Production

Comedy sketches, radio serials, show imaging, promos and other interruptions, produced for Australia's national youth broadcaster in the triple j radiophonic workshop.

The Precise History of Things, with Sam Simmons

An educational segment, written and performed by Sam Simmons, about where things come from and how they began. Wheat, hands, sport, girls, moths, sound – we take all these for granted, but their origins and true nature have always been shrouded in mystery – until now.

The Blow Parade

A five-part music documentary series created by Chris Taylor, Andrew Hansen and myself. Each half-hour episode tells the story of the making of a classic rock album – Lake Deuteronomy’s epic Spool in the Pits of Prometheus, The Fatcocks’ explosive punk masterpiece Corgi Scum, and legendary folk singer Egg Zagar’s tragically posthumous Whale Song.

triple j - we love music

New station imaging for triple j. Created in the ABC studios with a band made up of Jamie and Jerry from Bluejuice (bass and keys) Mick from Kid Confucious (drums) and Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall (guitar).

Hottest 100, 2009

Stings, sounds and singing girls for the world's biggest music poll. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Hottest 100, 2010

Aztec Beach Party. Brrrrap!

Coma FM

Now playing the best of the 80s, 90s and mid-90s. Commercial radio interruptions written by Chris Taylor, originally broadcast on Today Today between 2004 and 2005.

Radio problems

A scratched CD, a badly timed studio tour, a medical advice segment gone terribly wrong. A few of the more awkward things to have happened on the radio in triple j’s recent history.

House Party

The best night of your life in under thirty seconds

The Race Race

A daily half-hour show presented by Chris Taylor and Craig Reucassel, covering the McCain v Obama battle for the White House.

Hack

Shoving the j into journalism! Stings and IDs created for Hack, triple j’s current affairs half-hour.

Space Goat

Alone in deep space, with the planets and stars his only friends...

Battalion 666

Salty adventures of satanic navy vessel, originally broadcast on Jay and The Doctor's breakfast show, 2006-2007.

Bonez MC that's me...

Quiet guy in the office reveals secret life as 80s rap star.

Mornings with Linda Mottram

Grown-up radio! IDs and imaging for ABC local radio, created with Ben Fletcher (Devoted Few, Sarah Blasko, Bluebottle Kiss, his own darn self)

Strange Prisoners

'Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open toward the light... here they have been since childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so they cannot move, and can only see before them. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.'

russell brand | msnbc | plato | the cave

Every Man For Himself

"Golden cities, golden towns,
And long cars in long lines,
And great big signs,
And they all say: hallelujah, yodelayheehoo,
every man for himself..."

Laurie Anderson, 'Big Science', 1982

Get Rid of the Net

"Self-esteem is sacrosanct, and so we labour to turn arts education into a system in which no one can fail. In the same spirit, tennis could be shorn of its elitist overtones: you just get rid of the net."

robert hughes | self-esteem | arts education

Contort Yourself

"The abstract thinker, to whom the question of practical morality is indifferent, has always loved dancing, as naturally as the moralist has hated it."

james white and the blacks | arthur symons | nietzsche | disco

Tiger's Leap

History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogenous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. [Jetztzeit]. Thus, to Robespierre ancient Rome was a past charged with the time of the now which he blasted out of the continuum of history. The French Revolution viewed itself as Rome incarnate. It evoked ancient Rome the way fashion evokes costumes of the past. Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger’s leap into the past. This jump, however, takes place in an arena where the ruling class give the commands. The same leap in the open air of history is the dialectical one, which is how Marx understood the revolution.

beyonce | mrs carter tour | walter benjamin | philosophy of history

Craig Schuftan