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The Big Note Episode #130 - India & Elsewhere
On March 18, for the 130th episode of The Big Note on 3MDR 97.1 FM, I have a wonderful chat with Murthovic & Avinash, two amazing creatives from India who together are Murthovic & Thiruda. They are appearing at Bunjil Place on the 28th of March as part of "Elsewhere In India" from 4:45 - 7:30pm and…
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The Big Note Episode #129 - Why Pets Dance
As you may know The Big Note often looks at the important issues in life (and what can be more important than music?) - so in Episode #129 we look at the topic of dancing pets. A great deal of wonderful music from Australia and elsewhere is played as well. Episode 129 Playlist: * 1969 - Riow Arai…
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The Big Note Episode #128 - Wonderful Women (mostly)
Sunday the 8th of March is International Women's Day, so I'm playing music by some amazing women for much of the show to celebrate. Later on I indulge myself with a few new musical revelations from AMRAP as well as a couple of my favourite tracks because I can (and yesterday marked another trip for…
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The Big Note Episode #127 - Microtonal Politics
For Episode #127 of The Big Note we explore microtonality further, after briefly touching on it last week. We also discuss politics both in music and in life, seeing as I touched on that subject last week as well (and got a bit of feedback) 😆 ~ Microtonality is the use of microtones in music — tha…
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The Big Note Episode #126 - Chill with a dash of Microtonality
This mornings episode of The Big Note sees us explore some classical influences in modern music but mostly, after our theory heavy show last week, we will chill. I do however touch on microtonality briefly, just to mix things up a bit. I also annoy some (hopefully only a few) people with my opinio…
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The Big Note Episode #125 - Seriously Serialism [Seriously]
Episode #125 - Seriously Serialism [Seriously] For this mornings The Big Note we explore the compositional form known as SERIALISM but intersperse the serious bits with lots of good music (Non-Serial & Serial for examples). We look at some of the history behind Serialism as well as how it influenc…
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The Big Note Episode #124 - Remixes & Road Trips
For the 124th Big Note we talk a bit about the phenomenon of the “Remix”. We also delve into common themes in songs across the years, in this case road trips, or getting away (usually in a car or motorbike) and of course we listen to a few recent Australian tracks as well! The Big Note #124 PLAYL…
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The Big Note Episode #123 - LIVE!
This episode of The Big Note we explore the origins, history and changes of live musical performance, inspired in no small amount by my experiencing David Byrne & his amazing Ensemble of musicians and dancers performing live last Thursday night on their "Who Is The Sky" tour at the Sidney Myer Musi…
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The Big Note Episode #122 - Happy New Year!
Episode #122 - Happy New Year! For the Big Note's return to the airwaves for 2026 I was planning on outlining some of what we would be covering discussion-wise in upcoming episodes, but could barely hear myself think due to nearby wood-chippers, so played mostly music instead! We bow our heads to …
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The Big Note Is Away - But Will Return
The Big Note is having a break over the holiday season and will return on the 21st of January 2026. I take no responsibility for any of the tracks Larry Lyrebird may have played between 0900 - 1100 on Wednesday mornings in my absence!
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