Pronto mega edit of a short recording taken from one of the arcade tunnels beneath Sydney's Central Station. To be honest, though... procrastinating hard.

Bar Kitty in Japan. Pretend High School. 

Interviewed: Kaori Dohgase
Producer: Paper Radio

Apologies for the mix. Rush!

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Pretend Koukou

We were about to give up on the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race when we managed to get in touch with Kaori! The interview was completed with 2.5 hours left before entries closed. Our submission was a whirlwind of frozen-finger editing, and in my hazy haste, I didn't feel I did our interviewee many favours in terms of representing her ideas properly. So, while this still lacks much in the way of sound design, and won't be counted toward the competition, I've decided to spend at least a few more minutes presenting a different edit of our interview.

Thanks again to Kaori for being such a generous and kind subject!

- Jon Tjhia / Paper Radio

Pretend Koukou, draft 2 (#radiorace)

A day spa isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a think tank, and yet it’s here that Toby Fehily finds himself stepping into a darkened capsule filled with warm, salty water. With the lid tightly shut, Toby comes to his senses – in a most senseless way.

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Story: Toby Fehily
Voice: Toby Fehily
Illustration: Eirian Chapman
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Produced and engineered by Jon Tjhia (with engineering assistance from John Jacobs). Album artwork by Eirian Chapman. Executive producers Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia (Paper Radio). 

A co-commission of Paper Radio and ABC Radio National‘s Creative Audio Unit, with the support of the Ian Reed Foundation and Arts Victoria’s VicArts funding program.

Toby Fehily: helloimtoby.com/

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AM3: The Isolation-Solitude-Confinement-Happiness-Freedom Domain

Once the home of the ubiquitous KEEP QUIET sign and the archetypal shushers, libraries now serve as repurposed meeting places, infotech zones, and speakeasies. The contemporary hum of incidental noise we make in libraries is considered acceptable, unavoidable, and sometimes even outwardly encouraged – the paper rustle, the machine whirr, the echoing cough.

In the midst of all these sounds, Jon Tjhia and Oslo Davis ask: how can we still think of libraries as ‘quiet’?

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Story: Jon Tjhia and Oslo Davis
Voice: Various
Illustration: Oslo Davis
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Produced by Oslo Davis and Jon Tjhia. Engineered by Jon Tjhia. Album artwork by Oslo Davis. Executive producers Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia (Paper Radio). Thanks to Iris Anderson and George Dunford for the outro!

A co-commission of Paper Radio and ABC Radio National‘s Creative Audio Unit, with the support of the Ian Reed Foundation and Arts Victoria.

Oslo Davis: OsloDavis.com

AM4: Noise to a Minimum

In a time of repetition and assertion, repetition and assertion, questions have become rhetorical and answers unrelated. The pioneers of this practice? The residents of the fourth estate – and yes, Australian politics. At the end of a microphone, hesitation takes on the quality of uncertainty. But the power of rhetoric is far more insidious.

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Story: Jessie Borrelle
Voice: Various
Illustration: Jessie Borrelle
Sound design: chance
Produced by Jessie Borrelle and engineered by Jon Tjhia. Executive producers Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia.

A co-commission of Paper Radio and ABC Radio National‘s Creative Audio Unit, with the support of the Ian Reed Foundation and Arts Victoria’s VicArts funding program.

* Source audio: Australian Federal Parliament Question Time – the House of Representatives and the Senate

AM5: Deliberation

Watch the accompanying Sculpture by the Sea slideshow here: http://www.paperradio.net/fm/the-art-of-art

Forget minimalism. There’s a new kid on the block: hypotheticalism.

Grounded in complex ideas and elegant concepts, it’s a movement that’s challenging the way we think about visual art and what, exactly, constitutes an artwork. But is it more style than substance?

The second part of this special feature focuses on two leading local exponents of hypotheticalism – Anna Barclay and Damien Lee. Barclay talks to us about her contentious sculpture, ‘The Role of Sight in the Age of its Metaphysical Reproducibility’, while Lee details his reappropriation of colonial imagery for ‘Untended Meadow’.

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Story: Aden Rolfe
Voice: Micah Demmert, Clare Redenbach, Waleed Aly
Illustration: Brian Duong
Sound design: Nick van Cuylenburg
Produced by Jessie Borrelle. Sound engineering by Miyuki Jokiranta. Album artwork by Brian Duong. Video by Jon Tjhia.

Executive producers Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia.

A co-commission of Paper Radio and ABC Radio National‘s Creative Audio Unit, with the support of the Ian Reed Foundation and Arts Victoria’s VicArts funding program.


FM8: The Art of Art

By some estimates, there are as many as 150 ‘big things’ strewn across Australia. There’s the Big Banana, the Big Merino and even the Big Magic Mushroom. In this story, Ballina’s Big Prawn casts a long shadow over the imagination of a young girl, as she hits the road in search of the mythical crustacean of her childhood.

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Story: Katia Pase
Voice: Katia Pase
Illustration: Sonia Kretschmar
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Produced and engineered by Jon Tjhia (with engineering assistance from Richard Girvan). Additional voice by Gemma Rayner. Album artwork by Sonia Kretschmar. Executive producers Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia.

A co-commission of Paper Radio and ABC Radio National‘s Creative Audio Unit, with the support of the Ian Reed Foundation and Arts Victoria’s VicArts funding program.

FM9: The Big Prawn

We noticed something funny in episode 32 of the Tape podcast. Something … familiar.

P - T-a - A-p - P-e - E-r - A-a - D-d - I-i - O-o

In a surreal pop renovation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, The Sound Of Music fuses familiar and familial characters as it grapples with who we are, and become, in love.

The Sound of Music is taken from Tom Cho’s book Look Who’s Morphing, published by Giramondo.

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Story: Tom Cho
Voice: Tom Cho
Illustration: Marc Martin
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Produced by Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia. Thanks to Alex Nosek and Henry Winkler for the loan of their voices. Tom Cho · http://tomcho.com/ Giramondo Publishing · http://www.giramondopublishing.com/

FM4: The Sound of Music

In his ongoing wrestling match with the Cantonese language, Benjamin Law charts his attempts to master his family’s mother tongue.

Tone Deaf is an extract from Benjamin Law’s book The Family Law, published by Black Inc.

Please note: this podcast contains explicit language.

Story: Benjamin Law
Voice: Benjamin Law
Illustration: Polly Dedman
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Engineered and edited by Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia; additional voice by Long Tjhia. An excerpt was aired on FBi’s ‘All The Best’ on 2 July 2011. 

Benjamin Law · http://www.benjamin-law.com/ 
Black Inc Books · http://www.blackincbooks.com/

AM1: Tone Deaf

Paper Radio is an audio journal based in Melbourne, Australia, that takes stories by Antipodean writers and fuses them into a unique alloy of narrative, sound design and illustration.

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