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Bec Fary guest hosts |
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Near the chicken coop: listening with pigeons, chickens and other birds higher up in the trees. Sheltering from the sun under the lemon tree. 24°C. | ||||||||||
Acknowledgement of Country. These sounds were recorded on stolen Aboriginal land, in so-called Footscray (Melbourne, Australia). The Traditional Owners of this land are the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Bec pays their respects to Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Elders, past, present and future | ||||||||||
Sitting closer to the back of the sharehouse. Considering local property development. | ||||||||||
Listening to reverberating construction sounds from the banks of the Maribyrnong River. | ||||||||||
Listening to distant echoes of construction from home. | ||||||||||
Considering colonisation, occupation and the extraction of local resources. The local area was surveyed in 1849, and Footscray bluestone was used in buildings and roads in Melbourne and overseas. | ||||||||||
Listening to freight trains from the banks of the Maribyrnong River. | ||||||||||
Considering Footscray’s gentrified ‘cool’. | ||||||||||
Under the fig tree, entangled with jasmine. 34°C. | ||||||||||
Tending to the veggies and considering growth cycles in the Maribyrnong River Valley. | ||||||||||
Listening to rain from the beginning of Melbourne’s Covid lockdown, in Gareeal (‘summer rain’ season). | ||||||||||
Considering local seasonal cycles. Language sourced from The Journey Cycles of the Boonwurrung by Boonwurrung Elder N’Arweet Carolyn Briggs. | ||||||||||
Considering local swamps and wetlands: Iramoo (‘West Melbourne Swamp’/’Batman’s Swamp’), Frog’s Hollow and Newells Paddock. | ||||||||||
Listening in Newells Paddock wetlands. | ||||||||||
Nighttime. 29°C. | ||||||||||
Considering the critically endangered Lowland Leadbeater’s Possum population in Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. |
Acknowledgements:
So many generous conversations and thoughtful writings have fed into these listenings. Huge thank you to my housemates Rory, Ham and Tyson, for the safety of our shared home. The greyhounds Tim and Lily for your curious noses.
Lady Celestine, Penny, Rocky and Ariana — the chickens — for your cheekiness.
Thanks to Ecological Gyre Theory and my fellow worms in the soil of Abyss Lessons for navigating depths and extracting complications.
The following resources have been invaluable:
‘How To Do Nothing’ by Jenny Odell
‘Living On Stolen Land’ by Ambelin Kwaymullina
‘Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World’ by Tyson Yunkaporta
‘The Lure of the Local’ by Lucy R Lippard
Footscray bluestone information from Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West
‘Swamp, Meat, Salt’ from Underfoot (audio tour of Footscray) by Liz Crash and Jinghua Qian
‘The Journey Cycles of the Boonwurrung: Stories with Boonwurrung Language’ by Carolyn Briggs
Time Out Talks: The Gentrification of Footscray
History of Newell’s Paddock from Friends of Newell’s Paddock
The Maribyrnong Aboriginal Heritage Study which can be downloaded here
‘Melbourne’ by Sophie Cunningham
‘Dadirri: Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awareness’ by Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr
‘The Great Animal Orchestra’ by Bernie Krause
‘The Comfort of Water’ by Maya Ward (and an interview with Maya for The Empathy Museum)
An interview with Dr Dan Harley for Zoos Victoria’s Fauna podcast
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