Sensing Environments: Overnight Forest, Bli Bli - Blake Cawthan

The land housing the Sippy Downs campus teems with life and vitality. Establishing a connection between the campus's natural surroundings and sensory experiences is integral to creating a distinctive environment. Take your time to immerse yourself in nature, listen attentively to the soundscape, and experience the diverse array of bird calls, insect chirps, rainfall, underwater ambience, and even the subtle rustling of trees you may have never noticed before. These sounds will continue to loop until you step outside the circle.

Embark on an exhilarating journey into the vibrant world of plants. Immerse yourself in the enchanting melodies resonating from the depths of their roots, and prepare to encounter the wonders of the natural world in a manner that will captivate your senses like never before.

This is for our workshop

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters upon which the University's campuses are located. We acknowledge their continuing connections to the Country and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Welcome to your integrated experience of the beautiful art collection found around the University of the Sunshine Coast. Here you will find information about the amazing featured artists' work that we are very grateful to have on our campus. You will hear Megan Williams talk about some of the amazing artwork we have on the campus. Megan is a curator and writer with over fifteen years of experience in programming and management roles across the university art museum sector. This walk is designed to give you information of each art, recommend downloading the walk for a better optimal experience. Please listen to the end before moving to the next echo to make sure the audio does not overlap and don't forget to tap each echo to ensure you view each image. Now feel welcome to immerse yourself in this experience and enjoy the beautiful art and the information.

Preview this traditional canoe (currently undergoing routine maintenance) that will soon be ready for public viewing. The bark canoe has been crafted using traditional techniques, brimming with historic and cultural significance. Narrated by Lyndon Davis

This is an example for DES304

You spend a day the Mary Cairncross rainforest during a rainy day.

This work is part of a research project between Leah Barclay, Tricia King and Lyndon Davis exploring site-responsive photography, immersive soundscape and Indigenous knowledge. The work explores methods of seeing sound and hearing images through a locative media walk with photography and soundscapes. This is the third iteration of Holocene - which responds to an immersive sound walk of the same name along the edge of the lake at Boreen Point for Floating Land 2021. The work references the current period of geologic time that corresponds with the global changes caused by human activities and technological revolutions. It explores the tensions present in UNESCO biosphere reserves, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges and contradictions of sustainable development. The audience walked along the edge of the lake at dusk with their feet in the water wearing wireless headphones and listening to a live soundscape mix. The acoustic ecology focused around the Noosa Biosphere Reserve revealing invisible ecosystems we usually cannot hear including hydrophones deep in the everglades and microbats navigating the surface of the lake at dusk. The experience draws on the voices of traditional owners, including Lyndon Davis who is a key collaborator on this research. For this locative experience, Leah has created a soundscape in response to Tricia's images from the original sound walk at Boreen Point and additionally imagery from their collaboration project Listening in the Wild - www.listeninginthewild.com

This walk is a quiet meeting point between two places I know well: Dilkusha, a rainforest property near Maleny where my grandfather lives, and the grounds of UniSC, where I study and think and walk every day. Using sound, story, and memory, I’ve brought fragments of Dilkusha into the spaces of the university. Footsteps through puddles, the call of the Lewin’s honeyeater, water trickling over stone—each stop along the path carries a small part of the land my grandfather has tended for decades. This is an attempt to listen more deeply. To walk slower. To consider the stories rooted in the ground beneath us—both those we inherit and those we’re still learning how to hear. Put on your headphones, and take your time.