This Sunday night show was hosted by Alison Bolger on Melbourne radio 3CR for several years until 2010, with David Nichols, Duncan Blachford and Greg Wadley filling in when Alison was unavailable. Greg's shows were often interview-based and some are preserved here.
[added 2023: The audio recordings are too big for our current hosting arrangement, and so are unavailable for the moment.]The second volume of this history of experimental music is a double-cd covering the years 1974 to 1983 . It was launched at Iwaki Auditorium on 27th November 2010. Producer Clinton Green and Sam Dunscombe from Golden Fur talked about the compilations, the history of experimental music, and the 1970s tape-recorder opera Atom Bomb that Golden Fur reinterpreted for the launch.
Australian music icon and author Dave Graney spoke about his career from the late 70s in South Australia, through his long collaboration with Clare Moore playing in The Moodists in London in the 80s, via their mid-90s hits with the Coral Snakes, to their 2010 album Supermodified which reworks some earlier releases.
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill have been making experimental films since the early 60s and composing the soundtracks with techniques such as collage, looping and field recording, and technologies ranging from tape-decks to computers. Clinton recently compiled these to release Chromatic Mysteries: soundtracks 1963-2009, which was launched on 6th June 2010 at ACMI. Arthur relates some career highlights and we play some of the soundtracks.
Ian Wadley (relation) has played several instruments in many bands. At the time of this interview, when not drumming for Minimum Chips, Six Organs of Admittance, Mick Turner or Jandek he toured the US, UK and Europe playing solo improvised guitar. We heard some of this music and some early musical influences.
Glenn Norman is a Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne musician, zinester and radio artist whose outfits Pork, Volvox and Devotion produced classic Australian outsider art. We talked about old and new recordings and Glenn's idiosyncratic approach to making and releasing culture.
A guitarist in 90s Toronto hardcore punk bands such as Kops For Christ and now a researcher in Melbourne, Pete Benda discussed Canadian culture old and new, played some Canadian punk songs, and offered insights into how Canadian and Australian culture diverges.
Vocalist in 80s Melbourne band Shower Scene From Psycho and audio engineer on a large number of Australian indie releases, Simon Grounds has been playing and recording music since the first four-track tape decks appeared, and currently works with a combination of tape and computer. Simon told us some sociotechnical history of DIY recording, and played a selection of relevant records marking International Womens Day.
A sound-artist under the name Undecisive God and operator of the prolific Shame File label, Clinton's releases include the compilation Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 - 1973. We discussed Clinton's research into the history of experimental music.
Andrew Bulhak was a local indie music identity before relocating to Europe. Here he takes us on a veritable rail tour of Europe, playing and discussing interesting indie-pop, electro and shoegazer of the time, mainly from the UK, Iceland, Germany and Sweden but with a couple of US and Australian mentions too.
