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Granite Well at The You Yangs
This week is NAIDOC Week. I thought i would report a story I recently learnt, as told by Uncle Bryon Powell. He is a Wathaurung Man and this is Wathaurung country.
The You Yangs are a granite outcrop that form part of a songline that goes from South Australia to Wilsons Promontory. Along this songline are other granite outcrops including The Grampians and Arthurs Seat. The songline was in important trading route and one of many other interconnected routes that provided commerce for aboriginal people for hundreds and thousands of generations.
What you can see here in the foreground is a well that was carved out of the rock. Typically these also had a granite capstone to keep the animals and birds out to protect the water from contamination. This well is over a metre deep and one of a series throughout the location.
Once early settlers figured out the purpose, they smashed the capstones and salted the well so that they were unusable, toxic etc.
'Singing the world into existence.'
Introducing a new series: Songlines.
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Within the animist belief system of Indigenous Australians , a songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) mark the route followed by localised 'creator-beings' during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
(source: Wikipedia)
The light show on the Opera House this year was titled 'songlines', put together by indigenous artists.
Songlines of the Whales
VIDEO :
Established in 1988, the Oceania Project is an independent, non-profit research organisation dedicated to the conservation and protection of Whales, Dolphins and the oceans. The first phase of a long-term study of the East Australian Humpback Whales has been the major work of the Oceania Project.
The East Australian Humpback Whales travel in an unending cycle of migration between their birthplace in the inter-reef lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef and their Antarctic feeding areas.
Their world is comprised of vast stretches of ocean where songs emitted by the Humpback Whales can be heard over great distances. Each year the whales sing a new song. Haunting melodies of radiant joy which fill the ocean along the East Coast of Australia.
When ecosystems across the planet are collapsing and species are becoming extinct at an accelerating rate, the East Australian Humpback Whales are making a remarkable recovery. They have become Australia's national treasure and a symbol of hope for our imperilled environment.
We as the new generation of caretakers of the planet Earth have learnt from the mistakes of our elders and are helping nurture the Rebirth of a Species.
Panorama of Sydney Harbour during Vivid, including the 'Songlines display on the Opera House, and the Harbour Bridge lit up on the eastern side for the first time.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Yarrkalpa (Hunting Ground), 2013, Kumpaya Girgirba, Yikartu Bumba, Kanu Nancy Taylor, Ngamaru Bidu, Yuwali Janice Nixon, Reena Rogers, Thelma Judson and Ngalangka Nola Taylor, Martumili Artists, acrylic on linen, 300 x 500 cm. National Museum of Australia. © the artists, Martumili Artists
This encyclopaedic painting contains a nuanced knowledge of plants and animals, of seasons and fire, of permanent water and ephemeral soaks. It is also a topographic replica of the landscape around Parnngurr in Western Australia: ranges and sand-hills, creeks and rock holes. The Minyipuru (Seven Sisters) flit across the western side of the painting, pursued by the mischievous Yurla. Their presence in the painting is incidental, just one strand in the fabric of Martu daily life.
Kumpaya Girgirba with Nola Taylor, 2017:
Minyipuru are stars when they starting is summertime, yalijarra ... That’s when it’s good time for rain, good time for hunting, for burning, nyurnma (freshly burnt country) …
When it go to wintertime the Seven Sisters no more … waiting for the summer to come again.
A new #Songlines image. There's a wave like feeling in this orientation. Try turning it for other visual effects. There's rarely a 'right' way up for these.
The Opera House and the "Songlines" light show as part of Vivid.
taken with a 50mm 1.8 hand held detatched from camera body.
Songlines. Maybe a matching pair with yesterday's? Same tree, more watery. Anyway another 'landscape' within the negative landscape of tree bark.
"...Kungkarrakalpa Tjukurrpa creation story (Seven Sisters Dreaming - by Andrea Adamson Tiger from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara - APY Lands in South Australia).
The Seven Sisters songline crosses traditional Country of many different language groups. At prominent landscape features along the Dreaming track are Creation sites that are celebrated in song and in painting. The artist creates these landscapes and tells the story of the Seven Sisters as they move from east to west on their journey. The painting(s) depict the rocky outcrops and the sandhills and rockholes created by the Seven Sisters.
