Penrith Miers Archive

Until the last few hundred years, people have usually had easy access to old and new music from where they live to make sense of how to live there. These songs have contained intimate knowledge of every human, animal, plant, change, and drama in one’s local environment. They have directly enabled people to understand their relationship with their community/Country and to find belonging. To enable such connections for their own community today, Wiradjuri/Yuin archivist Madika Penrith and Batemans Bay ethnomusicologist Sam Miers have spent the last few years building compilations of half Indigenous and half newcomer sound through time from NSW.