Neighbourhoods began the new term celebrating national NAIDOC week and exploring the way it feels to hear music and the relationship of music to mark-making. In joining together with Deb’s music program and inspired by the Spinifex Gum Collective students were encouraged to see sound and music as a painting.
‘Spinifex Gum are an award-winning all-female ensemble, Marliya – Cairns-based ensemble of Aboriginal and Torres Strait teenage singers, conducted by Lyn Williams AM of Gondwana Choirs. Their songs bring together a blend of harmony and protest singing in both English and Yindjibarndi, while generating awareness of political and environmental activity taking place on this country'(Spinifex Gum 2024)
Students explored the shared attributes of both drawing and music such as experimenting with contrast, tone, tempo, repetition and modulation and capturing sounds that are translucent or opaque, loud, soft, meandering and melodic.
Students also viewed and discussed NAIDOC week artworks, – Ura pun Muy (One Fire) (2024) by Samuawgadhalgal, Torres Strait Islander artist Deb Belyea and Keep the Fire Burning; Blak Loud & Proud( 2024) by proud Ngarabal/Gomeroii man Jeremy Worrall (Wright).
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