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Item ID
WM2-006
Title Sayes Arares
Description About Sayes Arares:

A sonic documentary of kustom, ancestral songs, and stories. Chambri Lakes, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

A song and music form that features the ensemble of bamboo flute and garamut players. On this journey, the Sayes Arare songs are performed in a unique sound and tumbuna (ancestral) belief system held and told in the playing of the mambu (bamboo) flutes.

A poetic multichannel visual and sonic documentary that takes the audience deep into the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. On this journey we hear the Sayes Arares songs: a unique sound and tumbuna (ancestral) belief system held and told in the playing of the mambu (bamboo) flutes by Musicians of Changriman Village (Mambu flute).

A collaborative project by musicians Gaius Wapi, Pius Wasi, Joachim Mamambi, and David Bridie, with video artist K.Verell and the many cultural artists from Changriman Village, Chambri Lakes extending on a creative relationship that has spanned over 30 years.

Sayes Arares cultural background is a unique sound and belief, sacred ground music connecting the environment with the spirit world. It brings reflection on village life and family. It encompasses the lake which we live next to. These are ancestral songs about day to day living, spirit stories, laws, morality and customs of this Chambri Lakes region.

Sayes Arares connects the everyday and the spirit world. It is a style of bamboo flute playing that originates from the village of Yambe Yambe-its began with a dispute over the killing of the pig-Wa Gwa Sok Os.

This installation preserves our songs, language and dances, and introduces you all to unique art culture and custom. It is something we would like to share with you and the rest of the world. We would like to preserve and archive this practice for our future generations and for other people to respect and learn about our unique cultural practice Wapok Wapok.

Sayes Arares songs and recordings

Blue Screen Studio. https://bluescreen.studio/sayes-arares/
Paul Mason and Photography Keith Deverell

Sayes Arares Opening Helen Warambemag

1. Sayes Arares Opening Helen Warambemag
2. Sayes Arares Sintamp Pinimenan - Abandon Ship - Pius Wasi
3. Sayes Arares Mambu Haus Tambaran
4. Sayes Arares Wasi Simbo
5. Sayes Arares Nanganasi Gaius Wapi

https://www.davidbridie.com/art-projects/sayes-arare

Source: Wantok Musik

(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, May 2025)
Origination date 2023-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/006
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Collector
David Bridie
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Language as given
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Region / village Changriman Lakes, Ambunti, East Sepik Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
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DOI 10.26278/p7zp-7161
Cite as David Bridie (collector), 2023. Sayes Arares. X-MATROSKA/MP4. WM2-006 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/p7zp-7161
Content Files (2)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
WM2-006-001.mkv video/x-matroska 37.8 GB 00:40:02.500
WM2-006-001.mp4 video/mp4 3.95 GB 00:40:02.500
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Collection Information
Collection ID WM2
Collection title Wantok Musik Foundation (WMF) - Music Label Recordings of Oceania Region.
Description The Wantok Musik Foundation is an Australian-based not-for-profit Music Label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from Indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. The brand “Wantok Musik” is a Melanesian term that reflects talking with a common language “one talk” although in the diverse cultures of the region that may have different sounds, different beats, different instruments, the music we all share is common and singing about the same things such as our history, our lore, our education, our hurts, our joys, our injustices, our struggles, our lives, our communities and our stories. This Collection preserves rich musical talents and artists of the Oceania region where the Wantok Musik Label through album recordings and collaborative projects has fostered cross-cultural initiatives and exchange. Through music and language within the diverse cultures of the region, we hear, share and learn about entertainers, performers and artistic and creative expressions where over the years, the Wantok Musik label has recorded, released and promoted of music from First Nation Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. Wantok Musik promotes local and international profile of First Nation and world music groups based in the region by supporting and providing greater economic opportunity for artists, long-term career sustainability at the same time by managing the various activities addresses social issues with creative and culturally focused approaches.
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Edit access Mihka Chee
David Bridie
View/Download access Mihka Chee
David Bridie
Data access conditions Closed (subject to the access condition details)
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