Five of Australia’s leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio.

• Lloyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio
• Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal
• Buttress O’Kneel remixes her favourite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut
• Rik Rue remixes his own history of remixing
• Shannon O’Neill remixes all of the above.

Radio Metamix was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s The Night Air on July 1, 2007, as part of the Liquid Architecture festival.

Tracklist

01 Radio Metamix 50:59

Total time: 50:59

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Made by Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O’Kneel, Rik Rue and Shannon O’Neill, 2007.

Produced by Shannon O’Neill.

Image by Buttress O’Kneel.

Thanks to John Jacobs and The Night Air.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF040

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Thoughts Flash comprises two hallucinatory tracks from Wake Up and Listen’s ill-fated debut album. Recorded in the late 1990s but never released, the album featured a number of studio recordings, as well as edited excerpts from WUAL’s long-running radio show on 2MBS-FM. The technique of condensing extended radio improvisations into relatively short pieces, as on these two tracks, suggested a fruitful direction for the duo, however Bertram and O’Neill spent the following years focusing on other projects, with WUAL continuing primarily as a live act (their 2001 mini-album Mustard Keanu notwithstanding). WUAL’s recorded archives are nevertheless extensive, and it is likely that more material will be published on their website as well as on future Alias Frequencies releases.

Tracklist

01 Thoughts Flash 5:38
02 Children Speak Backwards 3:18

Total time: 8:56

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Made by Adrian Bertram and Shannon O’Neill, Sydney, 1998-1999. Bass and CDs on Children Speak Backwards by Jasmine Guffond.

Thoughts Flash was included on the compilation CDR Static Museum Two in 2001.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF029

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Guest Programmer
Shannon O’Neill (Sydney)

http://shannon-oneill.net

Shannon O’Neill is an artist, academic and curator who works across music, radio, Internet, performance, text, video and installation. Shannon works as a lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney and is currently completing a PhD in music at the University of Wollongong.

He has been a director of the Electrofringe festival (2001-02), the Disorientation series (2003), and the Sydney Liquid Architecture festival (2005-07) and is the founder of Alias Frequencies, an organisation that promotes and publishes music and media art.

He contributed a chapter to the new book Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia.

This edition of ELEVENELEVEN features all Australian artists.

Playlist
1.Emma Russack – Death Heads
2. Atone – Cockroach [Brutalism / Shebeen/Basscode]
3. Loom – sss nail shell
4. DJ Do – Adolf a Carrot? [Mangled by the Tool of Satan]
5. Itch-E & Scratch-E – Bastards [Irritable / Volition]
6. The Process Void – Comfort Zone [Arcane Matter / Green Mutant]
7. New Waver – Life Force [The Defeated / Endearing]
8. Puzahki – Suffocating Matt Pt 2 [Smoking When Pregnant / Alias Frequencies]
9. Wheelsfalloff – Woman [Tough Titties / Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society]
10. Go Back to your Precious Wife and Son – Monkey Machine [Shindii Shimae]
11. John Watermann – D5 – [Ambiguity / Night Shift]
12. Systematics – 245T [Rural / M Squared]
13. Lucas Darklord – How God Rapes (Literal Reading) [Bleaching All Life You Knew / Painfree Foundsound Institute]
14. Melds – Melds [Melds / Alias Frequencies]
15. Beardwagon – Never – [Poolside]

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Tracklist

01 Melds 6:56

Total time: 6:56

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Made by Shannon O’Neill and Andie Reynolds, Melbourne, 2001.

Melds was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2002 as part of Variable Resistance: Ten Hours of Sound from Australia.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF023

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An introduction to humanity for alien listeners.

Tracklist

01 Don’t Presume 0:55
02 Serotonin 1 0:23
03 Don’t Worry 1:09
04 Serotonin 2 0:23
05 Catalogue of Atrocities 3:25
06 Serotonin 3 0:25
07 The Now Generation 1:18
08 Mighty Lord Satan 1:56

Total time 9:54

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Made by John Garland and Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, Sydney, 1999-2002.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF022

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Poetic random. Excavating the unconscious.

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01 Absolutely Free 4:31
02 GSD 4:17

Total time: 8:48

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Made by Yannis Nikolakopoulos and Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, Sydney, 1999.

GSD also appears on the Vibragun compilation ‘Communication Problems’.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF021

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The Splinter Orchestra’s first recording.

