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DISASTERS, HOMESICKNESS AND RADIO: AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS MEADOWCROFT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2022

Matthew Shlomowitz
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Abstract

In this interview the composer Thomas Meadowcroft discusses his radiophonic work Talkback Burnback, from its genesis and source material to its assembly. The work is placed in the wider context of Meadowcroft's earlier radiophonic works, Song Buslines (2013) and Moving Home (2016), and considered in relation to the different traditions of radiophonic works, sound art, podcasts and the Hörspiel.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Tempo , Volume 76 , Issue 300 , April 2022 , pp. 69 - 73
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

1 Thomas Meadowcroft, Talkback Burnback, first broadcast 8 October 2021, ‘Klangkunst’, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klangkunst-australiens-jahrhundert-feuer-talkback-burnback.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=500595, accessed 5 November 2021.

2 Robert Ashley, Automatic Writing. 1979, Lovely Music, LCD1002.

3 Sontag, Susan, ‘The Imagination of Disaster’, Against Interpretation (New York: Picador, 1965), pp. 209–25Google Scholar.

4 Thomas Meadowcroft, Moving Homes, first broadcast 4 March 2016, ‘Soundproof’, ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/soundproof/moving-homes/7218294, accessed 2 November 2021.

5 Thomas Meadowcroft, Song Buslines, first broadcast 30 August 2013, ‘Klangkunst’, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, http://cdn.radio.de/audio/dkkultur/featurezumnachhoeren/song-buslines.mp3, accessed 2 November 2021.

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