The Seven Sisters are pursued by the man Wati Nyiru. As the sisters flee, their movements create the features of the landscape. The sisters eventually escape by flying into the sky to become the Pleiades star cluster, while Wati Nyiru becomes the constellation Orion.
These Ancestors are represented in the sky by constellations which emerge from the horizon every night to make the epic journey."
Andrea Adamson - share.google/Zo07chmuSnbf4c0hO
Pleiades - share.google/vnAaePlU4TrH3zLXk
Sydney Opera House transformed into an animated canvas for the Vivid Festival of Music, Light and Ideas.
2016 theme for the Opera house is the Australian Indigenous 'Songlines'.
A different perspective for a change.
Dot painting consists of various paint colors like yellow (representing the sun), brown (the soil), red (desert sand) and white (the clouds and the sky). These are traditional Aboriginal colors. Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they were painted on rocks, in caves, etc. The paintings were mostly images of animals or lakes, and the dreamtime Stories and legends were depicted on caves and rocks to represent the artists' religion and beliefs.
On modern artwork, dots are generally applied with one of two instruments, bamboo satay sticks and ink bottles. The larger flat end of bamboo satay sticks are more commonly used for single application of dots to paintings, but the sharp pointier end is used to create fine dots. To create superimposed dotting, artists may take a bunch of satay sticks, dip the pointy ends into the paint and then transfer it onto the canvas in quick successions of dotting
The theme this year is our indigenous people.
The Sails are illuminated with the work of six Indigenous artists, celebrating the celestial Songlines of Australian Aboriginal astronomy.
More information here : www.sydney.com/destinations/sydney/sydney-city/vivid-sydney
and about indigenous Australian art here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_art#Dot_painting
Thank you all for your interest in my representations of this year's Vivid Sydney.
Cheers and have a great Sunday.
Norbert
I love the kid with the light sabre in this one, hence the name.
Dot painting consists of various paint colors like yellow (representing the sun), brown (the soil), red (desert sand) and white (the clouds and the sky). These are traditional Aboriginal colors. Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they were painted on rocks, in caves, etc. The paintings were mostly images of animals or lakes, and the dreamtime Stories and legends were depicted on caves and rocks to represent the artists' religion and beliefs.
On modern artwork, dots are generally applied with one of two instruments, bamboo satay sticks and ink bottles. The larger flat end of bamboo satay sticks are more commonly used for single application of dots to paintings, but the sharp pointier end is used to create fine dots. To create superimposed dotting, artists may take a bunch of satay sticks, dip the pointy ends into the paint and then transfer it onto the canvas in quick successions of dotting
The theme this year is our indigenous people.
The Sails are illuminated with the work of six Indigenous artists, celebrating the celestial Songlines of Australian Aboriginal astronomy.
More information here : www.sydney.com/destinations/sydney/sydney-city/vivid-sydney
and about indigenous Australian art here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_art#Dot_painting
Thank you all for your interest in my representations of this year's Vivid Sydney.
Cheers and have a great week.
Norbert
I spent two and a half hours att his location on Thursday 16.06.2016, and if Vivid was still going, I could still be there. It is an amazing piece of water to watch when all the boats and ferries are lit in colours and zooming around the harbour, coupled with the 15 minute songlines on the Opera House Sails and it is a breathtaking experience.While I am yet to be happy with any of these edits (from this position) in this one you can see one of the tall ships (blue shade) sweeping under the bridge and across towards the opera house.
karl chilcott the last rainbow. a song line
local stone, animal bones
seventh palmer sculpture biennial, eastern scarp of the mount lofty ranges, south australia
Every here and then, lines are etched by Time, wind, and our souls. Some remain intact as rocks, or our octaves. Others blow around as sand, or a song.
PS-1: The title is inspired by a namesake poem by the Australian poet, Nola Gregory.
PS-2: Play with the brightness of your monitor. This image sings differently with varying light.
Sydney Opera House Vivid Festival.
'Songlines', the theme for 2016,' Lighting of the Sails'.
Sydney Opera House is transformed into an animated canvas of Australian Indigenous Art.
Opera House,
Vivid Festival,
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The Vivid Festival is a annual festival of lights, music, and ideas, that runs for about 3 weeks each year in Sydney.
The main attraction is the light installations and light projections around Sydney.
Some of Sydney's most recognisable & iconic buildings are lit up by amazing light projections.
