dirtsong, Premiere
3 August 2009
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival in association with Arts House and in collaboration with The Black Arm Band.
dirtsong is a music performance from Aboriginal Australia mixing traditional and contemporary songs, existing repertoire with newly commissioned music and sung in many Indigenous Australian languages.
A narrative about country, dirtsong evokes a sense of geographical place and country as a series of encounters, memories, occurrences, obligations and nature.
With words from Miles Franklin Award-winning author Alexis Wright (Carpentaria), these songs evoke a new conceptual and emotional map of Australia's heartland while gently awakening some of Australia's sleeping languages.
The Black Arm Band is a collection of many of Australia's premiere Aboriginal musicians. The ensemble performs, promotes and celebrates contemporary Australian Indigenous music. Its members come from across Australia and embody diverse musical, linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
Performed in Australian Aboriginal languages against a backdrop of lyrical film imagery.
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