About the Event
SMARTPHONE APP| INTERACTIVE AUDIO JOURNEY
What does a place sound like when it starts telling its own story?
Albany Is, gathers the voices and soundscapes of the people who shaped this extraordinary place.
Part oral history, part interactive podcast, Albany Is invites you to walk through town in the company of the people who know it best.
Free to listen. Download now: Apple. Android.
What is Albany Is?
Albany Is, an app-based immersive audio experience that draws on more than 170 recorded interviews.
From Menang Elders and broader Noongar community members whose connection to this Country stretches back tens of thousands of years, to post-war migrants who built new lives from the ground up, to teenagers figuring out what this place means to them right now.
The journeys are organised around themes that emerged directly from the interviews: the visceral industrial past of the whaling station and the Woollen Mills; the farmers and scientists now repairing the ecological damage those industries left behind; the routes people have taken to reach this corner of the continent, and the reasons they stayed.
Other journeys explore Albany's position on the edge of the world, the invisible labour of the women who kept the town running, the kinetic energy of the Snake Run, the decades-long fight for a surf reef, and the powerful convergence where Western science is finally catching up to millennia of Menang knowledge.