Woodlands & Wetlands Trust

Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary

Custom Soundscape for audio-visual installation at Canberra Airport

A nocturnal bushland soundscape of Australian birds & wildlife was commissioned to help promote Mulligan’s Flat, a wildlife sanctuary managed by the Woodlands & Wetlands Trust. The sounds were used in an interactive audio-visual installation at Canberra Airport.

The soundscape needed to include the calls of a number of key species which could be found in the reserve including owls, possums and the distinctive wailing call of the Bush Stone-Curlew. An engaging, natural-sounding composition was created which accurately reflected the sounds one could hear at night from within the sanctuary.

Mulligan’s Flat sanctuary provides a predator-free woodland habitat for a number of species of native fauna which were previously extinct in the local area. A reintroduction program has enabled a number of species to establish healthy populations within the reserve some of which are now dispersing naturally further afield.