Five weeks of long service leave - go, go, go. Cue this MF.

As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations, I’m proud to share an amazing journey in sound with you all today, in this collection of some of the most extraordinary field recordings from across the entire Cities and Memory project. citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/the-fi...

Last Saturday…wait, what? An electric guitar? A neckerchief? In a band?

Good times.

Elevated.

Repairing a jacket cuff.

Life, itself.

Baby brocolli from the garden.

[bravely] i wrote about cds

New data science blog post! Link in bio. Almost exactly two years ago I deployed a pair of AudioMoths on a property in Yankalilla. What better material for a Python scikit-maad use case? I render some circadian soundscapes with a handy little workflow. #python #scikit #acousticecology #audiomoth

A little of this; a little of that.

There's a new post coming soon to my data science/acoustic ecology blog, Wrangling In The Antipodes. Documentation of a preliminary dive into the possibilities of the excellent Python package, scikit-madd. #acousticecology #python #obsidian #audiomoth

Friday night normcore having a responsibile stout, making a curry and listening to the new Stereolab album. All of these things are good, but the latter is really, really good.

If you are interested in connecting other signal sources to AudioMoth, such as piezoelectric hydrophones and contact microphones, or geophones, check out our new application note - github.com/OpenAcoustic...

Further brassica action.

Progression.

Brassicas persevering.

Going deep in the drought ravaged plains of Langhorne Creek today with ecologist, Remko in search of ancient stygofauna. It’s ’Winter’ next month; that’s how dry it is out here.

First spinach of the year from the veggie garden!

Hello old friend. I’ve had this DVD for 20 years. Tom Waits: sure; but JOHN LURIE: yessssssssssss.

March 2025 blog post. 🌞🍂🌊

Marvellous arvo/evening out at The Grace Emily for legendary Adelaide band, Swimsuit’s long-awaited album launch. Joined by Elizabeth Prophet and dear friend, Sweeney. 🔥

Waited a few months for this album to drop. Pardon my turn of phrase, but this is just so fucking brilliant. The production on Eiko’s albums is typically outstanding, but this one is mind-meltingly good. ⚡️🫠⚡️ eikoishibashi.bandcamp.com/album/antigone

I’m seeing a lot of people blame the Monash University Museum of Art for the decision to postpone an exhibition featuring Khaled Sabsabi. The Museum didn’t make this decision and the staff are devastated. The Museum was ordered to pull the show by Monash Vice-Chancellor Sharon Pickering.

Congratulations, Creative Australia. Your panicked, craven behaviour has legitimised the cowardice of others - in this case @monashuniversity.bsky.social - & destroyed an eminent artist's career. Your credibility is currently non-existent & will remain so until your leadership is held accountable.

Stanley's 2018 book was instrumental in developing my understanding of fascist ideology, as opposed to clumsy generalisation of saying 'this' or 'that' is fascist. The distinctions are critical. I highly recommend the book as a primer for how we've tilted since then into a much darker timeline.

Incredible album. Not intended as an offhand comparison, but I'm struck my how much this band sounds like a version of Broadcast if they had embraced shoegaze music in the late 90s. For anyone inclined, I highly recommend spinning "for anyone and you". mo-dotti.bandcamp.com/album/opaque

Favourite corner away from home.

Excellent explainer of the catastrophic algae bloom event on the Fleurieu coastline this past week. www.indailysa.com.au/news/in-dept...

Flow is the most beautiful movie I’ve seen since Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car. No dialogue. Astonishing animation..made in Blender on a small budget. Can’t imagine how inspiring its success will be for independent artists and those starting out. The final scenes made me cry hard. Btw, I’m a cat person.

Next comic/animation project. 🦇

Absolutely wild cloud formations slow drifting over Adelaide/Tarntanya in the early morning. A smidge of petrichor too.

Another week, another snapped up 2nd hand deluxe edition of a John Martyn record. Smooth as the surface of a coffee liqueur. Killer album. Say what you will about Phil Collins, the magnificent bastard can sure play a drum kit.

What a thrill! Last year I built a noisebox for my friend, the composer Luke Altmann. He's used this noisebox exclusively for his score for this upcoming documentary. Looks/sounds amazing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJU...

I made an animation of one of my web comics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcy...

Absolutely stoked to find a $10 second hand edition of this 2004 Deluxe Edition. I have been searching for this for a long, long time.

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵

Disquiet Junto assignment 0688: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction. My response: sort-of plastic soul. soundcloud.com/red_robin/di...

Monthly blog post for February is up. A sole descent into the world of stygofauna. substack.com/home/post/p-...

new vaporware dropped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jjT...

🚨This🚨

This evening’s listening comprises of the ridiculous and utterly brilliant 9CD deluxe edition of Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born.

The people of Greece are undetaking mass protests and a general strike today; this article is worth reading if you are interested in the devastating background to this www.macropolis.gr?i=portal.en....

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.