First Name
Jon
Last Name
Tjhia
City, State
Melbourne, Victoria
Country
Australia
Pronouns
He/him
Gender
Male
Roles
Editor
Producer
Host
Reporter
Sound Designer
Sound Engineer
Composer
Social Media
Tape Syncs
Other role
Writer
Formats / Genre
Narrative Non-fiction / Documentary
News / Journalism
Fiction
Experimental
Other Format / Genre
Sound/radio art
Languages spoken
Australian English, beginner level Mandarin Chinese, unconvincing British English
Open to relocating
No
Open to branded content?
No
More about me
Hi! I'm currently interested in hearing about opportunities to recognise and extend the creative potential of writing and radio, to broaden its influences and influence; and to sharpen the work of underrepresented practitioners in the sonic arts.
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I'm a radio maker, musician, artist and writer. I co-founded the podcast Paper Radio. Until late 2020, I co-edited (and co-founded) the Australian Audio Guide. For more than ten years, I worked for the Wheeler Centre, where I was senior digital editor and created the Signal Boost podcast development programme.
Since 2010, Paper Radio’s stories have been heard on radio stations around the anglosphere (ABC, BBC, CBC … all the BCs, really); at Manchester Literature Festival and at London's Barbican Centre, on the podcast The Truth; and profiled in places like The New Yorker and The Age.
With the Wheeler Centre, I was part of the team that produced the series Better Off Dead (2016) and the multi-award winning series The Messenger – the latter a collaboration with Behind the Wire. It documents the life of Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee living in immigration detention in Papua New Guinea.
'how are you today', a collaborative sound work involving men currently detained on Manus Island, was exhibited as part of Eavesdropping at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne. It will be exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, NZ, from August to November 2019; it's archived online at https://manusrecordingproject.com/, alongside a newer work produced and delivered by SMS during Melbourne's COVID-19 second wave. I'm currently working on independent works for exhibition, live performance and podcast, and writing. I'm available for interesting and suitable projects!
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I'm a radio maker, musician, artist and writer. I co-founded the podcast Paper Radio. Until late 2020, I co-edited (and co-founded) the Australian Audio Guide. For more than ten years, I worked for the Wheeler Centre, where I was senior digital editor and created the Signal Boost podcast development programme.
Since 2010, Paper Radio’s stories have been heard on radio stations around the anglosphere (ABC, BBC, CBC … all the BCs, really); at Manchester Literature Festival and at London's Barbican Centre, on the podcast The Truth; and profiled in places like The New Yorker and The Age.
With the Wheeler Centre, I was part of the team that produced the series Better Off Dead (2016) and the multi-award winning series The Messenger – the latter a collaboration with Behind the Wire. It documents the life of Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee living in immigration detention in Papua New Guinea.
'how are you today', a collaborative sound work involving men currently detained on Manus Island, was exhibited as part of Eavesdropping at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne. It will be exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, NZ, from August to November 2019; it's archived online at https://manusrecordingproject.com/, alongside a newer work produced and delivered by SMS during Melbourne's COVID-19 second wave. I'm currently working on independent works for exhibition, live performance and podcast, and writing. I'm available for interesting and suitable projects!
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