Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
---- Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer & philosopher who has lost his way in life. I used to be a policy wonk. Now, as a knowledge worker I have trouble learning to live in a complex digital world. Personal expression is the way I critically cope in a technological mode of being.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, a former member of Yothu Yindi, now with Saltwater Band, also has a solo profile. On 'Djarimirri', which is about Gurrumul's spiritual connection with the land, Geoffry is supported by bassist Michael Hohnen, the producer of Yunupingu's new album, Gurrumul.
The album Gurrumul is on Skinnyfish Music. He is using e is using a modern medium - an voice and guitar plus the musical styles of gospel, soul and folk - to tell the traditional stories of his people and his culture. What is produced is a form of Aboriginal music that is accessible to Western audiences.
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