NW dusk light just now at sunset... love the long evenings - sunset is getting later every day! #nz

try to do something nice for someone and for the next 30 years, you're known as "fart walker" among all your friends

interesting #nz job opportunity: NZSO seeking Principal Audio Engineer for new recording venue in the refurbished Wellington Town Hall, NZSO Studios.... thebigidea.nz/jobs/princip... Trick question at job interview: what is the signal to noise ratio of John Cages 4'33"?

My fave style of piano music: Dremel! Now please loan me your concert grand for a weekend...

Such a wacky perspective - its not often I can frame a hand glider & two cargo ships in the same shot! from Godley Head with Canon 5D3 and EF100-400L lens

Crazy pattern on gravy stock

The road into Erewhon Station #nz #uav #aerialphotography

How much?

Last part of my #nz road trip: Haast > Ross > Murchison > Tapawera > Blenheim > Robin Hood Bay & then ferry home.. www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/south-i...

Isolated Drum & Bass tracks for jazz lovers and musicians thank you Léa Proicheva @leaproicheva www.youtube.com/@leaproichev...

Damn! Costas first feature film was also my first feature film as sound designer back in 1997 & he was so great to work with... RIP! #nz www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"On my way (to commit crimes!)" A kea near Homer Tunnel at Te Anau #nz

weird things at auction: an offcut of Air NZ carpet!? At CentralMarkets auction in Lower Hutt on Thursday this week #nz

Got home last night from excellent two week road trip around the South Island of Aotearoa - route marked in red, travelled 2,500km/1,500 miles in 2 weeks through some of the most iconic landscapes NZ has to offer - doing lots of #fieldrecording and shooting film! love #nz

Stream the new album by Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet At The Wire website, Translation Loss Records and Pro Sound Effects share an exclusive early stream of David Lynch collaborators Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet’s I Thought I Heard A Stranger www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

new microphone fluffy has attitude!

Record store, too

cute new model of lawnmower

So great to meet Blair today, the 'Lost Gypsy' of Catlins thelostgypsy.com If you have no idea WTF I am referring to, watch this vid & then add him to your 'must visit' bucket list vimeo.com/74599830 So inspiring to meet a national treasure #nz #kinetic #sounddesign

ensemble recording, Mt Somers #nz

sheep with a view #nz

favourite new recording location... WWII acoustics!

Neutrinos are the second mot common subatomic particles in the Universe, after photons. You live in a photon-and-neutrino universe. Hold up your thumb. 100 billion neutrinos are passing through your thumbnail every second. 8 1/2 minutes ago they were in the centre of the Sun.

Next Thursday I'll be helping Teenage Engineering out with the whirlwide launch of their Riddim N' Ting music/fun creation Supertone unit at Music Works on Dominion Road 6-8PM. It's a free entry flingdown with tons of TE trickery but please hit the link below for tickets as thats how they do 1/2

The wind in #wellington is forecast to be even stronger tonight... so I am preparing v2 of the aoelian pipes! 8 pipes this time, with 8 mics, gaffer taped to my boom just waiting for the rain to stop

new HISSandaROAR library released last week: SD081 CAMERA ROBOTS - three motion control bots, captured 24/192k with audio + EMF www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Om... #sounddesign #gameaudio

true? I only have birds for close neighbours & at times I have the opposite issue - will catch myself playing vibraphone in tune with the Tuis

Visited a friend yesterday who has repaired the shutter & lens on my 1898 Instagraph camera... He showed me his camera collection and... lets say I feel better about my bunch of cameras & synths, outboard etc..

fragile masculinity - Wairarapa #nz

Six random length pipes + Six LOM Usi Pro = Gale Force Wind Pipes!?

Gale Force NW winds shaking the house rn! recording 32/192k to 8 tracks: 5.0 in lounge plus LOM Geophone to roof and an 8020 in upstairs fireplace and an 8020 in downstairs fireplace It is quite strange listening to the chimney mics!! #wellington #fieldrecording

Wild skies! The calm before the storm #wellington #nz Canon 5D3 x Zeiss 21ZE lens

Only thing to do when the wind is so strong: record it! WINDY AF - gale Nor West winds pounding the house

Excellent visit on Saturday to the National Archive for their 60th Birthday Celebration! An R P Moore negative x Kodal Cirkut camera 1/n

If you wanna come say hello and see what we do at the National Library of New Zealand - feel free to come along to this: natlib.govt.nz/events/natio... I'll be there with some cool cartoons and comics

One of the weirdest trends right now. I guess people think louder is better... ? It sounds like ass!

Interesting to compare an FFT of same device - audio then EMF...

THE DREAM.

"this is fine...."

Happy 90th birthday Dame Julie Andrews!

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Surreal clouds over Mana Island #wellington #nz #aotearoa

Mana Island, looking like a Colin McCahon painting just now.. Kapiti, Aotearoa #wellington #nz

wow!! absolutely incredible macro video from the winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition! www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Perfectly timed release for a Friday in Aoteatoa! Paul St. Hilaire - w/ The Producers #tikiman kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paul-s...

Released a new gore #soundfx library last week - last few days for discount! #sounddesign #gameaudio HISSandaROAR SD080 SQUELCH GORE www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Lz... hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibr...

wish I could get to this exhibition in Auckland: Philip Clairmont - Windows gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/... #nz (saw one of his paintings at Park Road Post & started scheming if it was feasible to steal it... hiviz + a trolley = ?)

not sure what time signature this doggo works at??

Luxon is a believer #nzpol #therapture

I feel bad for the generation of people handing over their ability to act creatively to AI… i don’t think they realize that creativity is a muscle, and when you don’t use it-