Playing around is one of my favourite things to do. Normally I don’t record these solo jams, but today I was curious how it sounded from the outside. 

La Mama, is listening for the future

Listen for the Future here

I recently made some drawings in an online drawing class.

Farhad Bandesh and I have made a new song, to highlight the suffering of indefinite detention. You can show support by purchasing the song here or by donating to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Link to the song Freedom here

Image: Manus Island, 2018

Its hollow lung believes lazily from within the little songs of the mutilated

Click to listen to the album

From the site: “Its hollow lung believes lazily from within the…” is the thirty-third volume of Exquisite Corpse music from the sound art collective Little Songs Of The Mutilated. Created between July 13th-18th 2020, the process adapts the old Surrealist parlour game for an online sound and music collaboration. The 6 pieces were worked on concurrently, one round per day, each with an unique permutation to the order of players to maximize both the variety in results and challenge in the process. The only parameter predetermined was the duration of each contribution, in an effort to democratize the process and authorship.

I was so happy to be invited to participate on such a great project.

The heartbeat of kipli paywuta lumi was a 60-minute sound piece produced by Koori artist Anna Liebzeit in collaboration with palawa kani speakers. Capturing and combining the unique sounds of the Cape Barren Island fiddle played by Merinda Sainty, Country and language, Liebzeit’s hauntingly powerful soundtrack vibrates through time and place, creating a fluid narrative of Pakana connection to the elements. 

https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4846/palawa-kani-expressing-the-power-of-language-in-ar/

Artlink, 2020

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-22/mona-foma-festival-review-launceston-pride-key-to-success/11887842

This is one version of a song I wrote called Massacre Town, in 2016.

Picture: Nicole Garmston

Timoleon (5yrs) and I have started a band, we’re called the Bum Wipers… yes, really. This is our song called Hellobyebyeno… “I want to… go back to… schooool”.

This little punk tells what quarantine is like when your in prep. He’s gotten the wash your hands message and is missing his friends (I wanna go back to school).  xx

Weaving work made across geo and cultural spaces. Making audio for the SMOKE project on Yuin Country was a deep collaborate practice with Kirk Page, Ria Soemardjo and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and myself working with body, movement, voice and instrumentation. I created audio embedding the conceptual work of our SMOKE residency, 2019.

Australian Aboriginal and Intercultural Artists Indonesia Dance Exchange Featuring Shae Terese Swan Duncan, Jaymen Leigh Drahm, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal Video filmed by Syamsul Icul Barry at Gunung Merapi (Merapi Mountain) and Candi Borobudur (Borobudur Temple), Java, Indonesia.

Whilst in Bali the Australian Aboriginal and Intercultural Artists, Indonesia Dance Exchange connected with Tebo Aumbara at Bali Life Studio and also presented performance workshops at Argung Rai Museum of Art and Palangi School. Video featuring Shae Terese Swan Duncan, Jaymen Leigh Drahm, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal Video filmed at Jimbaran Bay, Bali, Indonesia.

SMOKE Dance Exchange May 2019 Pulau Kaja, Palangkaraya Kalimantan, Indonesia Indigenous Dayak art and culture group Sanggar Lunuk Ramba with Australian Aboriginal and Intercultural Artists Featuring Novalis Antai Putra, Christian Justin Rimbat, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Jaymen Leigh Drahm Cultural Development Helen Tyas Tunggal, Yonathan Philip Thomas. Music design created during SMOKE production process with Kirk Page, Anna Liebzeit, Ria Soemardjo, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal Dayak. Additional music by Sanggar Lunuk Ramba – Lunuk = sacred banyan tree (beringin) Ramba = shade and fertile.

SMOKE Dance Exchange May 2019 Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Indonesia Creative process experience hosted by the Spirit of the Hornbill Dance Academy with Indigenous Dayak Dancers from Sanggar Darung Tingang also Sanggar Lunuk Ramba and Australian Aboriginal and Intercultural Artists Featuring Freticia Frivinca Yuasius, Charisma, Indri Priscilla, Entridiyanasteti, Ade Evan Susanto, Novalis Antai Putra, Christian Justin Rimbat, Efrelyn Arlinda, Yetri Christiani, Shae Terese Swan Duncan, Jaymen Leigh Drahm Cultural Development Siti Habibah, Meranti Rimbat, Helen Tyas Tunggal, Yonathan Philip Thomas, Rimbat B. Kusin, Apriyadi.

Video’s produced by Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal