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Glyn Lehmann has composed a new commissioned work for the PSMF titled, ‘Living the Dream’. 

It is a mini musical based on the Ikaria wariootia who lived 550 million years ago when much of central Australia was covered by a shallow sea. Fossils of it have been found at Nilpena in our very own Ikaria-Flinders Ranges. Nilpena might end up on the World Heritage list in 2027 – how exciting!!

 ** The lead character is a little ‘worm-like’ animal, half the size of a rice grain and is possibly our oldest living relative in Australia…. it has a dream of the distant future in which it sees and hears the choir and troupe from the PSMF singing and moving ‘as one’…. No living thing on Earth has learnt to move and the creature knows that it must find a way, in order that this dream will come true… it must ‘get a wriggle on’ and not remain stuck in the muck….  The dream also reveals some of the amazing lifeforms that are yet to come and that lived in South Australia.  It’s an adventure!

 Australian Ediacaran - Ediacara Biota  check them out here! 😊

As with musicals like The Lion King, Matilda and Frozen, Glyn’s mini musical tells a story through its characters, the songs they sing and where they live. The two main characters in Living the Dream are the hero of the story, Ikaria wariootia, and the PSMF Choir! The location is our amazing home state of South Australia.

Each song has been composed in a different style - soundscape + Narrator, ballad, uptempo ‘Beatle-esque’, funky musical-style, anthem type, rap, and even whistling! … It will be so much fun!!

1. Ediacara Biota – introduces the dawn of animal life 550 million years ago and the hero of our story.
2. The Gathering – our hero has a dream and sees a gathering of creatures singing and moving together as one – the PSMF choir!
3. Dream State – the dream continues with other life forms revealed.  Our hero decides it must learn how to move in order to realise this dream. The choir tell it to ‘get a wriggle on’!
4. Get a Wriggle On – ‘don’t get stuck in the muck’ – Get a wriggle on!!
5. The Greatest Show on Earth - the dream which reveals some of the amazing life forms that are yet to come and that lived in what is now South Australia. The first arthropods, dinosaurs, megafauna, up to the present day, and whose fossils have been found on Kangaroo Island, in the Naracoorte Caves and many other South Australian locations.
6. One By Nature – our hero arrives at the Festival of Music to see and hear the choir and troupe from its dream, in the flesh.  The connection is made that we are all part of One Great Story.

Background

• Ikaria wariootia lived 550 million years ago during the Ediacaran period, when much of central Australia was covered by a shallow sea. Fossils of it were found at Nilpena in South Australia's Ikaria–Flinders Ranges.
• A worm-like animal, the size of a rice grain, likely to be humanity's oldest known ancestor.
• Mary Droser, a geologist from the University of California-Riverside, said the discovery shed new light on the earliest period of history. “It’s another piece in the puzzle of understanding how animal life evolved on Earth," she said.
• "It's your oldest relative in Australia, which is very cool — it's the ultimate Ancestory.com.”
• "We see things like bilateral symmetry, a gut that can consume food, process it and eject it as waste, and that's really the first step in the evolution of animal life on this planet."
• The name is taken from the Adnyamathanha word for "meeting place" (Ikara, also the name for nearby Wilpena Pound) in recognition of the local indigenous people and the nearby Warioota Creek.
• In 2027, if all goes well, Nilpena will be on the World Heritage list.

If you’re interested in learning more, try these link https://ediacarafoundation.org/

SA Museum  Ediacara Biota research | SA Museum