ISSUE #35.
CLOUDSONG:
The entire time,
song.
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Listen.
Gentle music for cloud watching / cloud listening / cloud speaking ↴
Think.
"Many years ago, this land that we now call Melbourne extended right out to the ocean."
N’Arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a Boonwurrung Elder who is recognised as a keeper of the history and genealogies of her people. In this article for Meanjin, N’Arwee’t Carolyn provides a history of the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boonwurrung, the first people of "Melbourne".
↯ READ: A HISTORY OF BOONWURRUNG (MELBOURNE) ↯
Feel.
"Sound is more ancient than planet Earth. More ancient even than atoms. 13 billion years ago sound waves pulsed through the hot plasma of the early cosmos."
Pop on some good headphones and find a little nook for a journey into the origins and evolution of sound and song, written and narrated by sound ecologist David Haskell ↴
Wonder.
In the Northern hinterlands of Laos, the Hmong people practise a dying tradition of whistling, usually with leaves found in the forest. This thoroughly poetic tradition is a type of language that straddles the boundary between speech and music ↴
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