This week, off on tour through Southwest Victoria performing a show called Underscore - playing electro-acoustic soundscapes for authors Jane Clifton and Wayne Macauley with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics. It's gonna be cold. Maybe I'd better knit another one of these for Sally?

In some rare good news: artist-run music platform Subvert.fm is now live! If you've been looking for an alternative to extractive streaming platforms check this out. It's a co-op and there are already more than 20,000 artists/bands signed up.

A podcast recommendation: What Takes Root. Latest episode - resistance through sound and storytelling (not the corporate variety, the real grounded kind).

How a Bolivian Storyteller Uses Sound as a Tool for Resistance and Education

Podcast Episode · What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation · 24 March · 27min

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@dusttodigital.bsky.social Dust-to-Digital radio is bringing joy to my heart. Check it out!

Adding some cello & mandolin to Sally Ford & the Idiomatics’ live original soundtrack to Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1917) this Wednesday 18 Feb at Fed Square Melbourne, 8 pm free entry! Bring something to sit on or come early to grab a beanbag…

Making my way systematically though Selects podcast eps and keep being blown away by the audio gems they’re putting back into circulation. For example the Kitchen Sisters piece on Tony Schwartz selects.supportingcast.fm/listen/tony-...

Powerful stuff in this @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social episode - the voices of young people talking to Samantha Brown. I’m not a crier but I had a big lump in my throat listening to this. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

Seeking Small True Things

Podcast Episode · Sound School Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 33m

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Wow, this @radiolab.bsky.social episode took an unexpected turn! Extraordinary story - in which punk rock, politics and public health collide podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

Stories of dodgy tycoon Christopher Skase peppered my adolescence and early 20s. Fascinated to hear the full(er) story on ABC RN Rewind - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

01 | The Confidence Man

Podcast Episode · ABC Rewind · 19/09/2025 · 1 sec

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Bonus ep of Choc-tops and Cassata out now - on the Australian classic film ‘The Castle’ being actually quite Italian ! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Choc-tops and Cassata - Bonus Episode - The Castle: the most quintessential Australian movie with an Italian vibe?

Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · 16/09/2025 · Bonus · 57m

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Just pressed submit on an @audioflux.bsky.social entry - of course the idea came at the last minute but I decided to go with it anyway because it felt real! Having these prompts to make new work is really helpful, gotta say!

Recommendation: ‘Empire’ podcast eps on the Suez Crisis - a fantastic guest in historian @alexvont.bsky.social Covers so much fascinating territory in a very engaging way. From Egypt to Palestine to… Hungary, not to mention France, Britain, Israel and the US. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

Ep 4 of Choc-tops and Cassata out now, taking a trip from a small theatre in Naples to Melbourne cinemas screening Italian movies in the 60s - 70s to Italian and French film festivals and the popularisation of prosecco in Australia. Local cinema history from the horse’s mouth!

Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia

Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia

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Out today! Had a blast adding cello to this album… recorded at Rolling Stock Studio by Myles Mumford - have a listen sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

Every Happiness, by Sally Ford and the Idiomatics

9 track album

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Time travel back to 1970s Melbourne and an Italian film night at the grand Metropolitan cinema with ep 2 of our Choc-tops and Cassata podcast tinyurl.com/2nvdkf2j

Episode 19: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 2: Saturday Nights at the Metropolitan: Melbourne’s Italian Cinema Experience

Episode 19: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 2: Saturday Nights at the Metropolitan: Melbourne’s Italian Cinema Experience

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“That which no canvas could withstand” - a gorgeous piece on the Beaufort Scale on BBC podcast Illuminated, one of my favourite shows. Beautiful writing, lessons in editing and sound design. Engages all the senses. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

Sea Like a Mirror

Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 29/06/2025 · 29m

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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v

Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene

Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene

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For Italian speakers: an interview on SBS radio about the podcast on Italian language cinema in Melbourne town that we’re launching later this month … www.sbs.com.au/language/ita...

I cinema italiani a Melbourne, una storia d'amore e nostalgia nella comunità italiana degli anni '50

Il podcast "Choc-tops and Cassata" ricostruisce il periodo d'oro dei cinema italiani a Melbourne, dagli anni '50 fino alla loro scomparsa a metà degli anni '80.

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Wandering down the aisles of Melbourne’s lost Italian language cinemas, cassata balanced precariously on a paper plate… I’ve enjoyed being part of the research & production team for this new podcast. Teaser here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Choc-tops and Cassata - Teaser

Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · S1 Trailer · 1m

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I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory

A curation of voices … here is an audio piece I made out of #oralhistory collections on university student life in Melbourne in the first half of the 20th century. Listen at soundcloud.com/user-1152745...

Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social

An observation from my 18-y-old about social media during the election campaign. He reckons that ALP smashed the LNP in memes etc - and he’s not particularly political (as in: doesn’t read the news). This might actually be more significant than we might imagine in shaping the election results.

Ok so I’m very relieved by the Australian election result but I also want to acknowledge that opposition leader Dutton (who lost his seat!) has *accepted* the loss and is NOT doing a Trump sore loser act.

Can’t reply directly to these unsolicited texts during the Australian federal election campaign so sharing my response here instead. Background for people outside Australia: a Trump-influenced party is trying to foment division over the practice of First Nations Welcome to Country ceremonies.

If you were thinking about it but haven’t … it’s worth a go!

Australian Academy of the Humanities@humanitiesau.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Closing soon! Applications for the 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowships close 5 May 2025. www.library.gov.au/research/fel...

Made the shortlist for the Whickers podcast pitch awards! I’ve been working on this project about Mavis Robertson for a couple of years now & the thought that I *might* get the funds to make the series I first imagined back in 2022 is a bit thrilling. & if I don’t win I feel encouraged anyway

Melburnians: Looking for something to do this arvo? Come down to the Lowie (Lomond Hotel) in East Brunswick - I’m playing cello with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics starting from 5 pm - lush melancholic electronica with some organica…

Tonight! In St Kilda - playing sweet original tunes - leaning towards sad but I reckon you’ll walk away in better spirits than when you arrived… tix via sunshinetip.xyz/shows