Collab Echoes: Echoes of the Murray River. Curated audio telling stories of the Murray River, using artifacts from the cultural institutions of North Terrace, Kaurna country. Presented by the Growing Data Foundation, inaugural Collab Fellowship recipients. Over 2022, we will be adding content and running co-design workshops so keep your eyes and ears peeled...https://collabsa.net

A lot of the water that flows through this fountain was pumped all the way from the Murray River.
Many creatures live in the river and it's backwaters. Sometimes the sounds and songs they make travel along with the water and end up here...

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This is a trial text which could have any type of information you want in it - prompting participants to notice something or to listen to a song, a story, a recollection...

Doc Hanson recalls working on the family farm as a very young man.

Robbie Burns has some advice regarding the benefits of water

This is an iBeacon test. Spotted Marsh Frog.

One of the local frogs found in both the Torrens and the MurrayRivers Audio courtesy of Steve Brown.

The distinctive call of the Eastern Banjo Frog,(Limnodynastes dumerlii) found in the both the Torrens and Murray Rivers. Recording courtesy of Steve Brown.

Eastern Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerlii)

The Brown Tree Frog (Litoria ewingi) is the only tree frog found naturally around Adelaide, usually in damp vegetation or ground or around streams, lakes and ponds. Recording courtesy of Steve Brown.

The Spotted Grass Frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) is distributed widely about South Australia. Recording courtesy of Steve Brown.

Spotted Grass Frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)

Steve Brown on why frogs matter when it comes to our water

Sonification of environmental data over a period of years from Lock One

starling

goldfinch

hoopoe

Excerpt from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, by Charles Sturt.
In November 1829 Sturt set out to further explore the western rivers and to determine where the Darling flowed. He hoped that the rivers drained into a central sea. His subsequent discovery of the Murrumbidgee-Murray-Darling river system, and his journey down the Murray to Lake Alexandrina and back, established him as Australia’s pre-eminent explorer. He described fertile river flats between the lower Murray and the Mount Lofty Ranges in his book "Two expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia" (1833)

David Unaipon, Ngarrindjeri man, was a preacher, public speaker, educator, inventor and the first Aboriginal writer to publish in English. 

He was born at Raukkan in the Coorong in 1872, son of Yaraldi  parents from the lower murray. 

As an inventor he took out nine patent applications between 1909 and 1944. His particular interest lay in converting rotary to linear motion.

You can view the 1909 Patent specification for Mechanically driven Sheep shears at the Treasure Wall at the State Library of South Australia.

Data: Flow into SA	Instrument: Marimba	Key: C Major	Scale range: 4 Octaves	Track Tempo: 6x	Arpeggio: Ascending

Data: Red Gum Innundation Percentage	Instrument: Double Bass	Key: C Major	Scale range: 3 Octaves	Track Tempo: 2x	Arpeggio: Ascending

Data: Black Box Innundation Percentage	Instrument: Trumpet	Key: C Major	Scale range: 3 Octaves	Track Tempo: 4x	Arpeggio: Ascending

Data: Saline shrubland Innundation Percentage	Instrument: Harp	Key: C Major	Scale range: 2 Octaves	Track Tempo: 4x	

Data: Lignum Innundation Percentage	Instrument: Glockenspiel	Key: C Major	Scale range: 2 Octaves	Track Tempo: 1x

Data: Agriculture/horticulture Innundation Percentage	Instrument: Harp	Key: C Minor	Scale range: 2 Octaves	Track Tempo: 1x

Data Sonification, wetland innundation below Lock 1 by flow rate into SA

Collab Echoes: Echoes of the Murray River. Curated audio telling stories of the Murray River, using artifacts from the cultural institutions of North Terrace, Kaurna country.

Collab Echoes: Echoes of the Murray River

Collab is a joint venture between the South Australian Museum, the History Trust of South Australia, the State Library of South Australia, The Botanic gardens and the Art Gallery of South Australia to promote the discovery of their digital collections.

Collab Echoes: Echoes of the Murray River

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DOWNLOAD OUR APP TO DISCOVER THIS TOUR AND MANY OTHERS.

The Echoes

Bill's Fountain

Galahs

Watersounds1

A 14 year old in charge of i8 horses

Robbie Burns

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