Tracklist

01 Petit Mal 25:26

Total time: 25:26

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Featuring:

Chris Abrahams, DX7; Robbie Avenaim, battery operated percussion; Karen Booth, alto saxophone; Monica Brooks, laptop; Ben Byrne, laptop; Luke Callaghan, laptop; Clare Cooper, guzheng; Abel Cross, double bass; Joe Derrick, trumpet; Peter Farrar, alto saxophone; Simon Ferenci, trumpet; Dale Gorfinkel, vibraphone; Lloyd Honeybrook, alto saxophone; Mike Majkowski, double bass; Alex Masso, percussion; Darren Moore, percussion; Inge Olmheim, laptop & field recordings; Shannon O’Neill, MS-20; Matt Ottignon, clarinet & flute; Ian Peterise, baritone saxophone; Michael Sheridan, laptop guitar; Milica Stefanovic, electric bass; Paul Taylor, home made synthesiser; Clayton Thomas, double bass and Daniel Whiting, laptop.

Made by The Splinter Orchestra, recorded at ABC Studio 22, Sydney, 2006.

Performance broadcast on ABCTV’s Set 2006-07-27.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF019

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01 Kiki Ill – Tenoplex 4:40
02 Maladroit – Epping Mass Graves 4:13
03 Toecutter – Fucking Up the Industry 3:13
04 Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer – Second Convulsion 1:35
05 Omega Red – Forlorn 3:44
06 Chromer – Kale Your Pale 3:15
07 Puzahki & Herts Solvent – We Thought You Knew 4:59
08 Simulcast – Back Back X 3:15
09 Axel Brandle – Deeleet Blah Apex 3:06
10 Object – Edge It Tipsy 4:31
11 Time Being – Mental End 4:34

Total time: 41:05

Videos:
Puzahki – Mathamagikal 2:18 MPG
Simulcast – 9 Volt Sunrise 3:30 MPG
Time Being – Four Words 1:14 MPG

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Compiled by Craig Parry, Brisbane, 2003.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF012

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Tracklist

01 Except for This (1989) 4:38
02 Slim Dusty Slammer (1988) 3:37

Total time 8:15

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Produced & recorded by John Watermann, 1988-89.

1990 Nightshift Records NR007.

Made in Australia.

Remastered from cassette by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, 2000.

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Tracklist

01 Abandoned Abattoirs (No Harmony Fudge) (1989) 3:21
02 Hotel Guests Have Slits (1989) 1:37
03 Incitation (1989) 6:09
04 Mild Sheep Mambo (Throat Dryness Remover) (1989) 3:11
05 You’re Learning (1989) 11:53
06 Ramadan Beach Towel (1989) 3:48
07 The Denial of Cricket (1988) 5:08
08 Caring for the Inbred (1989) 6:12
09 Rip Off (1989) 5:58
10 The Answer is Yes (1989) 9:24

Total time: 56:41

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Produced & recorded by John Watermann, 1988-1989.

1990 Nightshift records NR006.

Made in Australia.

Thanks to David Corazza for dialogue box.

Remastered from cassette by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, 2000.

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In the late 80s scientists had modified and improved the circular RAM cartidge to such an extent that it could be slipped into neck slots of human guinea pigs (immobilized with the Cullen crane) simply snapped between the discs of the spine: for the first time ever it now was possible to record and store dreams as they actually occurred during sleep.

Tracklist

01 RAM Slot (1989) 13:10
02 Torn Ligaments Update (1989) 1:57
03 Did You See It? (1986) 6:32
04 Isn’t He Wonderful? (1986) 5:09
05 Liberty Wounds (1989) 8:08
06 Who Dreams Us? #1 (1988) 8:29
07 Vatican Griller Update (1989) 2:36
08 Who Dreams Us? #2 (1988) 10:17

Total time: 56:18

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Produced & recorded by John Watermann, 1986-1989.

1990 Nightshift Records NR005.

Made in Australia.

Thanks to David Corazza for high level response!

Remastered from cassette by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, 2000.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF009

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01 Good Bye (1989) 6:10
02 Going into Space (1988) 5:33
03 Not Quite Fellini’s Waltz (1988) 3:22
04 Back to the Institution (1989) 5:16
05 Latex Room Laughter (1971/88) 2:21
06 They are in There (1987) 7:15
07 These are Workers (1986) 29:35

Total time: 59:32

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Produced & recorded by John Watermann, 1971-1989.

1989 Nightshift Records NR004.

Made in Australia.

Thanks to David Corazza for facial & genital blurring.

Remastered from cassette by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, 2000.

2007 Alias Frequencies AF008

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Made by Adrian Bertram and Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, Sydney, 2001.

2001 Alias Frequencies AF001

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Shannon O’Neill’s first album. Recordings from the mid to late 1990s, exploring ambient dub, proto-glitch and electroacoustic soundscapes.

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Made by Shannon O’Neill at Section 8, Sydney, 1996-99.

2000 Alias Frequencies AF000

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