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“A haunting evocation
of Australia”
- BBC Radio 3, “Mixing It” Program
Presenters Mark
Russell and Robert Sandall
11th June 2004
Listen online to Dutch
National Radio's (VPRO Radio) 14th of January 2004 broadcast
of The Ears Outside My Listening
Room on their
Cafe
Sonore program.
Online audio stream with phone interview
can be found at http://www.vpro.nl/programma/cafesonore/afleveringen/15336458/
Aussie entries stand out in broadcasting
By Desmond O'Grady
September 22, 2003
"Two Australian productions
have won sections of the Prix Italia, the world's most prestigious
broadcasting prize.....
The radio music section was won
by The Ear Outside My Listening Room
... produced in Sydney.
... composer Colin Black was responsible
for The Ear Outside My Listening Room,
described as taking "a
snapshot of our country, our people, our time, our diversity,
our culture and trying to preserve it in an album of emotive,
sonic collage".
The Prix Italia was established
in 1948 for radio productions but in the 1950s television productions
were added and, in 2000, web productions.
There is also a special prize for
productions in favour of help for the handicapped and the oppressed.
This year broadcasting organizations
from 60 nations took part.
France was the only other nation
which won two sections of Prix Italia this year."
Spotlight
December 15, 2003
"The
Listening Room broadcasts
it's last show. It goes out with style, broadcasting the Prix
Italia Award-winning work of Australian composer Colin Black.
The Ears Outside My Listening Room
was specifically created for
the acoustic music show and features people speaking from all
around the country"
"It is the human themes and
Black's clever composition that bind the stories and music together."
- State of the
Arts, "Arts News," 1st December 2003
viewpoints
limelight's news and views on arts and entertainment
...
"It is equivalent of, I think, an Olympic gold medal," says executive
producer of the ABC Acoustic Art Unit, Robyn Ravlich. "It has the
same
effect. Doors will open for Colin, all over the world. He will be
introduced to the radio community worldwide."
For more info click here.
Realtime Magazine, RT52 edition,
December 02/January 03
"... a comprehensive work made
of suggestion, mood and voiceprint character studies
that gives a tangible, inclusive
and unselfconscious impression of Australian-ness and its many
voices. "
-Gail Priest, RealTime
Magazine, RT52 edition, December
02/January 03
118, 120, 122
(part one) included in the 2001 Australia
Ad Lib
Website archive, an interactive guide to the wild, the weird and
the vernacular in Australian music. The Australia Ad Lib project
plans also a larger and more detailed documentation, soon
to be held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra,
the Australian Music Centre, Sydney and the ABC Radio's,The
Listening Room, who commissioned this project for their 2001
Australia Council New Media Arts Fund Residency.
APRAP, "What's Happening
- Tours & Deals," July 2001edition
Mixdown Magazine (Issue
#72, April 2000), "Musically Encoding The Apocalypse, Variety
Style!" interveiw
Australian Musician
Magazine,
(issue 13, Autumn 1998), "Taking Your Music To The World
... Without Going"
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