Shannon O’Neill

Some friends of mine are getting broadband (at last) and I’ve been asked for netcast recommendations.

Over the past few years most of my media consumption has switched to downloads, whether netcasts or torrents, accessed via RSS feeds, aggregated using Google Reader. My use of radio and TV is now mainly for news and occasional sports broadcasts. This feels like an inevitable technological and cultural shift, so I was surprised when I discovered recently that very few of my students subscribe to any netcasts.

Here are my current subscriptions. As you can see, there are a lot of them! I don’t have time to catch every episode, so pick and choose based on episode descriptions.

UPDATE: This post has been receiving links, so I’ll endeavour to keep it updated. I’ve just added some recent finds, such as Are We Alone?, The Bugle, and Epic Fu, and removed several others that I was no longer downloading.

Audio netcasts:

• Adam and Joe BBC 6 Music

Humour is such a personal thing, but Adam and Joe make me laugh. Frequently. I first got into them via their great XFM podcast.

• Alan Watts Podcast

Mostly talks on Eastern philosophy from Alan Watts’ archives.

• All in the Mind

Interesting RN program about psychology, neurology, philosophy of mind, etc.

• anonradio: the next generation

Run by Tom Ellard, this has evolved over the years and is currently mainly providing downloads of John Blades’ 2MBS-FM program ‘Background Noise’.

• Are We Alone?

The SETI Institute’s excellent program about science and skepticism.

• Artworks

A good arts program.

• ASX Investor Update Podcast

Nonsense, but useful if, like me, you’d like to understand the world of finance.

• Background Briefing

RN’s in-depth current affairs program.

• Big Ideas

Mostly public lectures from Australia.

• Blogariddims

Dubstep mixes.

• The Bugle

The Times Online’s satirical podcast, with John Oliver (of The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman

• CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks Segmented Show

An entertaining Canadian science show, split into bite-sized chunks.

• CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas

Mostly public lectures from Canada.

• Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com

Cory Doctorow reads his stories, and sometimes others’, such as Bruce Sterling’s excellent non-fiction work, ‘The Hacker Crackdown’.

• Daily GizWiz

A silly program about gadgets, presented by Leo Laporte and Mad Magazine’s Dick DeBartolo.

• First Monday Podcast

Monthly academically-inclined podcast about digital culture.

• FLOSS Weekly

Interviews and discussion about the world of open source software. Often quite technical, which I reckon is a good thing.

• Hindsight

RN history program.

• hungbunny

Experimental music.

• In Conversation

RN interview program.

• In Our Time

Essential. A panel of experts discusses a topic from science, history or the arts. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

• KCRW’s Le Show

Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) has a voice that could make reading the newspaper sound interesting, which is sort of what he does here, along with sketches and songs. One of my favourite shows.

• Late Night Live

Interviews and current affairs presented by Philip Adams.

• Lingua Franca

A program about language.

• MacBreak Weekly

A favourite, mainly because of the amusing banter between Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann and Andy Ihnatko.

• Movie Time

Movie reviews and interviews, featuring some great collages by Paul Gough (aka Pimmon).

• Mysterious Universe

An Australian show about the paranormal.

• National Interest

Australian national politics and current affairs.

• net@night

Amber Macarthur and Leo Laporte are the engaging hosts of this net-surfing show.

• Ockham’s Razor

Short talks by various Australian thinkers.

• Over The Edge

Negativland’s legendary live mixing show which has been going for decades.

• Overlap.org » symbiosis

I thought this was a sound art show, but now it’s dubstep.

• Philosopher’s Zone

I love this show. Accessible discussion of philosophical issues.

• Eleven Eleven

Excellent sound art and experimental music podcast by Jen Teo.

• Chasing the Tangent

Sofie Loizou presents lovely, soulful electronica.

• Radio Eye

Radiophonic features from RN.

• Read/WriteTalk

From the excellent blog on Web 2.0 etc., this podcast is good when they’re not recording from a speaker phone.

• RRR FM (Byte Into It)

Tech news from Melbourne community station RRR FM. Of interest to me is that the cast includes some members of the experimental music scene.

• SALT - Seminars About Long Term Thinking

Interesting lectures from people such as Brian Eno, Joline Blais & Jon Ippolito.

• Science With Dr Karl

Australian celebrity scientist Dr Karl takes listeners’ questions on this BBC show.

• Some Assembly Required

A musical fix for the Negativland/John Oswald style cutup scene.

• StarShipSofa: Science Fiction Audio Podcast

Spoken short stories, mostly, including some well-known names from the genre.

• Stephen Fry’s Podgrams

I wish I could live in Stephen Fry’s world.

• The Amazing Show starring James Randi

Sporadic at best, I heard about it through the Skeptics’ Guide.

• The Book Show

Reviews and interviews.

• The Economist

A recent subscription, I’m still making up my mind about this. Mainly short but serious political commentaries.

• The Media Report

When the topics interest me, this is a great program, with insights into the media industries.

