The Marrpan (Green Turtle) project. Session to be led by Mandawuy Yunipingu.

1. Translation and explication of texts of Marrpan (Green Turtle) manikay series.
This project will work towards a fully documented CD for commercial release. A draft CD with 60 tracks has already been prepared. Various strategies for presentation of explanatory material will be discussed here and elsewhere in the Symposium and it is our hope that the experience of all participants will be brought to bear on this aspect of the project.

2. Recording of further performances of Marrpan series.
We hope to make futher recordings of the Marrpan series in the course of the Symposium, and to document these according to the strategies devised with regard to the existing recordings.

3. Artistic responses to Marrpan series.
Mandawuy has asked that all participants respond artistically to the presentations of knowledge concerning Marrpan by him and other Yolngu performers and intellectuals. Creations may be in the form of songs, dances, paintings, poems, or whatever media are appropriate. On the final day there will be an exchange of these materials between participants.

Presentation on the repatriation of archival material to communities.

Don Niles (Institute of Papua New Guinean Studies)

Repatriating historical recordings: Locating them, Getting them, and Making use of them.Peter Toner (ANU)
Yolngu Music: Anthropological and Indigenous Perspectives (recorded presentation)
This presentation will focus on the digitization and repatriation of recordings of Yolngu music, made primarily in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, back to their communities of origin and back to the descendants of the singers who were recorded. I am interested in giving Yolngu a voice in the writing of this history through an ethnographic examination of contemporary memories of old recordings and the singers who made them, of current opinion on musical change, and of the many ways that Yolngu communities will integrate these old recordings into contemporary life.

Allan Marett and Linda Barwick (Sydney University)
The design and use of the digital audio workstation at Belyuen.
In 2002 the Belyuen community received a grant from the NTLIS to set up a digital audio workstation to allow community members access to the many recordings that have been made in Belyuen since 1943. This presentation will discuss the design the design of the work station, which is basically an iMac running iTunes, and a delivery system in CD and cassette format. A short film will show the initial meetings at which issues of access and ownership were decided, and examples of community members using the archive. These events occurred only in the last two weeks.

The Marrpan (Green Turtle) project. Session to be led by Mandawuy Yunipingu.

1. Translation and explication of texts of Marrpan (Green Turtle) manikay series.
This project will work towards a fully documented CD for commercial release. A draft CD with 60 tracks has already been prepared. Various strategies for presentation of explanatory material will be discussed here and elsewhere in the Symposium and it is our hope that the experience of all participants will be brought to bear on this aspect of the project.

2. Recording of further performances of Marrpan series.
We hope to make futher recordings of the Marrpan series in the course of the Symposium, and to document these according to the strategies devised with regard to the existing recordings.

3. Artistic responses to Marrpan series.
Mandawuy has asked that all participants respond artistically to the presentations of knowledge concerning Marrpan by him and other Yolngu performers and intellectuals. Creations may be in the form of songs, dances, paintings, poems, or whatever media are appropriate. On the final day there will be an exchange of these materials between participants.

Presentation on the repatriation of archival material to communities.

Don Niles (Institute of Papua New Guinean Studies)

Repatriating historical recordings: Locating them, Getting them, and Making use of them.Peter Toner (ANU)
Yolngu Music: Anthropological and Indigenous Perspectives (recorded presentation)
This presentation will focus on the digitization and repatriation of recordings of Yolngu music, made primarily in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, back to their communities of origin and back to the descendants of the singers who were recorded. I am interested in giving Yolngu a voice in the writing of this history through an ethnographic examination of contemporary memories of old recordings and the singers who made them, of current opinion on musical change, and of the many ways that Yolngu communities will integrate these old recordings into contemporary life.

Allan Marett and Linda Barwick (Sydney University)
The design and use of the digital audio workstation at Belyuen.
In 2002 the Belyuen community received a grant from the NTLIS to set up a digital audio workstation to allow community members access to the many recordings that have been made in Belyuen since 1943. This presentation will discuss the design the design of the work station, which is basically an iMac running iTunes, and a delivery system in CD and cassette format. A short film will show the initial meetings at which issues of access and ownership were decided, and examples of community members using the archive. These events occurred only in the last two weeks.

Presentations on sending performances out from communities.
Witiyana Marika and Steven Knopoff
Performing Yolngu Songs in Public Concerts
Yolngu have been performing traditional songs in public concerts for many decades, sharing some of the most vibrant forms of sacred culture with non-Aboriginal audiences across Australia and around the world.This session will focus on some of the different expectations and experiences of performers and audiences, and will consider ideas for increasing cultural awareness on the part of non-Aboriginal audiences and event organisers.

Members of the Belyuen community, Lysbeth Ford and Allan Marett

Producing the CD Rak Badjalarr: documentation strategies, community response, legal and other issues
This presentation will focus on the production of the CD ‘Rak Badjalarr: wangga songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane’ which published recently by the Aboriginal Studies Press. This CD is one of the most comprehensively documented CDs of Aboriginal music ever to have been produced. It is accompanied by a booklet that gives all song texts in Batjamalh with English translations, as well as essays on wangga and its role in ceremony, the life of Bobby Lane, song composition etc. The strategies adopted were discussed with the many community members who assisted on this project, and the CD recently been launched at Belyuen. These and other matters to do with the question of how best to present knowledge about songs will be discussed..

Dinah a-Marrangawi Norman, Jemima a-Wuwarlu Miller, Rosie a-Makurndurna Noble and Liz Mackinlay
Teaching and learning Yanyuwa women's music and dance at the University of Queensland: A negotiated space".
In this presentation Dr Liz Mackinlay, and senior Yanyuwa women Dinah a-Marrangawi Norman, Jemima a-Wuwarlu Miller and Rosie a-Makurndurna Noble will discuss the process of taching and learning Yanyuwa women's music and dance at the University of Queensland. They will talk about how Yanyuwa women's knowledgeof song and dance is negotiated for presentation in this mainstream context, the types of knowledge presented, how it is presented and who presents, and the way students respond