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The Secret Life Of
Celebrating the music industry people who work backstage or behind the glass… the tireless support crew, album cover and tour poster designers, instrument makers, music teachers, and composers for big and small screens.
An occasional series that runs during Music 101 on Saturday afternoons, and 8:30pm Fridays
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Secret Life of Music Therapists
28 Feb 2015Even before birth we are attuned to the tone and rhythm of our mother's heartbeat and voice. Music and sound can move us in profound ways and it's a language anyone can speak. From toddlers with… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life Of Karaoke
Music 101's Zac Arnold investigates how Karaoke has weaved its way from Japan into all corners of the globe, delving into the psychology of why we perform in front of each other, and takes to the… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life of Love Songs
14 Feb 2015Why are good love songs so difficult to write? Is there such a thing as a pure, untainted love song that won't leave some cringing? Or is Nick Cave right when he says, "A love song is never truly… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life of Instrument Repairers
Like most musicians, The Phoenix Foundation's Samuel Scott has a lot of broken musical equipment. Getting vintage gear fixed (or more broken) can be a long, confusing, heart-breaking journey into the… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life Of Music Royalties
Recently Iggy Pop delivered a lecture on BBC Radio called 'Free Music in a Capitalist Society', in which he lambasted record companies for screwing musicians into penury. If the "computer Putins" had… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life of Conductors
The most prestigious and yet misunderstood role in the orchestra must be that of the conductor. Kirsten Johnstone finds out about the art of conducting from some of New Zealand's well known Maestros.
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Who Polices the Noise Police
The Phoenix Foundation's Samuel Scott explores the world of sound control, and how inner city apartments have affected the live music scene. Read more Audio
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The Secret Life Of Music Radio
Music radio has proven to be one of the most durable members of the old media club, but the move to mobile devices and streaming music services coupled with short attention spans are further diluting… Read more Audio
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Audiophilia: The Secret Life of Audiophiles 2
"High fidelity" means being true to an original acoustic event; recreating music that is exactly as it sounded when it was recorded. In Audiophilia, Julie Hill talks to sound system, hi-fi and speaker… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life of Music Poster Artists
From the psychedelic paintings of the '60s to the crème of the current digital producers... Joe Nunweek delves into the work of local artists Stuart Page, Terrence Hogan, Toby Morris and Hadley… Read more Audio
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The Secret Life Of Soundsystems
Nick Atkinson corrals some of the main players in Aotearoa's small, but determined community of Sound System wranglers, they who build and shift heavy bins upon which reggae of all vintages is played.
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The Secret Life of Backing Vocalists
Anthonie Tonnon talks to some of New Zealand's most respected backing vocalists, and skilled up and comers, including Suzanne Lynch, Annie Crummer, Jordan Iusitini, Chelsea Prastiti and Siobhan Grace… Read more Audio