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

first broadcast: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2021 — commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur, with additional support from Create 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

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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 recorded every night at the peak of the fires. These recordings were then later edited and compiled into different themes \u2014 waiting, radio breakdowns, ‘going home’, fires out of control etc. \u2014 which make up a narrative of multiple voices in the piece. <\/em>(TM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Talkback Burnback first broadcast: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2021 — commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur, with additional support from Create 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}