This track is from the album Journeys: People, Places and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dimond

Blues Jog

De-Ja-Vu in Nishi-Ogikubo

The Intellectual

Greg by Fluoro

Urban White House

Gerard Doustraat 8b

I am a musician and a Ham. ABC commissioned this experimental piece on Alan Shawsmith VK4SS (now silent key). This work was broadcast on ABC Classic FM as part of their “Art of Radio” series celebrating the ABC's 70th Anniversary. Radio is a mass medium with public and commercial broadcasting sectors. But there's also amateur, or ham radio which connects many individuals to a magic world of signals and contacts.
VK4SS is a sound collage dedicated to the world of amateur radio and its practitioners. Alan Shawsmith was a Brisbane-based radio amateur with about seven decades of experience when I interviewed him in 2001-2002, and his recollections and stories are documented in this collage. Enjoy.

Jonathan Dimond