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Marrying Out Part 1 - Not In Front Of The Altar, Siobhan Mchugh
Marrying Out Part 1 - Not In Front Of The Altar, Siobhan Mchugh
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
MARRYING OUT: 11 and 18 October 2009 Hindsight, ABC Radio National Part 1, 11 October 2009
A woman is denied a deathbed visit to her father. A couple’s honeymoon vehicle runs off the road, sabotaged. Children practise their faith in secret. A quarter of the population is barred from applying for jobs.
The cause: religion. The place: Australia. The time: until the 1960s.
Just two generations ago, before the term multiculturalism became the norm, Australian society was polarised between two main groups: Protestants and Catholics. Religion was code for identity, with tensions fuelled by historical grievances that dated back long …
Do You Suppose He Didn't Know What He Was Doing? On 'Not Knowing' And Computer Music, Warren A. Burt
Do You Suppose He Didn't Know What He Was Doing? On 'Not Knowing' And Computer Music, Warren A. Burt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Is there a place in computer music for not knowing? Is there a place in computer music for suspension, or transcendence of the ego? Is there a place in computer music for ecstatic expression? Is there a place in computer music for non-mediated creation? Is there a way in which creating computer music can be a spiritual practice? This short essay asks these questions in a non-linear manner, not so much as a means of proposing answers, but as a means of suggesting problems to be dealt with.