Richard Feidler

There's a kind of sense of dreaminess and mystery in all that music.

What do you think is going on there?

Do you have a thought on what you're reaching for?

Are you going to a place when you whistle like that?

I think one of the reasons why it sounds a little uncanny is because it's a bit like birdsong, but motivated by human intelligence.

And that's the uncanny aspect of it.

What kind of whistling music from the past has an effect on you?

There's this anecdote I've heard from Tom Waits where he said that sometimes his muse would come to him with the idea for a song while he was driving a car on the freeway where you can't pull over at all and he would actually say to his muse...

Look, I really appreciate this, but can you see I'm driving a car right now?

Can you wait till I get home?

Do you have to stop sometimes if you get the idea for a thread of a song?

So you have to stop in public and whistle into your phone.

I do.

amazingly, Molly, you're the daughter of Mark Lewis, who has also been on this program, the man who made Cane Toads, which is one of the funniest documentaries that's ever been made.

You kind of grew up in that world of documentary making.

It's almost like a Mark Lewis documentary that wasn't made by Mark Lewis, isn't it?

Can you just describe what you saw when you watched that documentary?

I have to ask, is there something a bit odd about having a competition for whistling?

I mean, normally when you have a music genre, you have a kind of a showcase thing, like you have a music festival, not a competition.

Is there something a little odd about that?