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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This week, off on tour through Southwest Victoria performing a show called Underscore - playing electro-acoustic soundscapes for authors Jane Clifton and Wayne Macauley with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics. It's gonna be cold. Maybe I'd better knit another one of these for Sally?

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In some rare good news: artist-run music platform Subvert.fm is now live! If you've been looking for an alternative to extractive streaming platforms check this out. It's a co-op and there are already more than 20,000 artists/bands signed up.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

@dusttodigital.bsky.social Dust-to-Digital radio is bringing joy to my heart. Check it out!

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Adding some cello & mandolin to Sally Ford & the Idiomatics’ live original soundtrack to Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1917) this Wednesday 18 Feb at Fed Square Melbourne, 8 pm free entry! Bring something to sit on or come early to grab a beanbag…

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Making my way systematically though Selects podcast eps and keep being blown away by the audio gems they’re putting back into circulation. For example the Kitchen Sisters piece on Tony Schwartz selects.supportingcast.fm/listen/tony-...

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Selects | Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later by the Kitchen Sisters

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Powerful stuff in this @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social episode - the voices of young people talking to Samantha Brown. I’m not a crier but I had a big lump in my throat listening to this. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

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Seeking Small True Things

Podcast Episode · Sound School Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 33m

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Wow, this @radiolab.bsky.social episode took an unexpected turn! Extraordinary story - in which punk rock, politics and public health collide podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

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Los Frikis

Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 12/09/2025 · 33m

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Stories of dodgy tycoon Christopher Skase peppered my adolescence and early 20s. Fascinated to hear the full(er) story on ABC RN Rewind - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

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01 | The Confidence Man

Podcast Episode · ABC Rewind · 19/09/2025 · 1 sec

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just pressed submit on an @audioflux.bsky.social entry - of course the idea came at the last minute but I decided to go with it anyway because it felt real! Having these prompts to make new work is really helpful, gotta say!

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Recommendation: ‘Empire’ podcast eps on the Suez Crisis - a fantastic guest in historian @alexvont.bsky.social Covers so much fascinating territory in a very engaging way. From Egypt to Palestine to… Hungary, not to mention France, Britain, Israel and the US. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

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284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)

Podcast Episode · Empire · 25/08/2025 · 39m

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ep 4 of Choc-tops and Cassata out now, taking a trip from a small theatre in Naples to Melbourne cinemas screening Italian movies in the 60s - 70s to Italian and French film festivals and the popularisation of prosecco in Australia. Local cinema history from the horse’s mouth!

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Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Out today! Had a blast adding cello to this album… recorded at Rolling Stock Studio by Myles Mumford - have a listen sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

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Every Happiness, by Sally Ford and the Idiomatics

9 track album

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“That which no canvas could withstand” - a gorgeous piece on the Beaufort Scale on BBC podcast Illuminated, one of my favourite shows. Beautiful writing, lessons in editing and sound design. Engages all the senses. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

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Sea Like a Mirror

Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 29/06/2025 · 29m

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v

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Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Wandering down the aisles of Melbourne’s lost Italian language cinemas, cassata balanced precariously on a paper plate… I’ve enjoyed being part of the research & production team for this new podcast. Teaser here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Choc-tops and Cassata - Teaser

Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · S1 Trailer · 1m

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Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory

Image of a flyer introducing the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A curation of voices … here is an audio piece I made out of #oralhistory collections on university student life in Melbourne in the first half of the 20th century. Listen at soundcloud.com/user-1152745...

A photographic installation in an open-sided pavilion in an urban park setting. Black and white archival photographs have been enlarged and pasted on mobile wall panels. Two women wearing backpacks walk through the space in opposite directions. A 1952 photo in the foreground shows eight students standing near a Gothic building on fire. The old Wilson Hall has smoke billowing out its windows.

