The Public Body & ‘The Days are as Grass’-Arts Monday

The Public Body co-curator, Talia Linz, and Jane Edwina Seymour, Director of ‘The Days are as Grass’, are my guests today. The Public Body .01 explores the sexualized body and, in particular, the types of sexualized bodies that proliferate in the public sphere today – high key, orgasmic, debased, agitated, violent but also self-empowered, vulnerable, […]

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Album of the week – Family Tree by Kylie Auldist

  ‘Family Tree’ by Kylie Audits is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. If you like it funky then you are going to be blasting this record, coming out of Melbourne Kylie Auldist is up there with the creme de la creme when it comes Australian soul and funk artists. With a career that has […]

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Nena Salobir on The Dialogue Wednesday 28 September

Artist Nena Salobir is engaged in a fascinating project called “Self Portrait in Society”, where she draws a perfect stranger and asks them to draw her at the same time. Nena visits the Eastside studios to chat with Claudia Chan Shaw on The Dialogue. Throughout their conversation Nena sketches, while Claudia paints the picture of […]

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Interview with Malian guitarist, Moussa Diakite on Dial Afrika Wed. 28

  Malian guitarist Moussa Diakite is synonymous as being one of  West Africa’s “Golden Era’s” most influential, respected and leading guitar players. Moussa is also known by the name Doncomodja, which translates to ‘Gift From God’. His ‘crossover’ style is a rich fusion of Malian Traditional Folk-lore and western contemporary styles such as Blues, Jazz, Classical, Funk, Rock n’ Roll […]

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Boiling Point Smithsonian Interview Series_Graham Zemunik

Enjoy this 8minute interview with Australian post doctoral fellow (his 2nd PhD!), Dr Graham Zemunik. Who is Dr Zemunik? Graham is currently based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and specialises in soil driven vegetation assemblages. His research examines how soil elements, especially phosphorus, might drive tropical tree growth. What has he found? In the […]

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Jazz Made In Australia- 26 September 2016- Memory of Elements+ Gould & Nock

Memory of Elements is a Perth based band which seems to be a cooperative without one particular leader with compositions being contributed by all members who are all leaders in their own right. They are Jamie Oehlers, saxophones; Carl Mackey, saxophones; Tom O’Halloran, piano; Simon Jeans, guitar; Pete Jeavons, double bass; and Ben Vanderwal, drums. […]

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The C Word – from Clover to Schumer to Alphamama

A pretty ballsy show this week! as we decided NOT to dodge the C word. It just kept raising its pretty head. First up – apparently the Sydney business community decided to put its money on the big C over the weekend. Clover Moore’s detractors must have been cursing to find themselves in the minority. […]

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Album of the week – In My Room by Jacob Collier

“In My Room” by Jacob Collier is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. The album that we are featuring across the station this week comes from afar as we give some well deserved attention to a young man from London. This young man has already mastered some skills that would take others a lifetime to achieve, […]

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The Art of Politics and Artists in Residence podcast

Arts Thursday 8 September podcast On Thursday 8 September, with Maisy Stapleton, the focus was on arts and its role in politics.           I spoke to Arts Party Leader and co-founder PJ Collins to find out why the party was formed, its results in the recent federal elections and where it’s […]

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