An audiovisual data-story that documents the arrival of an environmental water flow in Nap Nap Swamp, a wetland on Nari Nari country, in the Lowbidgee region of the Murrumbidgee River. It features eighteen hours of audio, recorded over nine days in mid-2020. Interactive false-colour spectrograms reveal the patterns and rhythms of life on Nap Nap, as the birds and frogs respond to the rising water.
Created for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Flow-MER program, which undertakes long-term monitoring of the ecological impact of environmental water allocations.
The Sound of Water was developed in collaboration with Dr Skye Wassens and her team at Charles Sturt University.
Skye and I wrote an article about the project for The Conversation, over here