Listening to Martin King’s “Hoodwink, Four Quarters”
Hoodwink, Four Quarters by Martin King The hooded hawk in Martin King’s Hoodwink, Four Quarters provides a disembodied narrative loaded with evocative symbolism. In King’s print the hawk appears...
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NASA space suit test My archive of coil pick up recordings is at the core of a new project that I’m working on for the Hemisphäreの空虚 label. It is due to be released later this year. Here is a sneak...
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Recordings of electrical pulses from domestic appliances have been the source for my upcoming release on the Hemisphäreの空虚 label. I’m attracted to these tiny little sounds, unheard for most of us yet...
View ArticleRadio Piece – Each Morning of the World – Colony
Excerpt from Colony, my new field-recording based composition reflecting upon the colonial soundscape of Australia I was recently invited to contribute a piece for the phonographic series Each Morning...
View ArticleField Recordings: Tasmania
Lake Esperance Summer holidays. Head south to avoid the Australian summer. Escape the mosquitoes, snakes, and an all pervasive humidity that saps the body of energy and the mind of all intelligible...
View ArticlePulse: a new release on hemisphärenokukyo
A short sample from Pulse ix: I love the process of listening to the world through coil pickups. Without them our electrical appliances appear to sit silently throughout the home, lifeless. But what a...
View ArticleArt in the Pub: Mullumbimby, Monday 22nd July
Look at which distinguished guest has been invited to speak at this month’s Art in the Pub …
View ArticleA winter in Estonia: sound, memory, place.
Image from my audio-visual work Eesti (image courtesy of Kristen den Exter) In the winter of 2014 I undertook an artist residency in the small farming village of Mooste, Estonia. Images of interesting...
View ArticleLow Frequencies
Listening to this metal frame, I lost time Of all the sounds available to record, I am most attracted to those with low frequencies. Perhaps this is partly why electricity pylons pique my interest...
View ArticleSweet dreams, little fishies
Enjoying a break from the spring sunshine, I sat under this busy bridge and threw a pair of hydrophones into the water. This was my 2nd recording trip to the Gold Coast region for my new project. I had...
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The Final Sense
https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-final-sense.mp3 (piano Nina Simone: Theme from Samson and Delilah)
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Quietude and the power of listening
https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/creek-bugs-1.mp3 For several weeks I have considered walking down to my local creek in search of a moment’s respite from everything the year has...
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Antidote
https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/antidote.mp3 In the events that have taken hold around the world and in our personal lives it could be easy to be subsumed with feelings of...
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To the hills: field-recording in the Border Loop
Microphones packed, off to the hills … I wouldn’t be the first person to observe that the everyday things that stand directly in front of us are often overlooked. Even though it’s less than 50km away...
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Coil pickups and microsounds
Energy saving lights sound pretty active to me https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/light.mp3 Microsounds. Here the volume of their minuscule pulses and bleeps have been increased...
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For All Things Lost
Sunrise, Gundabooka National Park https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/gundabooka-morning.mp3
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For Those Who Remain
Silverton Cemetery https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/bh-flies.mp3
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Before the Deluge
Wire fences dissect the land https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/bh-fence1.mp3 Broken Hill, a town known for its droughts and dust storms and dry red earth, flooded during my 2-week...
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Listening to the Menindee Lakes
Menindee Lakes near Broken Hill https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/menindee-lakes.mp3 I have written before about the way in which the act of listening can disrupt the mental loops we...
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Sunset at Gundabooka (losing my mind)
Sunset along the Darling River, Yanda Camprground, Gundabooka https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/gundabooka-crickets.mp3 It had been close to a week that I had been camping alone and...
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