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All India Radio’s “Permanent Revolutions Remix”. Addendum: Ok, some explanation for posting this, other than it’s nice music.
It’s a great short film by Martin Kennedy and Aidan Halloran about nostalgia, and permanent revolutions, and experimentation all at once - shot on Super-8, with images only those familiar with Melbourne (and Victorian surrounds) would recognise (Westgate Bridge, the Coode Island fire, or at least that’s what I think it is, etc).
It’s a film and music that speaks eloquently to much of what’s discussed here, the post-manufacturing city and its relation to musical experimentation. Indeed, all of All India Radio’s vids are interesting short films, very Melbournian.
And because it just is nice music, at the moment of posting it, perfectly situated along the axes of my Melbourne nostalgia - shimmering Melbourne pop-techno, wandering along an increasingly South-East Asian city centre … Hence the sampling of Chinese opera that you hear coming up. It’s as Melbourne dreamscape as is Bill Henson’s photography (see this), and with shades of colour and foreboding I’ve an affection for.
