July 2010
3 posts
19th July 2010 - An Awkward Pause is moving!
After setting it up live on-air a couple of weeks ago, An Awkward Pause is officially moving to our new home at:
www.anawkwardpause.org
Check us out there for more insanity!
- Cade and David
12th July 2010 - Shoegaze and HIV
Tonight we were talking about the recent news about antibodies for HIV found in the blood of one ‘Donor 45’. For more information, check out News-Medical.net, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times or US News.
We also heard lots of awesome music, courtesy of Cade - in particular, the new School of Seven Bells record and a track by Thom Yorke from Ciao, My Shining Star: The Songs of...
5th July 2010 - Randomness Central
Tonight we were talking about George Prochnik’s book In Pursuit of Silence; Listening for Meaning in a world of Noise, and reading his blog about soldiers with hearing loss.
We also, live on radio, registered our new domain name - anawkwardpause.org!
The Astor Theatre, in Melbourne’s St Kilda, are putting on The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday 9th June, at 8pm. If you’re...
June 2010
4 posts
david byrne talks architecture and music,...
last night was cade’s first show in nearly four months.
the show opened with a haunting track entitled Mr. Petersen by Seattle’s Mike Genius, aka Perfume Genius.
he’s described by The Guardian’s Tim Jonze as:
A 26-year-old bedroom balladeer whose intimate, crackle-laden piano pieces sound like Anthony Hegarty getting a glo-fi makeover.
to me, Perfume Genius...
A recording of our show from the 7th of June 2010,...
14th June 2010 - On The Shoulders of Giants
Tonight’s show was all about cover versions and reinventions. We heard:
ABC News Theme - Pendulum
Tainted Love - Max Raabe und das Palast Orchester
Puttin’ On The Ritz - Shiny Toy Guns
Crazy - Alanis Morisette
Our House - Angie Hart
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Amanda Palmer
High & Dry - Jamie Cullum
7th June 2010 - On balance...
Tonight, we talked about mental illness, beginning with Bad Habit by The Dresden Dolls and thinking about Childhood Depression and Daniel’s Story.
After listening to I Miss The Mountains, from Next To Normal, we discussed the new Australian invention EVestG, or Electrovestibulography, coming out of Monash University. Check them out on ABC’s The New Inventors!
Finally, after hearing...
May 2010
3 posts
17 May 2010 - IDAHO
Tonight’s show featured protest music from the 70’s until today, including:
Glad to be Gay - Tom Robinson Band
Radical - Catie Curtis
In or Out - Ani DiFranco
It’s Alright - Indigo Girls
Goddamned - Jay Brannan
I Ain’t Afraid - Holly Near
No Clause 28 - Boy George
The Song to Sing - Labi Siffre
Why Isn’t Love Enough - Labi Siffre
Matthew - Janis Ian
Love...
10th May 2010 - For Free: Creative Commons and...
Tonight’s show kicked off with a TED talk by Yochai Benkler called on the new open-source economics, which is available on the TED web site.
You then heard several songs from the ccMixter service, including:
I Want You - copperhead
James Brown d’funk (Lets go, Bounce) - texasradiofish
Supergood - colab
A Tribute to Makkross - BOCrew
Then, we heard Symphony of Res by ChristineK,...
3rd May 2010 - Bouncing Around the World
Tonight’s show featured music from all around the world:
Norway: Skambankt - Tyster
Turkey: Mor ve Ötesi - Yaz Yaz Yaz
Argentina: Catupecu Machu - Plan B
Italy: Tiromancino - Quasi 40
Egypt: Koor - Sketnalo
Bosnia/USA: Kultur Shock - Sarajevo
France: Pleymo - Je Regrette
Iran: Karma - Call Me
Estonia: Ursula - Tiffer
Israel: Ivri Lider - Nisim
Haiti: Clinton Benoit - Funky Konpa
...
April 2010
3 posts
26th April 2010 - Anna Donald; Requiem
Tonight’s show featured:
Agnus Dei - Requiem - Johannes Ockeghem
Requiem Aeternam: Requiem Aeternam - War Requiem - Benjamin Britten
Graduale - Requiem - Antonín Dvořák
Dies Irae - Requiem Mass in D - Guiseppe Verdi
Rex Tremendae - A Polish Requiem - Krzysztof Pendrecki
Domine Jesu Christe - Requiem for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ - Frank Martin
Pie Jesu - Requiem - Maurice...
19th April 2010 - Not So Straight
Apologies for the late posting of this one! We’ll try and get them up sooner in the future.
On the show, you heard Li, Stephen and Andrew, talking about the release of Not So Straight, a project of the Yak group and funded by Family Planning Victoria. More information about the DVD is available here, or click here to order a copy.
Yak meets every First and Third Friday of the month at 5pm...
12th April 2010 - The Easter Show
Our original piece featured the work of Junior85. You can find out more about his work at the Free Music Archive, on Myspace or on Twitter.
We also featured clips from Richard Dawkins: How to Justify a Genocide and Margaret Cho’s Assassin. The other voices you heard were those of Stephen Anderson, Craig Burnett and Johnathan Nastou.
The full playlist was:
O Vos Omnes - Tenebrae...
July 2009
1 post
the podcast is here!
remember when I said we’d have a podcast? after a lot of messing about and a flurry of email back and forth, it’s finally here.
if you use iTunes, click here to subscribe immediately!
in other news, An Awkward Pause has moved to a 1 hour 10PM timeslot. which means i’m finished before i even start, and in bed much, much earlier. with all this thesis work, i certainly need it.
...
February 2009
1 post
the black plague+galapagoose.
a danse macabre depiction of the black plague.
two weeks ago, a good friend of mine named Amanda joined me to talk for an hour and a half about the black plague. the week before that – the last week of january – trent gill aka galapagoose performed an awkward pause’s first live set.
right now, i’m on another beautiful japanese music streak. please tune in!
this blog has been a...
November 2008
1 post
episode 8: new-wave old-wave (nov. 03, 2008)
something strange happened and deleted a lot of my blog posts. apologies.
thanks for listening tonight and for the sms messages and emails. the first hour tonight was dedicated to orson wells and the mercury theatre on the air with the immortal sherlock holmes, first broadcast in 1938. after the intermission, part two was all about new wave and early punk.
here was tonight’s playlist.
...
September 2008
2 posts
episode 2: post rocking...! ( 8 sept 2008 )
thank you for listening tonight. i hope you liked it, slow late night radio is kind of my favourite. sleep well.
tonight we explored post rock music. since post rock musicians tend to have a fetish for powerlines, here is a picture of some powerlines.
Glass Museum by Tortoise (Millions Now Living Will Never Die)
East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (F♯A♯∞)
There’s An Oil Tanker...
episode 1: japan me up (sept. 1, 2008)
hello.
sorry for the delay! i hope you enjoyed last night’s show about post-ww2 japanese music.
tracklist
haro no umi by sharp five, (haro no umi)
haruyo koi by happy end, (self titled record)
part one by miyako ochi, (oz days live)
woo hoo by the 5, 6, 7, 8’s (bomb the rocks / kill bill soundtrack)
ode to taurus by hiro yanagida (hirocosmos)
rockomotion by hiro yanagida...
August 2008
1 post
we're off..!
the show got approved and all that and tonight it makes it’s debut. i’ll be talking about post-ww2 japanese music and giving a very brief history and some examples of various wonderful products from everybody’s favourite robot-and-monster-riddled island, Japan. be sure to tune in. it’ll be interesting and fun.