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At the presentation of Deeper Sounds Deeper Connections at the NSW Parliament House.

DEEPER SOUNDS, DEEPER

CONNECTIONS

By Rowena Singh use for their musical growth, enhancement and bonding with
like-minded people.
Deeper Sounds, Deeper Connections is a Pacific-Australian He worked with other Fijians: Christopher Mallam, Apakuki
project which shares the unique music of the Pacific with the Nalawa, Zen Waqavonovono plus Australia’s DJ SLUMBERJACK
world. Working with groups of musicians across the region, it to create enriching projects throughout the Pacific. To be
captures traditional instruments, melodies, songs and voices, present at the launch at Parliament House in Sydney was
and distils them into sample packs for DJs, producers, film humbling, Kalounisiga says.
makers, music makers and Australian music schools. The Deeper Sounds, Deeper Connections project was born
Fiji’s Inoke ‘Knox’ Kalounisiga was one of the first Pacific during COVID and supported by the ICDP (International Centre
artists on the Deeper Sounds, Deeper Connections project. for Democratic Partnerships). Fiji was the pilot, and the mu-
Kalounisiga says that it’s a great feeling accomplishing sicians were brought together by Kenneth Katafono.
something meaningful, something that will be used for edu- “We collaborated with him [SLUMBERJACK] in creating
cational purposes, and something that others will be able to short snippets of tribal tracks that we composed, that he

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