Shannon O’Neill

My five minute radiophonic piece ‘Figure/Network’ was played on ABC Classic FM’s New Music Up Late last Saturday. It’ll be online for another couple of days, if you’re prepared to listen to a Real Audio stream. It should also appear sometime soon on Radio National’s The Night Air.

Next Tuesday night on 2SER’s Methodology I’ll be improvising live to air with Jaime Fennelly and Clayton Thomas. I’ll be playing Korg MS-20.

This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It’s my favourite Australian festival - if you’ve never been, you should check it out. I’ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.

is a brilliant Australian sound collagist and radio producer, working in a similar style to Negativland, but with a more overtly political edge.

I first heard her work a few months ago on FBi Radio’s Sunday Night at the Movies, and found out today that she’s also participating in ABC Radio’s Figure in a Soundscape project that I’m involved in, so I finally got hold of her URLs.

Apart from her MySpace page, some of her work is available on CD and for download from the InterWebMegaLink. Highly recommended! Especially if you like the League of Infinite Justice.

i’ll be hosting utility fog this sunday. hopefully adrian will be joining me. i’ll probably play some dubstep, among other things…

Short notice, but I just found out about this:

Actor Network Theory - special workshop
The Institute for Sustainable Futures will hold a special roundtable/workshop on Actor Network Theory (ANT)
on Wednesday 19th July
from 11am till 1pm
at Level 11, Building 10, Jones Street
[University of Technology, Sydney - City Campus]

The aim of the workshop is to share the accumulated wisdom of various ISF PhD students, a guest from Electrical Engineering, Robert Jarman and adjunct Prof. Paul Bryce, who have used ANT, and to enable others to take the first steps in seeing what ANT might offer their research approach.

ANT offers a way of observing and analysing a process of change and, in combination with action research, ANT can identify and guide interventions to effect change. (Bryce & Yasukawa 2004).

Come along if you wish to learn more.
If you would like more information or to RSVP, please email Juliet Willetts (Juliet.Willetts@uts.edu.au) by COB Tuesday 18th.

Although I’m crazy busy at the moment, preparing to travel etc., I’m going to attend this. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how ANT, as well as D&G’s ‘assemblage’ can be used for theorizing appropriation. Reading Slack & Wise’s Culture & Technology a while ago confirmed that these should be fruitful areas to explore.

Also I’ve been commissioned by the ABC to make a five minute piece on the theme of ‘figure in a soundscape’ as part of a new radiophonic initiative. My piece is provisionally called ‘Figure/Network’ - it will engage with some of these theoretical concerns through sound, using granular synthesis, and generative, patch-based processes. It’s due in a couple of weeks (the day before I leave!) so this workshop is timely.

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Now that I’m a student at UoW, I have a 90 minute (each way) train journey from Sydney. And as part of my current health & fitness regimen, I also go for a long (at least 40 min) walk every day.

It has been ages since I last owned a walkman, but the time has come. I’ve been looking at iPods but *fukc* they’re expensive. And they’re a bit lacking in features.

Ideally I want something that has:

at least 20GB storage
can play mp3/aac/wav
can store other file types
includes an AM/FM radio (AM is particularly important, for Radio National/NewsRadio/Cricket).

Ability to record audio would be very nice but is not essential.
Colour screen/video (esp. xvid) playback - nice but not important.

Price should be well under AUD500

I want to get something a.s.a.p. but there are so many products out there, and I’ve yet to find one that meets my requirements, so any suggestions (including stores) would be much appreciated. TIA.

These were given out at Max’s funeral. I wanted to post them earlier, but my scanner stopped working and I’ve only just got a new one.

Click on this image to read the story of an amazing life:

Max Keogh, one of the founders of 2MBS-FM, has died.

Max was a pioneer of community broadcasting in Australia. I first met him in early 1991, when I was studying journalism. He taught the communications law part of the course. I was immediately drawn to this eccentric old fellow.

Shortly afterwards, I started broadcasting on MBS, and would often see him at the station late at night. We would have interesting conversations while smoking outside the front of the station. I have fond memories of him smoking his pipe.

He was one of the few ‘old guard’ at MBS who was supportive of contemporary music, and I admired his strong commitment to keeping MBS as independent as possible, something which unfortunately made him a more marginal figure in recent years. But every year, at the station’s AGM, he would step up to the mic and tell everyone exactly what he thought.

Farewell, Max, I’ll miss you. The Australian music and radio communities will be much poorer without you.

The funeral will be at 12.30pm on Tuesday January 24 at the East Chapel of Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney.

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