Maatakitj creates songs in nyoongar - one of Australia’s many endangered indigenous languages.

His name means ‘legs like spears’.

Based in Nyoongar Country, western Australia, he has performed at Festivals all over Australia and Internationally, including for world Expo Osaka in 2025.

Maatakitj (AKA Clint Bracknell) is Professor of Music at the University of Western Australia, where he continues to compose for theatre and arts productions, supports the Mayakeniny Nyoongar resource site, and collaborates on projects like the podcast series Song With No Boss for ABC Radio National. He is co-director of creative production house Boomerang and Spear with the award-winning Nyoongar artist Kylie Bracknell. Together, they led the audacious and ground-breaking 2021 Nyoongar language dub of the 1972 Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury and the lauded 2020 Nyoongar language adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hecate. Both Nyoongar translation productions were firsts for Indigenous languages of Australia.