd MST, Jon Tjhia, Alex Craig, Anastasia La Fey, Anna Seymour, Sheereen
Perrin, Lorena Zapiain, George Thomas and Sheri Wells-Jensen, in association
with Antony Hamilton, Bryan Phillips, Madeleine Flynn, Charles Gushue and Willa
Piro. Audiodescribed by Vitae Veritas (Nilgün Güven, Rachel Edward, Milly
Cooper), Lorena Zapiain, Zoe Scoglio, Kalinda Vary, Xinyuan (Caesar) Li,
Rosemary Forde, Khalid Warsame, Maddie Flynn, Tim Humphrey and invited guests.

I adapted five audiodescribed performances into a streaming radio performance
season and facilitated the collaborative audiodescription (underpinned by
literary and aesthetic access principles) with a team of un/trained describers.
This show received the Chunky Move x Melbourne Fringe Radical Access Commission.
It was awarded ‘Innovation in Dance’ and ‘Sound and Technical Excellence’, and
nominated for ‘Best Dance and Physical Theatre’ and ‘Spirit of the Fringe’ at
the 2023 Fringe awards. At the 2024 Green Room Awards, it was nominated for
‘Outstanding Work’ and won ‘Design/Technical Achievement’ in the Contemporary
and Experimental category.

My deepest thanks to the entire creative team and crew for a uniquely
generative, practice-expanding and rigorous transdisciplinary collaboration. You
can find out more about the team here





THE URGE TO KNOW


(DEBRIS MAGAZINE, 2023)


A literary magazine offering 16 responses – in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and
reviews, an interview, a photo essay and a recipe – to the urge to know

With contributions from Jamie Marina Lau, Nayuka Gorrie, Jumaana Abdu, Justin
Clemens, Martyn Reyes, Xen Nhà, Alison Whittaker, Cherine Fahd, Madison Pawle,
Em Meller, Lucy Van, Snack Syndicate, Scott Limbrick, Zhi Cham, Samantha
Floreani, Kat Gledhill-Tucker and Darcy Hytt. Holy shit!

Thank you Julia Flaster and Elena Tjandra for helming Debris and giving me the
opportunity to collaborate with my incredible fellow guest editor, Cher Tan.
Zenobia Ahmed designed this beautiful issue with typefaces by Dennis Grauel and
Wei Huang. Order it now!








OSCILLATIONS


 (POWERHOUSE MUSEUM, 2022)


A podcast of seven newly-commissioned sound works about people, movements and
the world – refracted through objects held in the Powerhouse collection

Featuring beautiful, critical, lateral new pieces by Dakota Feirer, Alexandra
Spence, John Jacobs and Jane Curtis, Miyuki Jokiranta, Omar Musa, Sally Olds and
Jinghua Qian.

The wonderful team at the Powerhouse includes the inexhaustible Cara Stewart,
Ayeesha Ash, Mara Schwerdtfeger and Callum Cooper. Erin Hyde composed the
gurgling, humming theme music







MIRROR


 (LIMINAL, 2022)


A digital publication featuring eight newly-commissioned works of art and
writing: poetry, essays, videos, correspondences, drawings and a hypothetical
gift shop

With my deepest thanks to Serenity Department, Andrew Brooks and Arvind Rosa
Brooks, Ju Bavyka, Ai Yamamoto, Fayen d’Evie and Lloyd Mst, Liang Luscombe,
Flatwhite Damascus and Jean Bachoura and YY for their creativity, trust and
spirit, and again to Leah Jing McIntosh for the invitation to guest-edit Mirror,
and for her faith and support. Design, above, by Anny Luo







MEANINGLESS SECS


 (WEIRD NOISE, 2022)


A short provocation about uselessness, industrial meaning-making, friction and
inscrutability in radio-making, for issue one of new print zine Weird Noise

The sold-out inaugural edition of Eleanor McDowall’s latest work of space-making
 (tireless excellence, I swear) includes essays, illustrations, poems and
photographs by audio makers from around the world. It’s now freely readable
online (with thanks to Charlie Shackleton). Thank you, El, for the invitation
(🎺)!







PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR


 (LIMINAL AND PANTERA PRESS, 2022)


An essay about materials, accumulations and the mortifying power of ten bucks.
It lives in a new anthology of writing about memory and archives, available now

I’m very grateful to be published alongside the deeply engaged essays of the
Liminal and Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist. The collection is edited by
Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez; special thanks to Leah for her
generosity as an editor, encourager and enabler of this piece (and opportunity
and collection and imprint). Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2023







THESE THOUGHTS LARGE AND PUBLIC


 (OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE, 2022)


A live streaming radio broadcast from Victorian Trades Hall & Literary
Institute, in collaboration with Snack Syndicate – with conversations, readings,
stories and (top 40) songs about work, anti-work and the rights and precarities
of labour

The broadcast spanned two days (and 13 hours) as part of Open House Melbourne
2022’s July Weekend artistic commissions, Take Hold of the Clouds, curated by
Tara McDowell and Fleur Watson. Featuring Tony Birch, Jennifer Hamilton, Antony
Moore, Chelsea Hart, Evelyn Araluen, Jonathan Dunk, Jathan Sadowski, Elena
Gomez, Melody Paloma, Cher Tan, Terri Ann Quan Sing, MP Hopkins, Sally Olds and
Arvind Rosa. Fayen d’Evie, Yue Yang and Luke Rigby’s thoughtful Open House /
Open Access work intersects with this project. My gratitude for dream
collaborators Andrew and Astrid knows no limit!








CEREMONY AUDIO TOUR


 (NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, 2022)


Seventeen audio tour stops for Ceremony – the NGA’s fourth National Indigenous
Art Triennial curated by Hetti Perkins – composed around recordings of each
artist in conversation and at work

With thanks to Keir Winesmith and Brittany Burgess at the gallery. Ceremony is
open 26 March to 31 July 2022 in Canberra, on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country








THE CIRCULAR #18: AUDIO EDITION


 (SYDNEY REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2022)


For The Circular’s first audio edition, a curation of sound works that implicate
listeners or play with attention in interesting ways

Every Friday, The Circular assembles a curation of new and archival non-fiction
from ‘Australia’, bringing some select pieces out from behind paywalls, too. It
really embodies a belief in archives of ideas. Thank you Tiff Tsao and Sydney
Review of Books for inviting me to be a guest editor!








_____________ COMPLETE ____ REPLACEMENT


(UN MAGAZINE, 2021)


An essay about solutions, metabolism, self-snooping, bodily score-keeping,
latent heat, a long line of belly buttons, dead birds, our inscrutability … and
possibly more? 👀

Published in Un Magazine 15.2: Metabolism (December 2021), commissioned and
edited by Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks). Thank you, A+A,
for your patient and wise editing! I’m also grateful to Amita Kirpalani,
Caroline Jumpertz, Emma Hartley, Lily Sloane, Mike Williams, Natalie Kestecher,
Virginia Heal and Zacha Rosen for the loan of their voices, and for their
generosity and trust. Shortlisted for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award
for Non-Fiction








MIDDAY, WELLSFORD STATE FOREST


(FIELD RECORDINGS, 2021)


Birds, bugs, breeze, bushes, Box-Ironbark

Recorded in Wellsford for Eleanor McDowall’s Field Recordings project








DISORGANISING


(LIQUID ARCHITECTURE/WEST SPACE/BUS PROJECTS, 2021)


Audio archive recording and short narrative documentation as part of a
multi-institutional exploration of cooperative art/s practice, centred around
Collingwood Yards

Doodle/notes/scan by Nina Gibbes. Audio developed in collaboration with Joel
Stern, Xen Nha and a host of others. Some recommended reading: Cher Tan, Maddee
Clark, Timmah Ball








PLAY NEW: JARYD CLIFFORD


(NIKE/SOUTHSOUTHWEST, 2021)


Narrative audio and composition as part of a cross-media celebration of vision
impaired runner Jaryd Clifford and his bond with guide runner Tim Logan

With Ben Birchall, Andy Sargent, Ben Bomitali, Alica Kroupa, Bonnie Moir and … a
lot of other people. You have no idea how many people work on these things.
(Film is mind-boggling). The nice photo above is by Sam Wong. Sorry for ruining
your photo by adding the tile artwork, Sam 😰️








THE MUSEUM OF US


(ARTS ACCESS VICTORIA/VICTORIA TOGETHER, 2021)


A digital exhibition of 49 Deaf, Disabled and Neurodiverse artists

Over a few months, I worked with artists to assist them in producing digitally
accessible pieces for this fully captioned, audio described exhibition, with
help from the AAV team (especially Fury). Sadly, it went offline when Victoria
Together was shuttered. With thanks and congratulations to the artists: Adam
Knapper, Alana O'Neill, Aleshanee Faery, Alistair Baldwin, Ana Maria Gomides,
Bek Saltmarsh, Ben Gritt, Brendan Harwood, Bridgette Griffiths-Mark, CB Mako,
Chelle Destefano, Doron Banks, Elvin Lam, Emma Holt, Ferris Knight, Fiona
Taylor, Gemma Mahadeo, Geryon, Greg Muir, Güler Altunbas, Jenna Bailey, Jennifer
Fennell, Jessica Walton, Jonathan Thompson, Kochava Lilit, Kristin Gillespie,
Lara MacFarlane, Laurence Flegg, Marc Sorbello, Marnie Woods, Melissa Caggegi,
Melody Shotade, Naomi Chainey, Natalia Lopez, Nayook, Nicole Tsourlenes, Noon
Beecher Kelk, Olivia Muscat, Patrick Francis, Raina Peterson, Ramas McRae,
Raphael 'The Beurologist' Kaleb, Roslyn Simmons, Ryan Allman, Tamar Dolev,
Teagan Connor, Veronica Heritage-Gorrie, Warren Loorham. Curated by Caroline
Bowditch








