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7/1/2012 | Download File (49.74 MB)

To celebrate the creation of the ABC as our national broadcaster on the first of July, 1932 the Night Air team ransacks Aunty’s archives for moments of hilarity, horror, and historical ephemerality.

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Motion  play >

Motion

1/27/2013 | Download File (49.28 MB) - right click to download

We get ourselves in Motion with talks about the elegance and precision of the ballet and the design of the propeller.

A Spoken Word Remix on the 44th President of the United States of America  play >

A Spoken Word Remix on the 44th President of the United States of America

1/20/2013 | Download File (49.28 MB) - right click to download

Recorded live in an off-Broadway theatre in New York City, Darian Dauchan’s award-winning work chronicles the period of Barack Obama’s candidacy, to presidency, to the present day – at the time of his second inauguration. The piece is a rhetorical conversation between African-American performance poet, Darian Dauchan, and Barack Obama, now the 45th President of the United States. This solo show consists of live-looped songs, beat-boxing and a collage of satirical poems and presidential soundbites.

Sun Ra: Space ambassador  play >

Sun Ra: Space ambassador

1/13/2013 | Download File (49.28 MB) - right click to download

Sun Ra's visionary Afro Futurist project, begun in the 1940s, provided fuel for many strands of musical culture: he stood with one foot in rhythm and blues, one foot in free jazz and two hands stretched out into space.

Worn in  play >

Worn in

1/6/2013 | Download File (49.28 MB) - right click to download

These days it's like products, and even humans have their own 'refresh' buttons. The latest model is always on offer. Happy, shiny people everywhere. But permanent 'nowness' can't last - the cracks start to show, eventually nature subsumes culture and everything falls to bits. The Night Air searches for the 'melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things', what the Japanese might call 'wabi sabi'. It's the pleasure of the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete. It's when the new gets, if not worn out, then thoroughly worn in...

Resonate  play >

Resonate

12/30/2012 | Download File (49.28 MB) - right click to download

Everything, including you and me has a resonant frequency!

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