Inland and The Frenchman's garden

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Miller, GY
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-06T04:05:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-06T04:05:17Z
dc.date.issued	2000
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33120
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	My submission for the degree of Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, presents and discusses two radiophonic works made for broadcast on The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM. These are ‘Inland, and The Frenchman’s Garden’, both of which explore a listening approach to the Australian landscape. There are three components to the submission. The first consists of compact disc recordings of the works. They were written, composed, produced and partially performed by myself and include location recordings I made around the inland regions of Australia, alongside performances by actors and musicians. ‘Inland’ tells stories of mythic figures moving through a vast, Australian space, suspended in a landscape which is continually shifting and metamorphosing. ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’ is a radio documentary of an eccentric French botanist named Albert De Lestang, who planted a botanic garden in the Gulf Country of far north-western Queensland, in the first half of the 20th Century. The second component of the submission is a written version of each work. Neither is intended to accompany the listening to the radiophonic version. This version of ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’ is a record of a radio production. But the text of ‘Inland’ is intended to be read as a fictional work and a piece of writing in its own right. Thus I have indicated character and documentary names in ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’, but not in ‘Inland’. Instead variations in tempo and tone are shown through indentations and italics. References to sounds the reader will hear are indicated on the left hand page in both scripts. The third component of the submission is an essay, ‘Composing Radio, Writing Sound’, which examines the development of an artistic approach through ‘Inland’ and ‘The Frenchman's Garden’, in the context of radiophonic practices as they are found in the Audio Arts Department of ABC Radio. The programs were produced in this department, and its working style was a considerable influence upon the productions. I look at some guiding principles- the radiophonic diary and mimesis and the body – and consider these through the work of four other works made for this department. I also examine the approaches of composers to radio and the 'writing with sound' tradition, and I discuss place and space as they are manifested in the work of contemporary Australian radio makers. In so doing I find a place for my own work within the Australian radiophonic milieu.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (MA)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
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dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	Radiophonic works made for broadcast.	en
dc.subject	The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM.	en
dc.subject	Listening approach to the Australian landscape.	en
dc.subject	Compact disc recordings of the work.	en
dc.subject	"Inland" tells stories of mythic figures.	en
dc.subject	"The Frenchman's garden" is a radio documentary.	en
dc.subject	Albert De Lestang, French botanist.	en
dc.subject	Essay "Composing radio, writing sound".	en
dc.subject	Three components of the submission.	en
dc.title	Inland and The Frenchman's garden	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

My submission for the degree of Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, presents and discusses two radiophonic works made for broadcast on The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM. These are ‘Inland, and The Frenchman’s Garden’, both of which explore a listening approach to the Australian landscape. There are three components to the submission. The first consists of compact disc recordings of the works. They were written, composed, produced and partially performed by myself and include location recordings I made around the inland regions of Australia, alongside performances by actors and musicians. ‘Inland’ tells stories of mythic figures moving through a vast, Australian space, suspended in a landscape which is continually shifting and metamorphosing. ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’ is a radio documentary of an eccentric French botanist named Albert De Lestang, who planted a botanic garden in the Gulf Country of far north-western Queensland, in the first half of the 20th Century. The second component of the submission is a written version of each work. Neither is intended to accompany the listening to the radiophonic version. This version of ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’ is a record of a radio production. But the text of ‘Inland’ is intended to be read as a fictional work and a piece of writing in its own right. Thus I have indicated character and documentary names in ‘The Frenchman’s Garden’, but not in ‘Inland’. Instead variations in tempo and tone are shown through indentations and italics. References to sounds the reader will hear are indicated on the left hand page in both scripts. The third component of the submission is an essay, ‘Composing Radio, Writing Sound’, which examines the development of an artistic approach through ‘Inland’ and ‘The Frenchman's Garden’, in the context of radiophonic practices as they are found in the Audio Arts Department of ABC Radio. The programs were produced in this department, and its working style was a considerable influence upon the productions. I look at some guiding principles- the radiophonic diary and mimesis and the body – and consider these through the work of four other works made for this department. I also examine the approaches of composers to radio and the 'writing with sound' tradition, and I discuss place and space as they are manifested in the work of contemporary Australian radio makers. In so doing I find a place for my own work within the Australian radiophonic milieu.

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