ARTS ALIVE	PGM 44 -2007.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 5 November 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 02¡¨

This week¡K  The short list for the Whyalla Art prize, one of the oldest in regional Australia, has been announced¡K  The Federation Bells Carillion, perhaps the first trans-national web-controlled musical instrument in history, now has a new, user friendly compositional interface¡K And the Queensland government unveils a new public art program.  We speak to the author of the research on which the program is based. Our guest is Oliver Streeton.  His grandfather was the eminent pioneer of Australian impressionism, the artist Arthur Streeton.  Together with Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Fred McCubbin and Jane Southerland they became known as the Heidleberg School, a name that is as misleading as it is well known, as we shall hear.  

STING		NEWS:  (4.59)	Sting

A little of the music of Billy Cobham one of the international guests billed for WomAdelaide for 2008.  Still in South Australia ¡Kand Country Arts SA has announced the short-list for the Whyalla Art Prize.  This year has seen unprecedented interest in the prize, with some 464 responses to the call for submissions¡K Harry Koch is the co-ordinator to the prize.

Item 1: Whyalla Art Prize / Harry Koch (4.24)
First words:  Basically the Whyalla¡K
Last words: ¡K.in the Whyalla art prize¡¨

Harry Koch from Country Arts SA.  And the winners will be announced on 21 November in the foyer of the Middleback Theatre in Whyalla where the finalists will be on display until 20 January.  Long standing listeners to this program may remember that we visited a foundary in rural Victoria for the pouring of one of the bells that now form the Federation Bells Carillion in Birrung Marr on Melbourne¡¦s Yarra bank. 
The instrument was designed to be controlled by computer with a web interface, accessible world -wide. Darrin Verhagen, is lecturer in sound in the School of Art at RMIT and has been encouraging his student to use the Federation Bells.  I asked him about how the students were rising to the opportunity to use the instrument¡K

Item 2: Fed Bells / Darrin Verhagen (3.54 or 4.31)
First words: I think it is a 
Last words: ¡K.

Darrin Verhagen, lecturer in sound in the School of Art at RMIT.  And if you want to take a look at the Federation Bells website go to www.federationbells.com.au 
There you can compose to your heart¡¦s content so I am going to have a go myself¡K

Track 1:  Federation Bells / live performance

Item 4 Oliver Streeton on Arthur Streeton (9.26)
First words: ¡K
Last words: ¡K.

Track 2:  Rebel Song / Shane Howard

END VOICE	26 min 50 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 08 sec

Item 5  Oliver Streeton on Arthur Streeton (9.19)
First words: 
Last words: ¡K.

Track 3:  Shadow of Your Love / Shane Howard

The Queensland Minister for the Arts, Rod Welford, has just launched Queensland's new $12 million public art fund.  Called art+place, the fund will allocate $4 million annually over the next three years to public art commissions.  The fund replaces a ¡¥percent for art¡¦ program which expected that 2% of the budget for public capital works would go to art works for the project. That program was reviewed by Professor Michael Keniger, now Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic, at the University of Queensland and the new program is largely based on his recommendations.  So I asked Professor Keniger what his research had found about the percent for art approach to pubic art¡K

Item 6:  Qld Percent for Art / Michael Keniger (8.51)
First words:  ¡§I found many things¡K
Last words: ...within a building program¡¨

Professor Michael Keniger from the University of Queensland. 
Queensland's new $12 million public art fund, art+place, announced last week was largely based o his recommendations, after reviewing the ¡¥percent for art¡¦ approach previously employed in Queensland.  It will be interesting to se whether other Australian government follow suit.  Since an election is looming I wonder if either party are interested in public art?

And that¡¦s the program for this week¡K thanks for listening¡K  ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.  We receive financial support from the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ... and the assistance of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University.  The program is heard on the COMMUNITY RADIO NETWORK, on the SBS DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE, and is distributed on CD by THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE.

The spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com . Thanks Vincent Fok for his work each week on the website I¡¦m Vincent O¡¦Donnell and to go out today here is some music from DIG directions I Grove, from the Speak easy CD its History? (is this the end of ) 

END VOICE	51 min 51 sec 		PROGRAM ENDS	55 min 50 sec

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec.
Stings: News sting; Billy Cobham from the Womadelaide 2008 press kit CD Track 1:  ¡§Federation Bells / live on the Internet Track 2:  ¡§Rebel Song¡¨/Shane Howard/ ditto/ CP/ GRO49-405/ 3.30 Track 3: ¡§Shadow of Your Love¡¨/Shane Howard/ ditto/ CP/ GRO49-405/ 1.49 Track 4:  ¡§History? (Is this the end of)/DIG/DIG/CP/5285392 / 4 mins.