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December 5, 2025

How we created new Noongar song and dance for kworlak – the bull sharks of Perth

Trevor Ryan, Edith Cowan University; Clint Bracknell, The University of Western Australia, and Jonathan W. Marshall, Edith Cowan University

Noongar dance can restore connections between those who live in Perth and the sharks who swim in the city’s river.

Gurindji singers Thomas Monkey Yikapayi, Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpa and Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal sing ‘Wanji-wanji’. Brenda L Croft

March 20, 2019

Aboriginal Australia’s smash hit that went viral

Myfany Turpin, University of Sydney; Brenda L Croft, Australian National University; Clint Bracknell, Edith Cowan University, and Felicity Meakins, The University of Queensland

Wanji-wanji’s lyrics have remained unchanged over thousands of kilometres and the past 150 years.

Could music one day be something we experience through augmented reality, responding to the way we move through the world? Sound supplemented with colours and shapes? Mavis Wong/The Conversation NY-BD-CC

August 30, 2018

Trust Me, I’m An Expert: How augmented reality may one day make music a visual, interactive experience

Juliana Yu, The Conversation; Shelley Hepworth, The Conversation, and Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

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Today, we're hearing about a researcher who records birdsong, how tech changes music and why song might help address Indigenous language loss.

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