• The Music Show

Andrew Ford is a respected classical composer who is open-minded enough to engage with all sorts of music makers on this program.

• The Night Air

Radio art is increasingly rare on the ABC, but The Night Air maintains the tradition. Its emphasis is on collage and remixing from the ABC’s archives.

• The Science Show

An Australian national treasure, the ABC’s flagship science program.

• The Skeptics’ Guide 5X5

The mini-me version of:

• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe

Your escape to reality. The panel of rogues turn debunking feeble-minded superstition into laugh-out-loud fun. Cruel, but fair.

• The Sound of Young America

One of my faves. Entertaining interviews with smart people - mostly writers, comedians and media makers.

• The SubGenius Hour of Slack Podcast

Church of the SubGenius. Nuff said.

• The VFX Show

Mainly concerned with feature film CGI and compositing. One of the hosts is Australian, which is nice.

• this WEEK in TECH

I’m a big fan of Leo Laporte - he’s the consumate, charming tech broadcaster. The panel usually includes John C. Dvorak and others with plenty of personality, chatting about the week’s tech news.

• triple j’s This Sporting Life

From the legenday Australian characters Roy and H.G.

• WFMU’s Codpaste with People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz

Amusing mixing from two well-known collagists. See also their individual shows below.

• WFMU’s Do or DIY with People Like Us
• WFMU’s Phuj Phactory with Ergo Phizmiz
• WFMU’s Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy Breckman

Live radio shenanigans.

• WFMU’s The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling

Cult radio from WFMU.

• Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott

Insights into the Windows world with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott. Not as much fun as MacBreak Weekly, but still interesting for the hardcore geek.

• WNYC’s Radio Lab

Essential. This is one of the most interesting programs anywhere. Ostensibly a science feature program, the radiophonic production techniques take it into the realm of art.

• You Look Nice Today

Merlin Mann and friends being silly.

Video netcasts:

• Boing Boing TV

Xeni Jardin is a good presenter, and there’s plenty of the weirdness one would expect from Boing Boing, but I want more from this show. Maybe longer, less frequent episodes, rather than the current morsels which leave me remembering the ads more than the content.

• Cranky Geeks

John C. Dvorak is indeed a very cranky geek, which makes this otherwise typical discussion of tech news entertaining. Some of the guests are interesting, too.

• David Wain

If you liked Stella you’ll like this.

• Diggnation

I watch this so that I don’t have to read Digg.com. Like many Revision3 shows, it can be painfully frat-boy, but Alex Albrecht & Kevin Rose have enough charisma to carry it off.

• Epic Fu

At last, a Revision 3 show that has a clue about art and music. This is quickly becoming a favourite.

• Howard Rheingold’s Vlog

The author of Smart Mobs takes us into the classroom and his freaky wardrobe.

• iFanboy

I don’t have time to read comics these days, so I watch this instead.

• Internet Superstar

Martin Sargent is my Internet superstar. He’s obsessed with the weirder side of the web and presents it for our pleasure.

• Lynchland: The Liam Lynch Podcast

The guy who sang ‘The United States of Whatever’ and directed ‘Jesus is Magic’ makes this amazing-looking show full of music and humour.

• MacBreak

Not, as one might assume, a show about Apple computers, but mostly little tutorials about high end media production technology. Which is interesting to me anyway.

• My Damn Channel - Big Fat Brain

The ‘You Suck at Photoshop’ series is already a classic.

• My Damn Channel - Harry Shearer

Occasional satirical sketches and songs from Harry Shearer.

• PixelPerfect

Photoshop tutorials by someone from the Mafia, apparently.

• popSiren

A show hosted by women, for… guys? I’m not yet sure about this new Revision3 show, although Dr Kiki’s science demonstrations are fun.

• Rocketboom

I love this show. One never knows whether to expect serious news or something completely whimsical. Often it’s somewhere in-between.

• Tekzilla

Hosted by Patrick Norton, this Revision3 show isn’t sure what it is yet, but I think it’s intended to become a relatively mainstream, viewer-friendly tech show. UPDATE: The wonderful Veronica Belmont, whose talents had been wasted at Mahalo Daily, is now co-host of Tekzilla. Roger Chang is getting more screen time too. This bodes well.

• The Digg Reel

A compilation of popular videos from around the net. It’s funny downloading a huge HD file to watch lo-res YouTube videos.

• The Totally Rad Show

Reviews of TV, films, comics, etc. by ‘three rad dudes’. Good production values.

• Tiki Bar TV

A very silly show featuring Dr Tiki, Johnny Johnny and Lala.

• UChannel Video Podcast

Video recordings of lectures. Sometimes fascinating, sometimes dull.

• Wallstrip

A humorous show about the stock market? It shouldn’t work, but it kinda does, mainly cos it keeps things short and punchy, with each episode focusing on a single stock.

• Web Drifter

Martin Sargent meeting Internet weirdos again, this time on their turf.

• XLR8R TV

Whether it’s checking out Matmos’ record collection, or getting Ableton Live tips from Christopher Willits, this is a cool show for music geeks.

