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New Waves

ABC (Australia)

For listeners interested in Australian music culture and the contemporary music scene, the New Waves podcast delivers downloads of diverse ABC-exclusive music recordings and related interviews to your computer.

Location:

Melbourne, VIC

Description:

For listeners interested in Australian music culture and the contemporary music scene, the New Waves podcast delivers downloads of diverse ABC-exclusive music recordings and related interviews to your computer.

Twitter:

@ABCClassic

Language:

English

Contact:

ABC Classic FM PO Box 9994 Melbourne 3001 Victoria 1300 766 282


Episodes
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The Song Company: Songs from the Heart

11/17/2022
Songs from the Heart is a new a capella cantata created by First Nations composers Elizabeth Sheppard and Sonya Holowell, in collaboration with The Song Company led by Antony Pitts.

Duration:01:55:11

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New Waves: No More Sugar, No More Tea

11/10/2022
No More Sugar, No More Tea occupies a unique space — not quite opera, not quite theatre, but deeply informed by its writer/composer and natural storyteller Richard Frankland's Indigenous heritage, as well as co-composer Biddy Connor's direct melodic style.

Duration:01:04:25

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The ANAM Set

11/2/2022
67 Composers. 67 Instrumentalists. In this New Waves special, hear recordings and interviews from one of the most ambitious commissioning projects in Australian music history.

Duration:00:38:17

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Australian Art Orchestra: 1988

7/14/2022
Vietnamese-Australian composer-performer Dung Nguyen, musician Minh Ha Patmore and visual artist Phuong Ngo take the Australian Art Orchestra on a cross-cultural journey of discovery.

Duration:01:46:40

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Nardi Simpson: -barra

4/7/2022
Nardi Simpson shares music and stories of Yuwaalaraay Country in concert with Ensemble Offspring, Kevin Hunt and the Barayagal Choir.

Duration:01:58:46

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A Portrait of Liza Lim's Operas

3/3/2022
Liza Lim on how storytelling through opera has shaped her own story as a composer.

Duration:01:39:54

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New music by First Nations composers

11/10/2020
First Nations composers share stories and visions. And make new music for an C18 square piano, voice, violin, and didgeridoo.

Duration:01:12:42

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The music of Australia's birds

10/21/2020
Immerse yourself in the sounds of some of Australia’s great songbirds. And the human music they inspire.

Duration:02:06:30

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Deborah Cheetham: Woven Song

10/5/2020
Deborah Cheetham presents her Woven Song Embassy Tapestry Project and more.

Duration:01:26:27

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Josephine Macken: The Tent

8/27/2020
A sonic evocation of a post-apocalyptic world in which humankind scrambles to decipher the remnants of civilisation with the aid of a mysterious machine.

Duration:00:35:16

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Georgia Scott: Her Dark Marauder

8/27/2020
A dramatic musico-poetic telling of the life experience of a disabled person from the inside, with inspiration from the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

Duration:00:44:07

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Peggy Polias: Commute

8/26/2020
An operatic re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey through the eyes of a female 'Odyssea' on her night-time walk home.

Duration:00:36:04

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Bree van Reyk: Invisible Bird

8/25/2020
An operatic parable of the disappearance and re-emergence of the elusive endangered Australian bird the Night Parrot.

Duration:00:52:10

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Aussie Sampler 2

7/1/2020
Old faves and new releases from the personal playlists of 12 outstanding Australian musicians.

Duration:01:08:09

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Keeping the Music Alive

5/6/2020
16 artists from the Australian music scene talk about staying creative and connected in these times of physical and social isolation.

Duration:01:09:13

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Aussie Sampler

4/8/2020
10 creative musicians from around the country expand your music collection with some great new releases and old faves.

Duration:00:49:52

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Cat Hope: Speechless, part 2

3/7/2020
Listen to Cat Hope's wordless opera, inspired by The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.

Duration:00:25:04

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Cat Hope: Speechless, part 1

3/5/2020
Cat Hope and singer-collaborators talk about her wordless opera that aims to give voice to the voiceless.

Duration:00:25:04

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Shout-outs for some inspiring musical women

3/4/2020
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance introduce more artists that inspire them.

Duration:00:11:15

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Three impressive musicians talk about gender and the future of music

2/27/2020
Katie Noonan, Liza Lim and Alice Chance talk about careers, role models, gender equity, and their visions for a more diverse and inclusive musical world.

Duration:00:43:16