Deep listening to the places we cherish can ground us, tethering us to the ecosystems we’re part of, laying down memories for a future that’s hard to imagine. Might these soundscapes help shape that future? Is it even possible to sonically rewild landscapes? Emotional connections ...breaking down the sounds in my head, and mouthing them …
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 …
Wambuul Macquarie River, Dubbo NSW Australia On a walk around my local river over the weekend, I was listening to podcasts* I rarely have time for, enthralled by not only the Scottish accents and fluent speakers of Scottish Gàidhlig—a language I’ve been learning for several months, but ideas of connection to land, language shaped by …
Over a long weekend in October, I returned to the Mid North Coast and the Manning Valley for another round of field recordings and story gathering for my Regional Futures project, Vaticinor. Works are now in development for this project, in preparation for a small group exhibition at the Manning Regional Arts Gallery in March …
Apologies for the lack of regular correspondence in this blog. The last two years have been spent establishing the ecoPULSE.art platform for my project work. Artist and blog author, Kim V. Goldsmith My body sways to the four-beat measure of my horse’s walk—slightly slumped in the saddle, hands resting lightly on his whither, necks soft …
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