• Yacht Rock

A brilliant, melodramatic piss-take of the world of 70s smooth rock.

Any others you’d recommend?

Adrian and I will be guest hosting Utility Fog this Sunday night from 10pm til 1am on FBi Radio 94.5FM.

From 8.30pm this Tuesday and next, my UTS Audio Workshop students will be presenting live features on 2SER-FM.

Electrofringe 2007 Program Online!

The full program for Electrofringe is now online. This year sees an unprecedented diversity in the Electrofringe program, as well as a stock of brilliant and stimulating events of the calibre you’ve come to expect from the October long weekend in Newcastle. Themes include accessibility and collaboration in electronic arts, wearable art, rethought radio and new approaches to electronic music. Screen works, contemporary dance, immersive and site specific works are nestled alongside dynamic panel discussions, workshops and gigs.

International guests include Tim Hecker (Canada), Leafcutter John (UK), Sebastien Roux (France), Jason Kahn (USA) and Ralph Steinbruchel (CH) alongside local artists including Robin Fox, Machina Aux Rock, Darrin Verhagen, SpatnLoogie, Sanso-Xtro, Pimmon, Shannon O’Neill and Gail Priest, plus may more.

Head to the Electrofringe website, www.electrofringe.net to check out the program and stay tuned for further updates.

Liquid Architecture 8 :: newsletter 8 :: Tuesday 26th June, 2007

:: :: :: ABC Radio National special :: :: ::

As part of the festival on Radio National Sunday night 1st July at 8.35pm till 10pm Liquid Architecture and The Night Air present “Radiophonic Remix”. Some of Australia’s leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio.

Buttress O’Kneel remixes her favorite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut.
Rik Rue remixes a whole world of sounds and music.
][oyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio.
Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal.
And Shannon O’Neill remixes all of them.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nightair

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:: :: :: Resonant Tapestry Liquid Architecture special :: :: ::

Resonant Tapestry is an experimental radio show that interweaves music genres, taking listeners on an elaborate sonic journey.

http://www.straightup.com.au/page?n=825

This episode Migration Of The Snails celebrates the eighth coming of Australia’s premier sound-arts festival Liquid Architecture. A special thanks to Shannon O’Neill and Ben Byrne of Alias Frequencies for organising the Sydney LA8 shows. This playlist features some artists from their net release Pink Sheets - Edition One www.aliasfrequencies.org/ps

: : RESONANT TAPESTRY : :
Presented by Yun Mei & Sofie Loizou
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Liquid Architecture 8 Sydney: Festival of Sound Arts
Thursday June 28 – Saturday June 30
http://liquidarchitecture.org.au

Alias Frequencies and Performance Space present Liquid Architecture 8
at the Carriagworks from Thursday June 28 to Saturday June 30 2007.
The festival will this year feature three nights of groundbreaking
performances from local and international artists as well as an
installation program staged in the unique environs of the
Carriagework’s wonderful original architecture. International guests
include the shudder inducing French audiovisual performance group
Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine and Swiss aktionist performance
artists Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Dave Phillips.

Season Passes - $30/$25
available from Moshtix
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Full Program:

Thursday June 28 from 8pm – Gala Opening!
$10/$8

WINNER
TONY MASON-COX WITH ANN ONYMOUS
THE DANIEL GREEN TRIBUTE SHOW

+ Very Special Guests!

Friday June 29 from 8pm – Main Concert One
$15/$12

RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK (SWITZERLAND)
DAVE PHILLIPS (SWITZERLAND)
NATASHA ANDERSON (MELBOURNE)
LUCAS DARKLORD

Saturday June 30 from 8pm – Main Concert Two
$15/$12

CELLULE D’INTERVENTION METAMKINE (FRANCE)
][OYD BARRETT (BRISBANE)
ABJECT LEADER (BRISBANE)
KAMUSTA
PETER NEWMAN

+ THE NIGHT AIR: REMIX
ABC Radio National 8.35pm, Sunday July 1.
Four leading Australian sound artists (][oyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord,
Buttress O’Kneel and Rik Rue) explore the concept of the radiophonic
remix and are in turn remixed by Shannon O’Neill.

+ ‘TERMINAL’ Exhibition
at Carriageworks throughout the festival.
Artists Include:

NATASHA ANDERSON
JOKE LANZ
RIK RUE
WADE MARYNOWSKY

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I’ll be on 2SER-FM’s Fieldwork this Sunday night from 10.30pm, presenting a selection of field recordings and soundscape compositions.

Renae & I will be guest hosting Utility Fog on FBi Radio 94.5 FM this Sunday night from 10pm.

By Adam Buxton of Adam and Joe. The Adam & Joe XFM Podcast is essential listening.

I’ll be a guest this Sunday night on 2SER-FM’s Fieldwork program, playing some of my favourite field recordings and soundscape compositions, and possibly doing a live to air reprise of my train performance from the Unsound festival.