SOUNDS LIKE NOISE

Skeletal gnarly tree at Lake Sorell in Tasmania. It’s reverberations provide an auditory backdrop to Smith’s “Without a Sound” exhibition of prints. It seems like a lifetime ago that Meli...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/10/29/without-a-sound-exhibition-of-melissa-smiths-prints-at-devonport-regional-gallery/

I’ve always been a sucker for a good drone. A long sustained note with slight harmonic variations held throughout a piece of music will catch my attention, force me to sit and move into its spa...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/07/17/what-was-is-will-be/

Despite the wintery conditions it was impossible to refuse an invitation to spend time at Lake Sorell in Tasmania’s mid-highlands with printmaker Melissa Smith. The aim was to collect audio rec...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/07/15/lake-sorell-tasmania/

The Beast It was another hot windy day out west. I could feel my skin turning to leather and my mind beginning to fry. Bottles of water didn’t provide much relief. Any aspirations I’d had of ...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/03/13/pulses-in-the-desert/

  Fence-line at Gundabooka The wind, the wind … the dry hot wind at Gundabooka. The roadkill scattered along the unsealed road was turning into leather before my eyes. Mangled and bloated corp...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/02/28/metal-wind-the-eternal/

Sunset along the Darling River, Yanda Camprground, Gundabooka It was close to a week that I had been camping alone and it would be fair to say my mind wasn’t doing very well. There in the idyll...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/02/07/sunset-at-gundabooka-losing-my-mind/

I have written before about the way in which the act of listening can disrupt the mental loops we find ourselves in. Listening draws us out of our thoughts and allows us a chance to reconnect wit...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2021/01/23/listening-to-the-menindee-lakes/

Wire fences dissect the land Broken Hill, a town known for its droughts and dust storms and dry red earth, flooded during my 2-week stay at the Broken Hill Art Exchange. The afternoon before, I�...

https://soundslikenoise.org/2020/10/12/before-the-deluge/

Silverton Cemetery https://soundslikenoise.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/bh-flies.mp3

https://soundslikenoise.org/2020/10/02/for-those-who-remain/

Sunrise, Gundabooka National Park

https://soundslikenoise.org/2020/09/30/for-all-things-lost/