Collection details
Collection ID MK1
Title Wamin Songs Archive
Description For the completion of Markos Koumoulas’ Ph.D. dissertation, “The Ancient Voice of the Future: Reawakening Ewamian Song and Language” (forthcoming, 2025), and in collaboration with world-renowned Ewamian and Western Yalanji didjeridu player, David Bindi Hudson, this archive presents a collection of fieldwork materials in the Cairns region from March 2022 to March 2023. The aim of this research project is the revitalization of the Wamin (Ewamian) language through song. The first component of this project is the creation and recording of new Ewamian 'classical' Aboriginal music. Secondly, is the development of an Ewamian-based didjeridu notation derived from Ewamian cultural symbology and rock art to help facilitate the documentation of Ewamian music and language.
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MK1
Collector
Markos Koumoulas
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Operator Nick Ward
Originating university University of Sydney
Countries
Australia - AU
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Languages
English - eng
Wamin - wmi
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DOI 10.26278/3xdt-n082
Cite as Markos Koumoulas (collector), 2022. Wamin Songs Archive. Collection MK1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/3xdt-n082
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Items in Collection (15)

Item Title Actions
20220728 Discussing writing and recording Wamin songs, and how to utilize the didjeridu as a teaching tool for language learning View
20220804 Strategies for writing songs in Wamin – a sleeping language with very little vocabulary View
20220818 Brainstorming didjeridu rhythms comprised of Wamin vocabulary View
20220901 Wamin language workshop View
20220929 First day recording Wamin songs View
20221002 Second day recording Wamin songs View
20221005 Third day recording Wamin songs feat. Carl Fourmile and Linton Schrieber View
20221119 Wamin songs songwriting session View
20221121 Fourth day recording Wamin songs View
20221122 Fifth day recording Wamin songs feat. Richard Bing Jr. and T’Emma Amber Bing View
20221123 Sixth day recording Wamin songs feat. Richard Bing Jr. View
20221127 Final day recording Wamin songs feat. Jedess Hudson View
20221201 Yarning with Richard Bing Jr. about Ewamian music, language, and culture View
20221220 Editing and mixing Wamin songs View
20230106 Presenting Wamin songs to linguist Cassy Nancarrow View

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