Dyerren Dyerren Dragon Tree soundtrack by Boyd.
Threatened native species of the area are named by the Bankstown World Music Choir, in English and in Latin¹. Sydney Aboriginal man, Matthew Doyle, (Muruwari & Eora), enunciates the names of trees in Dharug, and Dharawal local languages², also threatened and now emerging, and the names of dragons, skinks and snakes, along with words that describe a deep Indigenous connection to trees and wood – specific words like birragu, a hollow tree, bulbi, a leaning tree, bulu, the shadow of a tree, djurduralang, the tree bark for making fishing lines. Musicians from diverse cultures and traditions were invited to contribute to a composition, a deep, sonorous drone that throbs and rumbles through the Dyerren Dyerren Dragon Tree – from horsehead fiddle, to bass gaida, horn, and tanpura. Voices and instruments emanate from speaker-houses made from the twigs of the tree, and from sound-speakers emerging from beneath its root.
1. Wadi (wood)
Matthew Doyle: voice
2. Djirang (leaves of a tree) 1:46
Mary Rapp double bass, Boyd contrabass clarinet,
Robert Maxwell-Jones bass flute, Bob McIver trombone
3. Bugi (bark) 6:34
Matthew Doyle didgeridoo, Mary Rapp double basses, Bukhu Ganburged khoomei (throat singing) morin khuur (horsehead fiddle)
4. Djuraduralang (bark used to make fishing lines) 3:43
Richard Petkovic harmonium, Mary Rapp cello, Bankstown World Music Choir: Linda Marr (conductor), John Evans, Karen Hamblen, Margaret O’Connor, Ros Borghi, Sandra Perrin, Xin Chen, Perpetua Ekechukwu, Sundus Altai, additional voices Richard, Myka and Ria Petkovic and Diane Townley
5. Gumir (hole in a tree) 1:21
Linsey Pollak playing Kim Sanders’ aardvark (bass gaida bagpipe), Robert Maxwell-Jones bass flutes
6. Birragu (hollow tree) 3:05
Mary Rapp cellos, Bankstown World Music Choir:
Linda Marr (musical director), John Evans, Karen Hamblen, Margaret O’Connor, Ros Borghi, Sandra Perrin, Xin Chen, Perpetua Ekechukwu, Sundus Altai, additional voice, Diane Townley
7. Bulbi (leaning tree) 1:45
Bukhu Ganburged khoomei (throat singing)
morin khuur (horsehead fiddle)
8. Guwibul (dead tree) 3:00
Riff Raff Radical Marching Band brass drums saxophones clarinets,
Stephen Morley horn, Boyd contrabass clarinet
9. Dhuraga (splinter) 2:04
Bankstown World Music Choir voices (on zoom),
Stephen Morley tanpura, Richard Petkovic harmonium
10. Bulu (shadow of a tree) 1:55
Stephen Morley horn, Boyd contrabass clarinet, Matthew Doyle voice
¹Threatened species and Endangered ecosystems of the Canterbury/Bankstown region Latin and colloquial
spoken by the Bankstown World Music Choir
1. Acacia pubescens Hairy-stemmed wattle
2. Caesia parviflora Pale Grass Lily
3. Callistemon linearifolius Netted Bottle Brush
4. Deyeuxia appressa sedge
5. Persoonia nutans Nodding Geebung
6. Pimelea spicata Spiked Rice-flower
7. Pterostylis saxicola Sydney Plains Greenhood
8. Pultenaea pedunculata Matted Bush-Pea
9. Wilsonia backhousei Narrow-leaved Wilsonia
10. Tylophora woollsii Cryptic Forest Twiner
11. Marsdenia viridiflora Native Pear
12. Australasian Bittern
13. Black Bittern
14. Black-chinned Honeyeater
15. Bush Stone-Curlew
16. Flesh-footed Shearwater
17. Freckled Duck
18. Glossy Black Cockatoo
19. Olive Whistler
20. Osprey
21. Pink Robin
22. Powerful Owl
23. Regent Honeyeater
24. Speckled Warbler
25. Square-tailed Kite
26. Swift Parrot
27. Turquoise parrot
28. Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea
29. Common Bent-wing Bat Miniopterus schreibersii
30. Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus
31. Cumberland Plain Large Land Snail Meridolum corneovirens
32. Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
33. Shale/Gravel Transition Forest
34. Cooks River/Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
35. Shale/Sandstone Transition Forest
36. River Flat Eucalypt Forest
37. Coastal Saltmarsh
²Dharug and Dharawal names
spoken by Matthew Doyle
1. Dyerren dyerren (Dharawal) Port Jackson Pine Callitris rhomboidea
2. Banga’ly Swamp Mahogany Eucalyptus robusta (CB)
3. Burringora Forest Red Gum Eucalyptus tereticornis (CP) (CB)
4. Cobajora Stringybark Eucalyptus eugenioides (CP) (CB)
5. Mogargro White Ironbark Eucalyptus beyeri (CB)
6. Mun’ning Red Bloodwood Eucalyptus gummifera (CB)
7. Mundowey Grey Gum Eucalyptus punctata (CP) (CB)
8. Tarrin’ny Scribbly Gum Eucalyptus haemastoma (CB)
9. Torrangora Grey Iron Bark Eucalyptus paniculata (CB)
10. Tarunde’a Blackbutt Eucalyptus pilularis (CB)
11. Torumba Red Mahogany Eucalyptus resinifera (CB)
12. Werraboyne Peppermint Gum Eucalyptus piperita (CB)
13. Mugagaru Narrowleaf ironbark Eucalyptus crebra (CP) (CB)
14. Wadi wood
15. Guwibul dead tree
16. Bulu shadow of a tree
17. Gumir hole in a tree
18. Birragu hollow tree
19. Bulbi leaning tree
20. Djirang leaves of a tree
21. Bugi bark
22. Djuraduralang bark used to make fishing lines
23. Dhuraga splinter
24. Duga brush or forest—thick wood about a watercourse
25. Djaramada scrub
26. Bidjawong Eastern Water Dragon
27. Ngarang Bearded Dragon
28. Mugadun Bluetongue, Sleepy Lizard
29. Wirriga Goanna
30. Bayagin Leaf-tailed Gecko
31. Marragawan Brown Snake
32. Daning Death Adder
33. Wirragadara Bandy Bandy
34.Djirrabidi Red-bellied Black Snake
(CB) occurring in Canterbury Bankstown (CP) Cumberland Plains region ref THE SYDNEY LANGUAGE by Jakelin Troy Produced with the assistance of the Australian Dictionaries Project and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Canberra 1993. Traditional Aboriginal Names Baulkham Hills Shire.pdf. https://www.thehills.nsw.gov.au/Library/Library-e-Resources/Local-Studies-Family-History/A-Brief-History-of-the-Shire#Aboriginal. Murni Dhungang Jirrar Living in the Illawarra Compiled and written by Sue Wesson.