These include: Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Customs House, and Sydney Uni.
Vivid has grown to include several areas around Sydney including Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, The Rocks, Martin Place, and Chatswood.
In 2016 a few more areas were added to the festival including: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Taronga Park Zoo, and Central Park.
Also featured during the festival are concerts by local and international artists.
Thirdly, there is a series of lectures and talks on various topics.
It has become one of the biggest public events in Australia, and is recognised internationally as a major event.
Overseas & local tourists visit Sydney in numbers during the annual event.
Vivid now attracts a massive 1.5 million people each year.
Thanks to the Steve McCurry school of photo editing my photography has NEVER looked better, after all SEEING is BELIEVING!
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"Lighting The Sails 'Songlines'
World Premiere, Sydney Only
Directed by the Head of Indigenous Programming at Sydney Opera House Rhoda Roberts
Co-curated by Sydney Opera House and Destination NSW
Visual content and animation created by Artists in Motion
Lighting the Sails for the eighth year of Vivid Sydney, Sydney Opera House will transform into an animated canvas of Australian indigenous art featuring iconic contemporary works from Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu."
My tribute to Bruce Chatwin
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Lighting the Sails 'Songlines" - Artists in Motion.
Vivid Festival
Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point, Sydney
Australia.
The Vivid Festival is a annual festival of lights, music, and ideas, that runs for about 3 weeks each year in Sydney.
The main attraction is the light installations and light projections around Sydney.
Some of Sydney's most recognisable & iconic buildings are lit up by amazing light projections.
These include: Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Customs House, and Sydney Uni.
Vivid has grown to include several areas around Sydney including Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, The Rocks, Martin Place, and Chatswood.
In 2016 a few more areas were added to the festival including: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Taronga Park Zoo, and Central Park.
Also featured during the festival are concerts by local and international artists.
Thirdly, there is a series of lectures and talks on various topics.
It has become one of the biggest public events in Australia, and is recognised internationally as a major event.
Overseas & local tourists visit Sydney in numbers during the annual event.
Vivid now attracts a massive 1.5 million people each year.
"For generations back, into forgotten time, his fathers before him had sowed grain; solemnly, on a still, calm evening, best with a gentle fall of warm and misty rain, soon after the grey-goose flight. Potatoes were a new thing, nothing mystic, nothing religious; women and children could plant them - earth apples that came from foreign parts, like coffee; fine food, but much like turnips and beets. Grain was nothing less than bread; grain or no grain meant life or death." - Knut Hamsun, "Growth of the Soil" (1920).
And so we learn of Norwegian life on the land, and see the parallels with life in 19th century Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land). The generations of the Rockliffs who've farmed this land continue to this day. And young Jeremy Rockliff, who attended Sassafras Primary School, is today the Deputy Premier of Tasmania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rockliff
Living off the land. It was for Knut Hamsun the closest thing to a religious duty in life. For the Rockliffs it was no less important.
But what of the "generations back, into forgotten time"? Ah, now we really touch on sacred ground. For thousands of years indigenous people trod this ground. They lived off it, and moved around it - as was customary to their nomadic way of life.
But this wasn't just a piece of "real estate". This was land gifted to each subsequent generation by their ancestors. I've said recently that Modern people live in a state of perpetual Forgetfulness. Our memories are dull and shallow. But if you listen to the people of our Heartlands, if you listen to their songs that tell of the sacred meaning in the "Songlines", you will know that this is "solid rock, sacred ground".
None of us can claim to own this Land, we are merely its stewards and custodians. We are the daughters and sons of this soil.
My tribute to Bruce Chatwin
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Some of the photographs of Melbourne artist Reko Rennie's work displayed on the Iconic Opera House at this year's Vivid Sydney.
Some of the photographs of Melbourne artist Reko Rennie's work displayed on the Iconic Opera House at this year's Vivid Sydney. Reko Rennie (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay/Gummaroi)
Through his art Reko explores what it means to be an urban Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society. Rennie received no formal artistic training but as a teenager discovered graffiti which became an all-consuming passion. His art and installations continually explore issues of identity, race, law & justice, land rights, stolen generations and other issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in contemporary society.
Snippets from the "Songlines" display celebrtating the first Australian's culture and art on the Opera House sails.
There are so many good parts to this that a single photo just cant do it justice.