This month’s post is made up of two social media posts shared in July—both about listening. The first was written in response to World Listening Day on 18 July, and the second, a post written by UK-based regenerative culture practitioner, environmental activist, and artist Bridget McKenzie on Medium on 21 July. What’s it mean to …
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. …
In August 2024, as I was preparing for my spring SOIL+AiR creative rural research residency sessions on farm, I wrote about listening to one of the paddock trees for a Meta* post. Going into the New Year, I thought it worth revisiting. I had the privilege of sitting close to a Kurrajong tree in a …
A red moon rising through the smoke haze of the droughted landscape of our farm near Collie NSW in the 2006-07 bushfire season, causing some of the worst bushfire smoke since records began, triggering an increase in the incidence of asthma. This smoke was from fires hundreds of kilometres away. Photo: Kim V. Goldsmith, November …
Are the places we live and work so uninhabitable, so disconnected from the natural world, that our only option is to reproduce sounds that keep us sane and healthy? Land once cleared for grazing is now home to a wind farm on Wiradjuri Country, Central West NSW (2022) As I’ve been working on my upcoming …
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