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Talkback Burnback<\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

first broadcast: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2021 — commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur, with additional support from Create NSW, Bundanon Trust and the National Trust NSW — CB radio voices: members of the New South Wales Rural Fire Serice (NSW RFS) \/ pedal steel guitar: Graham Griffith \/ children\u2019s voices: Agnes \/ bird: \u2018Albert\u2019, the long-billed corella \/ synthesizers, electronics and realisation: Thomas Meadowcroft \/ sound engineer: Thomas Monnnerjahn \/ producer: Marcus Gammel —  duration 25′ \/ 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No dramas. We’ll just see how we go.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talkback Burnback is part of a series of works for radio which explore cultural memory in early twenty-first century regional Australia. Here, citizens band radio\u2019 (CB radio) recordings of firefighters engaged in fighting the Australian \u2018Black Summer\u2019 bush fires of 2019\/20 were made at night during the fires. These recordings were then edited and compiled into different themes \u2014 waiting, radio breakdowns, finishing work, observing flames<\/em> etc. \u2014 and make up a narrative of multiple voices in the piece. <\/em>(TM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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