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Title: Cantata of fire
Related: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2008/2267059.htm
Publisher: ABC Radio National
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing 200200 Cultural Studies
Author/Creator: Madsen, Virginia
Description: Broadcast on ABC Radio National : Airplay, Performance and Features, 15 June 2008
Description: Ex ABC Website (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2008/2267059.htm): "Cantata of Fire is an imaginative listening experience which takes us into the compound in Waco, Texas during the 1993 siege as the Branch Davidian believers led by David Koresh prepared for the apocalypse. The persuaders were out in force; the FBI attempting their own conversion of belief with a powerful sonic assault on the compound -- a sound and light show transmitted instantly though the television world, a spectacular with its own media circus". Draws on audio archives, written and audio-visual media commentaries and uses sounds of the sonic assault as a musique concrete form. In form the work lies between radio drama, audio art and music theatre. Duration 30 minutes.
Subject Keyword: 190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Subject Keyword: 200200 Cultural Studies
Subject Keyword: radio plays
Subject Keyword: radio performance
Subject Keyword: sound arts
Subject Keyword: experimental radio works
Subject Keyword: sonic assault
Resource Type: sound
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/80991
Identifier: mq-rm-2007011471
Identifier: mq-rm-2009007906
Language: eng

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