SonicMaps
presents
Regional Echoes
Take a virtual sound walk through regional and rural Victoria on our interactive sonic map. Click the pins to hear artist reflections on writing place, place as character, writing the country and landscape, small towns in the so-called-Australian literary canon and more.
Presented in partnership with State Library Victoria
Creator: Emerging Writers' Festival
Published: 14 June 2021
🎧Audio Samples
'The Call of Country' by Renay Barker-Mulholland
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"Country cannot be defined as a noun or a verb, it’s a fundamental part of my wellbeing in a physical and spiritual sense. You nourish it and it nourishes you."
'Regional Echoes' by Will Farnsworth
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"It was after a storm would pass through, where the rare slithers of light would briefly warm the battered landscape, that we would take a walk up the softened terrain across the hill that would oversee the estate, where a small pack of tree’s would rest."
Michael Chan
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"I know it’s busy and bustling by the time we begin our golden era, but our days have never been easier to make ends meet."