You might have noticed, it’s been a bit quiet around here lately. Well, for the last 6 months or so anyway. Something really BIG has taken up my time. For the best part of two years really… The biggest creative project of my life. I’ve been working with sound since the late 1980s, and working in radio most of my life – from the early days at 3RRR, to triple j, then on ABC Local Radio and Radio National too. Radio’s always been my “first love”. When I relocate to Berlin in 2015 as a freelance media maker (and as a newly-minted meditation teacher!) I add “podcast maker” to my suite of skills. It seems a “no brainer”. Helping set up…
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Massimo Maio moved to Berlin “for love”. Migrating from a “small and cosy” village in southwest Germany, he says that “friends, radio and art” also had a lot to do with him pulling up stumps for the German capital. Like me, Massimo has BIG LOVE for radio. It’s a fundamental part of his life and has been since he was a child. He’s also been working in the medium for many years, both as a producer and presenter, starting in the days of analogue, later embracing digital with its creative freedoms and disruptive potential. Snap! We’re also died-in-the-wool public broadcasters. Massimo and I first met in 2015 just after I moved to Berlin from Australia. I was co-teaching a two-day…
Tagged: audiowalks, audioworker, berlin, deutschlandfunkkultur, massimo maio, podcasting, radio, refugees, republica, wdr
Radio has been my first love FOREVER. I made my very first program in the mid-1980s. It was the time of gargantuan shoulder pads, John Hughes movies and elbow dancing. Thankfully by then I’d discovered ska music, black Levis and brothel creepers. In my second year of university, one lunch time I stumbled upon an “extra curricular” workshop paid for by my Student Union fees. The good folk at the Union had kindly put it on for misfits like me, desperate for distraction from what I was finding to be less-than-fulfilling paramedical “yoonee” studies. Radio production and reel-to-reel tape decks it was! Run by a guy called “Paul” (veteran radio trainer Paul Vadasz as I later found out), he was recruiting…
Tagged: berlin, megan spencer, podcast, samantha wareing, three wicked women, wasp summer, women