EXHIBITION

Songs of Sowing & Reaping

Wungunja Culture Centre, Trangie (10 October 2026 – 14 February 2027)
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo (17 October 2026 – 14 February 2027)

Songs of Sowing & Reaping is the culmination of two years of on-site fieldwork on an innovative family farm in the Narromine Shire, and with those who keep and nurture traditional culture in the Trangie community.  Dubbo-based, multi-disciplinary artist, Kim V. Goldsmith slips beneath the vibrating surfaces of the region’s familiar landscapes, searching for the sonic pulse of life within – as it is now and for our future kin.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Hero image of Songs of Sowing and Reaping is a still from a LiDAR scan of a Kurrajong tree, overlayed with a circular multi-strand audio waveform in pale yellow.

SOUNDSCAPES

Willydah, 2026, experimental soundscape composition of field recordings and electronic sounds from the farm, ‘Willydah’ from Winter 2024 to Summer 2025.
Duration: xx minutes

As the seasons change, so too do the sounds of the farm and the landscape it sits within. Over the decades, the soundscape of this place has changed — some sounds have disappeared altogether, the song of woodland birds and insects over the summer.

Anywhere on Earth, 2025, experimental soundscape composition and wall-mounted timber vessels, with headphones. Duration: 5 minutes

The soil beneath our feet is the most biodiverse habitat on the planet. As humans, we assume this world is silent. Minuscule and microscopic species shuffle, scuttle, scamper, wriggle, and burrow between particles and pores, shifting and reshaping with the seasons and time—time we cannot fathom. Anywhere on Earth is a 20-track mix of field recordings of wind, rain, invertebrates, electromagnetic fields, the melody of wind on fencing wire, photosynthesising plants, dewy sundews, birdsong, my slowed heartbeat, and drone chords.

Wungunja, 2026, experimental soundscape composition of field recordings from Goan Waterhole and the Wugunja Dancers (Trangie).
Duration: xx minutes

VIDEOS

Tree 360, 2026, LiDAR videos of paddock tree on the farm, ‘Willydah’. No sound. Duration:

Spending time with these giants on the plains is a privilege. Sharing their shade, listening to the breeze rustle their leaves, seeing the tears of sap leak from fissures in their bark. They have stood like sentinels over a century’s worth of change. The health of these trees today tells the story of that change.

Subterranean serenade, 2024, soundscape composition and animated video.
Duration: 4 minutes

Tension exists between the soil’s surface and air, between the listener and the listened to — it pulses, like a heartbeat, bringing rhythm to the hum of life beneath our feet. The detailed warp and weft of fabrics buried below ground develop landscape-like lines, contours and chasms. These textiles are like the soils of the plains that have been eroded, depleted, worn and torn over time, leaving pores, peds and grains. All the while, ants work industriously across the surface and beneath folds and layers, waiting for the rain to fall.

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Tiny Worlds: The (de)Composers, 2026, macro video with soundtrack of field recordings and electronic sounds, tablet, printed fabric and wooden box.
Duration: 2 minutes

VISUAL WORKS

Future Kin (portrait series), 2025/26, photographic portraits by Sally Pittman with audio stories (QR codes)

  1. The Maynard family x 2 (including Roz) – WPCC
  2. Aunty Ruth Carney, Ashton xxx – WPCC/ WCC
  3. Minnie James and Rowan James – WPCC/ WCC
  4. Pat Skinner and Jess Skinner – WPCC/ WCC
  5. Uncle Tony Lees, Uncle Rusty xx, and Uncle Trevor Lees – WPCC/ WCC
  6. xxx
  7. Wunjunja Dancers – W
  8. SPACE Walkers

🔊 AUDIO STORIES

Sowing Circles, 2026, audio waveform detail from recordings of soil, machine sown by hand onto fabrics buried in soil for 8 weeks on the farm, ‘Willydah’, mounted in embroidery hoops.