A woman in a blue jumper, dark trousers and boots stands beside an enlarged black and white photograph on a mobile panel, in an open-sided pavilion in a park. The photograph, taken in the 1930s, shows a woman fishing for yabbies in a lake.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

An observation from my 18-y-old about social media during the election campaign. He reckons that ALP smashed the LNP in memes etc - and he’s not particularly political (as in: doesn’t read the news). This might actually be more significant than we might imagine in shaping the election results.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ok so I’m very relieved by the Australian election result but I also want to acknowledge that opposition leader Dutton (who lost his seat!) has *accepted* the loss and is NOT doing a Trump sore loser act.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Can’t reply directly to these unsolicited texts during the Australian federal election campaign so sharing my response here instead. Background for people outside Australia: a Trump-influenced party is trying to foment division over the practice of First Nations Welcome to Country ceremonies.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If you were thinking about it but haven’t … it’s worth a go!

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Made the shortlist for the Whickers podcast pitch awards! I’ve been working on this project about Mavis Robertson for a couple of years now & the thought that I *might* get the funds to make the series I first imagined back in 2022 is a bit thrilling. & if I don’t win I feel encouraged anyway

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Melburnians: Looking for something to do this arvo? Come down to the Lowie (Lomond Hotel) in East Brunswick - I’m playing cello with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics starting from 5 pm - lush melancholic electronica with some organica…

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tonight! In St Kilda - playing sweet original tunes - leaning towards sad but I reckon you’ll walk away in better spirits than when you arrived… tix via sunshinetip.xyz/shows

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Interested in oral history? Make sure to register for this online seminar on the key principles everyone should know about oral history, presented by AHA member and Oral History NSW VP Scott McKinnon -- it's on tomorrow! Catch all the details here:

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An Introduction to Oral History: Key Principles Everyone Should Know - 22 March 2025 — ORAL HISTORY NSW

In this introductory seminar, Oral History NSW Vice President Scott McKinnon will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps in…

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Listening back to a CD of an old favourite soundtrack: Brazilian film ‘Central Station’ (1998) - with Siba playing rabeca… then went down the internet rabbit hole to find out more about the instrument. I love this stuff, just sharing in case others do too. soundsandcolours.com/articles/bra...

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The Rebirth of the Rabeca Fiddle of Brazil

Deeply bound to the northeastern coastal cultures of Brazil is a stringed instrument known as the the rabeca. With the rise of Brazilian world music bands and

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks @martatlon.bsky.social for sharing (starting?) this! Let’s save this really unique radio program!

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Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info. & Culture @babbageinstitute.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New Starter Pack on Archives & Oral History. go.bsky.app/D7mVKQX

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So sad to see BBC Short Cuts program get the chop !! @bbc what are you thinking? Here’s an idea: everyone go and have a listen to the latest ep - maybe if numbers jump they’ll reconsider? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Passed this gorgeous poppy growing out of the pavement on my way into day 1 of the Oral History Australia conference. After a year of hard volunteer work planning & organising this event, it feels like a good omen. Poppies and oral history: all about remembering!

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE but here's what we know about priorities

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For people coming to the Oral History Australia conference (starting with a workshop day tomorrow Thurs 21 Nov) follow Nicolette for updates!

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Do you know about AIR (Association of Independents in Radio)? It’s a fantastic platform for resources, training and networking in audio. Really insightful webinars, toolboxes and a ‘talent’ directory that I’ve just added myself to airmedia.org/talent/alice...

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Alice Garner

Once upon a time I kept my historian, actor and musician hats on different hooks. Then I realised I could stack them up in audio documentary form. I’m a professional oral historian, cellist, writer an...

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Some really thought provoking prompts for this issue call-out: #oralhistorians and #archivists check it out.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Heading into my first #podcastworkersalliance skillshare on a hot Melbourne morning- I wonder what will I learn today? Signed, Eternal Student

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Svetlana Stankovic @svetlanastankovic.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

It’s November and that means we're looking for timeless first-person pieces of around 800 words that can run in Guardian Australia's opinion section over December/January. Please email your idea to cif.australia@theguardian.com with SUMMER PITCH in the subject

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Attention oral historians, journalists, podcasters! Oral History Australia’s biennial conference registrations close tonight (11 Nov) at midnight! (AEDT) oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-con...

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