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31. Music
 CONCRETE EXAMPLE.—In 1892, four years after Thomas Edison premiered his wax cylinder recordings, Sydney Ballaban of Titta Titta claimed to be the first person to record Australist Music – using his very own “tinfoil”
recording system – the Bamba Lamba Balla Balla Banophone. These recordings are of such low fidelity that it is impossible to tell what they are recordings of. Ballaban would later claim his back - catalogue was immortalising the works of early “concrete music” composers. A likely story. If you want to know what his recordings sound like, put on a suit of armour and
climb inside a cement mixer.
ME JAEN.—( 1949 - ) b. Paradidddle. Like Winona Heifetz, Jaen Brin is an Australist singer - songwriter who continues the fine Australist tradition of singing American Country & Western tunes. Does
she transform these simple folk tunes into the Australist idiom, using a foreign cultural form as a musical means to probe this fine land’s history & people? No, she does it in the hope she will land a juicy contract with some Nashville label and have a hit record that will make her as rich as Croesus or at least Johnny Cash.
RADIO FREE AUST.—Radio Free Australis. has more of what you want... More old - time music and Hawaiian delights. ...More of your favourite Barber - shop quartets. ...More up - to - the - minute market & weather reports. And Radio Free Aust. has NO shrill female hostesses, NO squaling sopranos and no
screeching violins. Yes, sir, we won't stop your hens from laying. Radio Free Australis. For the discriminating man of the land.
DAME GWYNWETH BLYTONIA.—( 1889 - 1967 ) b. Ember. The great Aust. singer of Michael Jackson songs. She was born in The Suburb, Ember, as Carrie O’Kay, the eldest of 56 children. Her father was a successful and entrepreneurial sperm donor.
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