A long-running blog. I'm a sound flâneur, composer, acoustic ecologist, seeker of resonance. Creator of Fleurieu & KI Sound Map
Towards a ‘country ramble’ Following on from last month’s instalment, I’m pleased to report that as I write this, the pace of life, projects, work and everything else has settled into something that feels genuinely manageable. Currently, that pace feels like a gentle country ramble with a packed sandwich and a thermos of strong tea. Projects […]
This is not (yet) my beautiful quietude As 2025 tumbled through the sky in a coil of blackened burnout, I’d resolved that 2026 would be a purposefully quieter year on the creative front. If there was going to be anything vaguely consistent and ongoing, it was going to be writing projects. It hasn’t quite turned […]
A bit late on this. Things are a bit busy in these parts at the moment. Here’s a round up of what I got up to during February and March. Disquiet Junto Over the course of March I found myself getting back into the swing of participating in Disquiet Junto assignments on a consistent basis. It’s been […]
Just a quick one to let you know that I’ll be rolling the February activity into the March update in a couple of weeks. There wasn’t necessary a shortage of things that I got up to, it’s just that everything might be a bit more substantial when combined. In short, some things I’ve recently been […]
Introduction (notes on 20 years of blogging) As I was writing up the surrounding items for this month’s post it occurred to me that I’ve been maintaining blogs for 20 years. As this thought occurred to me I was also aware that I’d set up a task for myself to write up an ‘about’ section […]
Following last month’s extensive write-up on a week of travels in Scotland during October, I’ve decided to rein things in and give the travel writing a pause for this month and stick to ‘business as usual’. Next month I’ll resume with a write-up covering my travels through England. There’s also a lot planned for 2026 […]
In October I embarked on a long overseas vacation with my partner Lauren. We visited parts of Scotland and England, a smidge of Belgium and wound down things in Germany. This trip was ‘long’ by my standards, since I hadn’t been overseas for more than a week in nearly ten years and it was my […]
When I’m a bit older and I reflect on 2025, I might enter the vault of this blog, locate the few slabs representing 2025, squint at the scrawls and various images representing my creative activities and think to myself, “Hmm..that was a bit of a strange year.” Writing from this current vantage, some two-thirds of […]
Following a necessary pause last month, Here’s a round up of what I got up to during April and May. Stygofauna, mysterious soundscapes & the extended dry Back in February 2025, I started collaborating with an evolutionary biologist, Remko Leijs, whose areas of knowledge extend to the newly discovered realm of stygofauna. You can read […]
Given that last month’s blog update was solely updated to the emerging stygofauna project, I wanted to feature, well…more than one thing this month. Stygofauna explorations stalled Following on from last month’s update, plans for further stygofauna work with Remko had to be put on hold, but we’re hoping to back on track in April […]