south australia
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I’d rather be lonely
As a child I had a fascination with remote places. In the house I grew up in, I regularly poured over Time Life cyclopedias as well as a huge detailed map of the world. I’d spend hours familiarising myself with the names of countries, their capital cities, shared borders and the colour schemes and insignia…
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Communiqué 13: Casting out
Communiqué is a series of long-than-usual blog entries which have been posted at semi-regular intervals since mid-2019. The impetus for this was my desire to get away from posting brief updates to the blog and instead consolidate these into a newsletter of sorts, which provides a summations of my activities, observations and musings on aspects…
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Mote Music
I’m very happy to be releasing a new album, Mote Music on December 4th 2020. The album, is in many respects a consolidation of two years worth of activities, experiments, ruminations and encounters with sound and the wider environment. A pre-release track, “Apophenia” is currently streaming at Soundcloud and at Bandcamp, where the album is…
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WAVES (for Kangaroo Island)
WAVES is a compilation of new and unreleased works from South Australian-based experimental musicians. The compilation was assembled in response to the recent Kangaroo Island bushfires. 100% OF ALL REVENUE FROM THE SALE OF THIS PAY-AS-YOU-WISH COMPILATION WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE KANGAROO ISLAND MAYORAL RELIEF AND RECOVERY BUSHFIRE FUND. (direct link provided below.) To…
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Sound map update: announcing the FKISM
The Fleurieu Sound Map – which I have facilitated since 2011 – is to be expanded into the Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island Sound Map. The recent Communiqué post covered the impact of the 2019-20 Australian bushfires which have, and continue to decimate communities and ecosystems across the country. The magnitude and extent of their destruction…
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Equilibrium Journal: making connections
Far from home Out of the general miserableness of my first year of university, an oft forgotten memory – which has curiously recalled itself recently – was my sensitivity to sound and the anxiety that accompanied it. For the first few months of my university life I would lie for hours in the dark with…
artist residency, collaboration, fellow sound recordists, long reads, musings, natural phenomena, natural sound, natural world (analogies), other peoples performances/gigs, presentations, regional – south australia, research, writingAlysha Herrmann, art deco, berri, brutalism, burra, country arts SA, critical care, digression, equilibrium, flinders ranges, foley art, health care, IMHIU, intervention, Jesse Budel, John Simpson, landscape, long reads, mental heath, noise, quiet, quorn, remote, riverland, sensitivity, silence, sound, sound art, sound design, south australia, space, Vic McEwan, whyalla -
Fleurieu Sound Map update
I’ve recently updated the Fleurieu Sound Map, giving it a bit of a makeover and more importantly, making it mobile friendly! There haven’t been any new additions since mid-last year, but I’m planning to add some more archival recordings soon as well as getting back down there to make some new recordings.
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Oblique Territories Journal – Part 4: leaving the hills
This is the fourth instalment of a series of posts covering my preparation (and eventual work) for a residency at Sauerbier House in Port Noarlunga commencing in October 2018. As part of my preparation and research I am following the course of the Onkaparinga/Ngangkiparri river from its source to the sea. Bad weather/good weather/injuries Given…
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Oblique Territories Journal – Part 3: semblance of a river
This is the third instalment of a series of posts covering my preparation (and eventual work) for a residency at Sauerbier House in Port Noarlunga commencing in October 2018. As part of my preparation and research I am following the course of the Onkaparinga/Ngangkiparri river from its source to the sea. Spring is here, Winter…