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A new set begins: Bec Fary guest hosts
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Comment: 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.
Comment: 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
Comment: Sitting closer to the back of the sharehouse. Considering local property development.
Comment: Listening to reverberating construction sounds from the banks of the Maribyrnong River.
Comment: Listening to distant echoes of construction from home.
Comment: 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.
Comment: Listening to freight trains from the banks of the Maribyrnong River.
Comment: Considering Footscray’s gentrified ‘cool’.
Comment: Under the fig tree, entangled with jasmine. 34°C.
Comment: Tending to the veggies and considering growth cycles in the Maribyrnong River Valley.
Comment: Listening to rain from the beginning of Melbourne’s Covid lockdown, in Gareeal (‘summer rain’ season).
Comment: Considering local seasonal cycles. Language sourced from The Journey Cycles of the Boonwurrung by Boonwurrung Elder N’Arweet Carolyn Briggs.
Comment: Considering local swamps and wetlands: Iramoo (‘West Melbourne Swamp’/’Batman’s Swamp’), Frog’s Hollow and Newells Paddock.
Comment: Listening in Newells Paddock wetlands.
Comment: Nighttime. 29°C.
Comment: Considering the critically endangered Lowland Leadbeater’s Possum population in Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve.
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