Mark Isaacs Recorded 10 February, 2008

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Mark Isaacs is one of Australia's foremost composers and pianists. His work embraces both classical and jazz idioms, and ranges from grand orchestral and choral commissions to subtle and gently evocative piano improvisations. In this conversation, George Cruickshank talks to Mark about his four-album series The Elements - a gorgeously atmospheric collection of intimate improvised vignettes for solo piano, which has recently been re-released.

Jaroslav Kovaricek Recorded 23 April, 2007

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Jaroslav Kovaricek is known to radio audiences across Australia as the voice of Dreamtime, a ground-breaking music show broadcast for many years during the 1980s on ABC-FM. The show successfully juxtaposed traditional western classical music with contemporary new age and ambient styles, and was immensely popular with audiences. In this interview Marc Cottee talks with Jaroslav about his work on radio, his experiences of running Australian ambient/new age record label Terra Australia, and about music and life in general.

Inga Liljestrom Recorded 7 February, 2005

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The voice of Sydney artist Inga Liljestrom has been described as Australia's answer to Bjork-meets-Marianne Faithful and Portishead with a dash of Lisa Gerrard thrown in for good measure. Her complex, multi-layered, richly orchestrated songs merge a neo-jazz sensibility with crisp Scandinavian-inspired minimalist lyricism, and evoke an intimate world, simultaneously cinematic in scope and dripping with potent audio-visual symbolism. The promise of Inga's 1998 inaugural release Urchin has been fully realised in her acclaimed follow-up, Elk (recently released on Groovescooter Records), which she discusses in this interview with George Cruickshank. Elk is  scheduled for broadcast by Ultima Thule in February 2005.

Stevie Wishart Recorded 22 March, 2004

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Sydney artist Stevie Wishart is the founder of contemporary experimental music group The Machine for Making Sense and mediaeval performance group Sinfonye. She is recognised as one of the world's leading interpreters of the music of 12th century mystic, poet and composer Hildegard von Bingen, whose extraordinary musical creations have been rediscovered and popularised in recent years after centuries of obscurity. In this interview Stevie speaks with George Cruickshank about O nobilissima viriditas,  the third volume of a series intended to encompass the complete works of Hildegard; the recording is newly released on the Celestial Harmonies label, and is scheduled for broadcast by Ultima Thule in June 2004.

Peter Miller Recorded early 1991

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For well over a decade and a half Peter Miller has been one of Australia's foremost sound designers and composers of electronic music for film, television and multimedia. His long professional partnership with director Alex Proyas (Dark City, I Robot) resulted in one of the most memorable soundtracks ever to be associated with an Australian feature film; Rolling Stone described  Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989) as "the finest and most daringly experimental piece of electronic ambience ever released in Australia... an album of stunning instrumental beauty and exquisite soundscapes...". In this interview Peter discusses his then newly-released follow-up album, Love vs Gravity, which went on to receive similar accolades.