The Weirding Module - So Called Australia 01.11.2025

The continent of Australia ≠ the country or its government, in fact before colonisation it consisted of more than 200 language groups and with varying similarities and affiliations. The show takes a quick trip around some of the contemporary vocal and oral practices of the continent, beginning as it should with Indigenous contemporary songs these ones in Yindjibarndi, Yolngu and Butchulla languages – contemporary versions of the songs that were the main form of knowledge keeping pre-colonisation. From there we take in some Indigenous poetry in English. The various senses of defiance, anger and grief in these works is contrasted to the the mumbled and muffled sounds from the non-indigenous works in the second half of the show. These seem comparatively awkward in their ...

This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio.
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