The Night Air

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The Night Air is an ever-changing radio composition of music, sounds, ideas and stories. 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 Nationalīs distinctive programming.Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listenerīs imagination build a new story. Itīs 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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  2008-10-05 Target Practice
  Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Dodging the fusillades of gunshot big and small, including that of the world's most-used weapon of mass destruction—the Russian-made AK47—the Kalashnikov, the weapon of choice for armies, guerrillas, criminals and international arms dealers. After that, join the escapades of a bunch of folkloric merry men fighting against injustice and tyranny with bows and arrows—the medieval and Hollywood-ised Robin Hood. For music details, please click on 'Show Transcript'.
  
  
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  2008-09-28 Reverb
  Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Sounds that linger longer open up spaces for reflection, remembering and rhythm. From a whisper to a scream, the echoes of eternity reverberate in The Night Air—at least for a while. This week's Collide-o-scope is by Jonathon Hutchinson. He writes: 'In Guise explores the divide between what is perceived and what is the person, placed in front of an urban period that is between sunset and sunrise. It is also part of a greater project from the third year RMIT University students for The Night Air surrounding the theme of Isolation.' Read and hear more here. For music details, please click on 'Show Transcript'.
  
  
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  2008-09-21 Visual
  Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Open your eyes and it feels as if our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful—thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. However, some researchers believe that we don't actually see the world as it really is and that it could be a grand illusion. In a world of the ocular and photopic, we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined. For music details please click on 'Read Transcript'. Collide-o-scope is a new feature where we play a listener-contributed collage each week tonight's sound story is by Michelle Watts. There's more of her mixes as well as a whole lot of other creative mixed and mashed ideas at pool.org.au
  
  
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  2008-09-14 Greek Feast
  Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  The Night Air team visits Perama, a Greek restaurant in Sydney's Petersham, and is regaled with Greek poetry, wine and song by owner Harry Tanvakeras. Perama's chef David Tsirekas offers up examples of traditional and new Greek cuisine, with history lessons aplenty. Virtual guests at the festivities include Greek-Australian writers Mary Zournazi, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Vivi Katsounadis-Germanos, Tes Lyssiotis, John Conomos, Antigone Kefala, and Pi.O. Yassou! For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Collide-o-scope is a new feature where we play a listener-contributed collage each week tonight's sound story "Rockpooling" is by Angela Grant. There's more creative mixed and mashed ideas at pool.org.au