THE BIG BREAK THAT BROKE KATE


(ABC RN, 2021)


Actor Kate McNamara walks us through her big break … down, for the ABC
storytelling podcast Days Like These

With thanks to Kate, supervising producer Kyla Slaven, host Elizabeth Kulas, and
the Days Like These season three team








INTERVIEW #172


(LIMINAL MAGAZINE, 2021)


A nice long conversation with Nathania Gilson for Liminal, with photos by Leah
Jing McIntosh

I wouldn’t normally put this kind of thing here, but some day we’ll all be dead,
so why not?








EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL


(DAREBIN ARTS, 2021)


An interactive short story about applause and the ways we crave to be observed,
acknowledged and rewarded. Published in Proximities, a part of Exhibiting
Culture Online

Commissioned and edited by Vidya Rajan. Interaction and layout coding by BF.
(Full version works best on a laptop/desktop)







GOOD LONG TIME


(GOING DOWN SWINGING, 2021)


A short story about getting old, getting cold and living forever (or just a
little longer, anyway). Published in Going Down Swinging #41: AR Edition

Edited by Magenta Sheridan. Augmented by augmented reality artist Anneli
Goeller. Read it on a laptop/desktop if you can. In 41 Extra!, the digital
launch of the edition, you can watch a short reading or eavesdrop on a
conversation with fellow 41’er Lujayn Hourani. This story was included in the
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2021 Fiction shortlist








RADIO ROW


(WFMU, 2020)


A 59-minute radio broadcast constructed of smartphone voice memos and audio
notes-to-self. Or: what is this sound, and why the hell did I record it?

Re-broadcast via Radiophrenia on 26 August 2023. Thanks to Adalya, Amita, André,
Bec, Beth, Connor, Isobel, Ivy, Karishma, Masako, Nicole, Nicola, Pepi and Silvi
for sharing their recordings








HORROR VACUI


(MAKING ART WORK/INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, 2020)


A multimedia essay about fear of empty spaces, written with Mia McAuslan

Commissioned by Alex Holt. An extract appears in the book Making Art Work (IMA,
2021)








MANUS RECORDING PROJECT COLLECTIVE: WHERE ARE YOU TODAY


(LIQUID ARCHITECTURE, 2020)


A recording and listening project

Produced in collaboration with Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul,
Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj and Yasin Abdallah in Australian
immigration detention, and André Dao and Michael Green. Read a dossier of
writing about this work in Disclaimer







DIVISION EXERCISES


(AVANTWHATEVER, 2020)


A video essay about delineations, discernments and boundaries

For Avantwhatever’s 2020 artistic programme, curated by Ben Byrne








SEPARATION STUDIES


(LIMINAL, 2020)


A multimedia essay about divisions and separations

Edited by Cher Tan for LIMINAL Magazine’s Glitch series








GREY-HEADED FLYING FOX COLONY


(FIELD RECORDINGS, 2020)


Ten minutes amongst the bats at dusk in Yarra Bend Park

For Eleanor McDowall’s Field Recordings project








EAVESDROPPING: A READER


(CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON, 2019)


A contribution to the book accompanying the exhibition/investigation

Edited by James Parker and Joel Stern








THING-LIKE


(CONSTELLATIONS, 2019)


A four-channel sound installation and a podcast commission about the human
voice, time and money

Part of the Resonant Bodies project curated by Aliya Pabani, Michelle Macklem
and Jess Shane – exhibited at Toronto Media Arts Center and published on
Constellations








AS FAR AS THE I


(BBC RADIO 4, 2019)


A short radio feature for an Oulipo-themed episode of the podcast/radio
programme Short Cuts







SIGNAL BOOST


(WHEELER CENTRE, 2019–2023)



Developed an inclusion- and experimentation-focussed audio storytelling
programme

Participants received $10,000 each in funded learning, tailored mentorship,
tools and equipment, practical support and paid work experience








THE EMPATHY MUSEUM: A MILE IN MY SHOES


(ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 2019)


An audio story about walking through the city of Melbourne and around the Yarra
River at night

Presented as part of a rather literal installation in which you could wear … my
shoes







NOTES


(WHEELER CENTRE, 2018–2020)


A digital publication showcasing award-winning original Australian writing and
adventurous multimedia stories. R.I.P.!

