Amplifications

Paul Carter is Professor of Design at RMIT University, Australia. He is the author of many books including The Road to Botany Bay (1987), Living in a New Country (1992), Repressed Spaces (2002), Dark Writing (2008), Meeting Place (2013), and Places Made After Their Stories (2015).

• Prolude1. Charms2. Returns3. Rattles4. Sirens5. Echoes6. Recordings7. Voices8. CallingsCollect

This is a wonderful, exhilarating read, thoroughly original. It is personal, poetic – full of literary allusions connected to significant radio productions re-visited, re-imagined and literally remade. The text is rather like a sonic Proust meeting a John Berger for the ears, in which the themes are interwoven in order to explore the opaque layers of meaning, memory, culture and creativity within each radio artwork discussed. A tour de force!