Behind the microphone at ABC Western Plains. August 2025. Just when you think you’ve found your groove, and life has a sense of rhythm, along comes a speed bump causing life to wobble until you shift gears. This happened at the beginning of August when I decided to find out if I wanted to work …
Listening is a whole of body experience. A couple of years ago I sat on a panel at the Artists in Volatile Landscapes Regional Futures symposium at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney to talk about how we might listen better. To underline the urgent need to listen better, I was particularly keen to get …
A microscope view (200x magnification) of a worm in the soils on the farm, ‘Willydah’. Image: Kim V. Goldsmith ...soils not only speak to us, but can be great subjects for art and music...soils truly are sexy. - Dr David Eldridge I’ve been puposely listening to the sound of soils for the past three years. …
A microscope image (1200x magnification) of burn marks on a Western Rosewood (Alectryon oleifolius) tree leaf near the Maynard’s house. March 2025. On the first Saturday in March, I went for a drive across the farm at Narromine where I’ve been working with farmer and agroecologist, Bruce Maynard, on my SOIL+AiR Creative Future Landscapes project. Bruce …
As my creative year begins to very slowly wind up with what will surely be enough tension to carry it into next year, I’ve been left thinking about where the call to action is in the work I do, be it recording and composing soundscapes, walking, writing, visual documentation or community engagement. Every day, we're …
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