Created and edited with Sophie Quick








MIND THE STEP: KINESTHESIA AND CRAFT


(BARBICAN, 2018)


An essay about the body as a listening device – drawing on experiences of
contemporary dance

Curated by Eleanor McDowall and Nina Garthwaite for the Barbican Centre’s
Soundhouse: The Listening Body exhibition and public programme. Sketch by Nina!








MANUS RECORDING PROJECT COLLECTIVE: HOW ARE YOU TODAY


(LIQUID ARCHITECTURE/MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL, 2018)


An installation built around daily recordings from six men living in Australia’s
immigration detention on Manus Island

Part of the Eavesdropping investigation curated by Joel Stern (LA) and James
Parker (MLS); shown at Ian Potter Museum of Art, City Gallery Wellington, Gus
Fisher Gallery Auckland and Melbourne Law School








EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS


(2018–)


Miscellaneous!








CHANGES AGAIN


(ABC RADIO NATIONAL, 2017)


A story about looking and seeing, breakage and recognition, for the
podcast/radio programme Soundproof








THE MESSENGER


(BEHIND THE WIRE AND THE WHEELER CENTRE, 2017–2019)


A podcast based on thousands of voice messages sent by Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a
refugee detained on the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, Papua
New Guinea, to Michael Green, a journalist based in Melbourne

With Abdul Aziz Muhamat, Michael Green, André Dao, BF, Hannah Reich and Sophie
Black. Winner of a W*lkley Award, NY Festivals International Radio Awards Grand
Trophy and several others. No Grammy … but mum says it could still happen?








THE INTERROBANG


(WHEELER CENTRE, 2017)


Digital production of a crowdsourced festival of questions – including a
publication featuring Sheila Heti, Sam Wallman, Estelle Tang, Toby Fehily and
Geoffrey O’Connor

Produced with Connor O’Brien








UNDER AND OVER AND INTO AND BETWEEN


(ASSEMBLE PAPERS, 2017)


A mixtape (and interview) working through minimalism, stretched sounds and
various positions on the human voice

Commissioned by Jana Perković








AUSTRALIAN AUDIO GUIDE


(2016–2020)


Co-founder/editor of a website offering short reviews of Australian podcasts and
radio series, and interviews and features about how – and why – they were made

Created in collaboration with Kate Montague








SPEED PAINTERS: BELLARINE AND BELLARINE II


(CUTTERS RECORDS, 2015)


Two records alloying slow-burning house music, techno and found sound

A musical group with Tig Huggins, Nick Huggins and Oscar O’Bryan








THE BIG PRAWN


(ABC RADIO NATIONAL, 2015)


A short story, written by Katia Pase, about a young girl’s search for her mother
and the mythical landmark of her childhood, for the podcast/radio programme
Radiotonic







YOUR WORDS, NOT MINE


(MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL/LIT HOP MELBOURNE, 2014)


Is it weird to play the part of somebody else in a radio feature? Our sources
say yes, and we have the research to prove it: namely, this unique radio karaoke
event presented at Loop, which provoked novel ethical questions while taking a
very long time to subtitle

Featuring works by Timothy Nicastri, Jaye Kranz, Jessie Borrelle, John Jacobs,
Julie Shapiro, Michael Brydon, Tom Cho, Natalie Kestecher and Sophie Townsend,
Quinn Eades and Russell Stapleton







20 QUESTIONS


(WHEELER CENTRE, 2014)


Interactive campaign and digital production of statistics-driven live event

With Simon Abrahams, Ian Pidd, Martyn Coutts, Icelab and more








#DISCUSS


(WHEELER CENTRE/CLEMENGER BBDO, 2014)


Awareness campaign for the Wheeler Centre, bridging digital/physical discussion
with 100 temporary/permanent plaques mounted city-wide

With Michael Williams, Pauline O’Brien, Simon Abrahams, Tamara Zimet, Ben
Keenan, Ben Birchall, Nathan Rogers, Sharon Adams, Berlin Abraham, Louise
Sergent, Kate Little and more








DISORIENT EXPRESS


(RADIO WITH PICTURES/GRAPHIC FESTIVAL/SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, 2012)


A live performance of an illustrated radio feature, made in collaboration with
artist Lachlan Conn, performed at Sydney Opera House and broadcast on FBi Radio

With great appreciation for Pepi Ronalds, who generously shared her experiences
and recollections of the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and its nuclear aftermath.
Commissioned by Gabriel Clark, Eliza Sarlos and the late Jesse Cox








PAPER RADIO


(EST. 2010)


A long-running, now (barely) intermittent podcast (or journal) publishing
fiction and non-fiction from ‘australia’ and Aotearoa New Zealand

Created with Jessie Borrelle





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