Old shearing sheds and shearers' quarters, memories of the good old days, bush yarns and dust. That's how I spent my day yesterday doing video interviews for a client.

#RuralAustralia #RegionalNSW #ContentProducer #Storytelling

A couple of olive-loving Australian ringneck parrots who have been methodically stripping one of my olive trees of its fruit over the past few days. Pass the crackers!

#BirdsofOz #birdsofmastodon #Parrots #RegionalNSW

It’s been a huge few weeks covering about 2000 km in the process. Since late March I’ve installed and opened new work on the back of a year of creative concept development, guided a soundwalk through a rainforest, performed my sound compositions in front of a paying, seated audience and prepared a few works for exhibition and award opportunities. Not a lot of down time but the upside has been meeting some great people.

https://mrag.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/REGIONAL-FUTURES-Box-of-Possibilities

#SoundArt #SoundArtist #ArtExhibition #SoundWalk #LivePerformance #RegionalNSW

12 months' work exploring issues in front of Regional NSW in the transition to a post-carbon future will be on show and up for discussion at the Manning Regional Art Gallery in Taree, opening 23 March. The official opening is Sat 25 March, plus I'm guiding a soundwalk the evening before.

Details https://kvgoldsmithart.com/current-work/vaticinor/

#DigitalMediaArtist #SoundArtist #Storyteller #RegionalNSW #EcoArt #ArtExhibition

I got a bit distracted by a pair of bathing red-browed finches today. We haven't seen these guys here before. They've been hanging out with the double-barred finches at the herb garden bird bath, but I managed to get some shots of them on their own today.

#BirdsOfOz #BirdWatching #DubboNSW #RedBrowedFinch #RegionalNSW

Recording is now underway for the 🦇 project I'm getting started on, monitoring insect-eating bats. I've been tasked with recording on an off-road bush track. Just as well I have a few of those! I have two AudioMoths on the job until Tuesday, as I've configured my recorder with the same settings as the one provided for this citizen science project, and to cover another section of the track. I'll make the 'who's behind the project' info more public once I know more about how the creative part of this project is going to take shape

And I'm looking for 🦇 stories - more so from people who really don't like them for whatever reason. I'd love to hear why. Message me!

#bats #chiroptera #microbats #BatEcology #EcoArt #EnvironmentalArt #SocialEcology #bioacoustics #AcousticEcology #BatEnvironments #RegionalNSW #RegionalArts #ArtProject #ecopulse #SoundArtist #SoundArt #FieldRecording

Evening walk around the front paddock. A warm 35°C today and the breeze was warm tonight. The grass was crunchy underfoot and cracks are starting to appear in the dry soil.

#DubboNSW #RegionalNSW #AussieSummer

@t4ms Some of my family come from there (I don’t think there’s any of that branch left now, the last cousin probably died last year.)

Temora also has an awesome Aviation museum, the volunteers which help run it are amazing. They have flying Spitfires, which, regardless of how you feel about warplanes, are incredible engineering.

https://aviationmuseum.com.au/

#Temora #VintageAviation #Spitfires #AviationMuseum #Museum #NSW #RegionalNSW

Centaurium tenuiflorum - slender or branched centaury of the Gentianaceae family is an introduced/ naturalised bi/annual herb of European origins, said to have medicinal properties. It’s widespread in settled areas of eastern Australia but uncommon. I have a handful of plants growing on hard, bare ground beside my house - barely visible splotches of pink fluttering in a summer wind. It’s considered an environmental weed in some jurisdictions. All these statements are judgements loaded with values and assumptions. We use them freely, but they mean different things to different people depending on your position and privilege. Things I’m thinking about as I mull over the complexities within my NSW Regional Futures project exhibition work. Incapacitated with severe sciatica, I can’t do much but think at the moment, and my brain is foggy with pain and painkillers.

#storyteller #RegionalNSW #EcoArt #EnvironmentalArt

Yesterday was spent west of Dubbo gathering audio stories from champions of agriculture - renewables in agriculture and regenerative agriculture. These will be Regional Futures project stories, of which I now have 18, due to be released in March at the Manning Regional Art Gallery. These stories express the hopes, fears, challenges and actions individuals in our regional communities are talking to ensure a future in a post-carbon world.

#RegionalNSW #StoryTelling #ClimateChange #RegionalFutures

A stunning morning spent by the brown waters of the Wambuul Macquarie River yesterday recording stories about the future of the regions from some of the newer residents of Dubbo. Different perspectives from the 13 other stories recorded so far, which has made this aspect of my Regional Futures project so interesting and important. One of my takeaways from this morning’s three conversations is climate change is really only being discussed by the privileged despite the greatest impacts being on those simply trying to put a roof over their head and food on the table. That doesn’t seem like an equitable future. Re-listening to them today as I edit. Powerful stories.

#AudioStories #StoryMapping #FieldRecording #SoundArtist #StoryTeller #RegionalNSW

This weekend was our first taste of summer and this week’s wind has dried things out. The eucalypts have been dropping leaves and shedding bark. A rumble of thunder, then a quick, blustery downpour to drop the temperature a few degrees.
#RegionalNSW #Dubbo #summer