#Mallacoota

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Bliss.

One of my favourite photos. Taken at Mallacoota, Victoria.

All those years ago

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Francis MacCabe's Plan of the Survey of the Genoa River, Part 2, 1847, maps the dominant vegetation around Mallacoota Inlet (Vic) up to its head, naming a mosaic of plant communities, mostly 'open forest'.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

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The herbage was probably a combination of yam daisies, bulbine lilies, arthropodium, and others.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[applejee]

someone tell me to STOP being paranoid

[henk-heijmans]

A mother eastern grey kangaroo and her joey, surrounded by burnt trees; survivors of a bushfire in Mallacoota, Australia, 2020 - by Jo-Anne McArthur (1976), Canadian

[burlveneer-music]

ContaQt + Evan Ziporyn + Friends - Poppy 88 - Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" interpreted in real-time by "88 individuals, spread across 60 locations in 23 countries and 6 continents" for his 88th birthday last year

(And I hate that usage of 88 for purely numeric purposes requires an explanation/disclaimer)

On June 24th, 2023, to celebrate Terry Riley's 88th birthday, ContaQt and MIT Sounding presented a global telematic event that resonated – literally - worldwide. At the stroke of midnight EDT, a diverse community of 88 individuals, spread across 60 locations in 23 countries and 6 continents came together online to play music with one another, live and in real-time. With no pre-recorded material, no click tracks, no safety nets or contingency plans, together they performed Poppy 88, a collective composition arranged by Evan Ziporyn, inspired by - and based on - Riley's 1968 recording, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band The livestreamed concert pushed the boundaries of virtual telematic performance, showcasing the transformative power of artistic collaboration combined with smart technology to transcend structural and geographical barriers. While previous live telematic performances have involved larger ensembles, with groups of musicians clustered in 2-12 transmitting stations, this performance distinguished itself by originating from a significantly larger number of locations, 60 in all. This creative repurposing of technology is very much in the spirit of Terry Riley’s original piece. In the 1960’s, Riley utilized tape loops – originally a DIY ‘hack’ of reel-to-reel - to create distant canonic layers of melody: his ‘Phantom Band.’ For this performance, in 2023, the ensemble similarly repurposed the inherent limitations of streaming audio – i.e., physical distance and varying data rates – to conjure similarly complex layered textures. This global virtual event brought together musicians from Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Istanbul, New York City, Pretoria, São Paulo, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw, and more. From Mallacoota, in southeast Australia, to Raufarhöfn, in northeast Iceland, and 58 other locations in between, musicians from a wide range of genres and backgrounds used Audiomovers’ ListenTo to stream their sound to Wawken, Saskatchewan, where Canadian composer/sound artist Jeff Morton mixed and retransmitted their sounds back to them – and the world – in real time. After watching the performance from Mito, Japan, Terry Riley himself joined the livestream to greet the musicians, expressing his profound appreciation: "It felt like the earth itself were singing. You are my community." Listening to the recording almost a year later, he added: “A year has gone by since I last heard it. It is an amazing journey through the sonic ethers of planet Earth. So many awesome musicians were involved. Also, the technical support was amazing without which it could never have happened.I am deeply honored and moved by the efforts of all my music brothers and sisters who contributed their efforts and artistry to make this almost impossible dream a success! ”  Directed by Evan Ziporyn and Jerry Pergolesi Technical Production by Jeff Morton, Wawken Studio Additional Technical Assistance by Andrew Noseworthy

[leavemeinbrunswickstreet]

Suffering does the wolf, crawling to thee

Promising a big fire, any fire

Saying I’m the one, he’s going to take me

I’m on fire, I’m on fire

I’m on fire

Photography: Mallacoota Fire in the Sky (2020) Rachel Mounsey

Lyrics: Ptolemeaa Ethel Cain

[projectourworld]

Hope in a Burned Plantation.

Mallacoota, Australia. Iconic Australia is captured in this particular moment as a resilient kangaroo pauses in a burned eucalyptus plantation. Nearly three billion animals perished or were displaced in the cataclysmic Australian bushfires of 2019 / 2020. This eastern grey kangaroo and her joey represent the lucky survivors, escaping from an area that had been transformed by humans for farming and then devastated by fire.

Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist and the founder of We Animals Media. For almost two decades, she has traveled during a large part of each year to document the plight of animals on all seven continents and share their stories worldwide. She has authored three books and was the subject of a documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine.

Courtesy : The Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition #kangaroo #mallacoota #wildlifephotography #eucalyptus #plantation

[holidayhunteraust]

Off the Beaten Path: The Secret Beach Escape Youve Been Searching For

Mallacoota’s signature turquoise coastline and unique rock formations continue to shine at Secret Beach. Just a 9 minute drive south of Mallacoota, this small yet pristine cove stretches for about a kilometre, peppered with rock formations. Yours might be the only footprints on the sand. A highlight is the hidden sea cave, only accessible at low tide. Walk left (north) from the beach entrance to find the sea cave.

[magicarcherylessons]

hhhh I need to do a formal ranking of my fave birds cos Lyrebird is *up there*. I get to glimpse them every now and then when I go out bush. closest encounter was outside camp after a hike at the Cathedral Ranges, but I'll most reliably come across one over Mallacoota/Genoa way visiting family. exceedingly cool creatures.

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Housekeeping.

Octopus getting comfortable at Mallacoota.

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It was drawn by the surveyor Francis MacCabe in 1847, which is quite early in the European history of the town.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[lancevetrov]

I'm an Aussie and yeah I'm with you here, Summer is the start of bush-fire season. People often lose their homes, sometimes people flat out die.

This photo was taken in 2019 in Mallacoota, Victoria. That's not a filter btw, that's just the sky that's orange due to the burning of dust and debris (Basically what cadhla182 described but our summer is December- February because we're in the opposite hemisphere).

Another photo, this one is from Batemen's Bay, New South Wales, also 2019. A lot of photos that year were of people camped on the beaches or near lakes. Essentially, people couldn't be evacuate quick enough so folks clung to large bodies of water like this.

And here's a map of what the country looked like that year. Every single red, orange, and yellow blob on that map represents a fire. You can't even see where I was living because it's covered.

Here's a "fun" little info graphic for the comparison to fires in other places . 130 Aussie firefighters were actually volunteered to head over to the US in 2018 to help out because rural firefighters here are specifically trained to deal with bush fires on a massive scale.

33 People lost their lives in the 2019-2020 bush-fires.

And due to the ongoing climate crisis, it's only going to get more extreme every year.

If an Aussie tells you they hate summer, there's a good chance that this is the main reason why.

[bella-chrono]

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