140 Multiple uses for old and new recordings: perspectives from the multilingual community of Warruwi Isabel O’Keeffe Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney 1 Conservatorium Rd. Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA [isabel.okeeffe@sydney.edu.au] Linda Barwick Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney 1 Conservatorium Rd. Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA [linda.barwick@sydney.edu.au] Carolyn Coleman Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney 1 Conservatorium Rd. Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA [colemancarolync@gmail.com] David Manmurulu Warruwi Community South Goulburn Island, via Winellie, NT 0822, Australia [warruwimusicians@gmail.com] Jenny Manmurulu Warruwi School PMB 90, via Winellie, NT 0822, Australia [jenny.manmurulu@ntschools.net] Janet Gardjilart Bumarda Mardbinda Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney 1 Conservatorium Rd. Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Paul Naragoidj Juninga Centre 113 Dick Ward Drive, Coconut Grove, NT 0810, Australia Ruth Singer School of Languages & Linguistics, University of Melbourne Babel (Building 139), The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia [rsinger@unimelb.edu.au] Abstract This paper reports on collaborative research by a team of linguists, musicologists, elders, educators and young people from the multilingual Indigenous community of Warruwi (South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, Australia). A key aim of the various projects has been to make recordings available to the community and to equip and empower community members to be involved in the documentation and to control how old and new recordings are used. In this paper, we report on the repatriation of archival recordings of language and song at Warruwi and discuss how the Warruwi community uses these recordings—and more recent recordings by the research team—for maintenance or revitalisation purposes. Different perspectives will be provided by various members of the community. We demonstrate