KV Goldsmith
@kvgoldsmith.bsky.social
🛠️ interdisciplinary artist 💚 sound 🎤 ecoacoustics 🐜 social ecology ✍🏻 storyteller🚶walking artist📍Wiradjuri Country, Australia
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Profile: ‘V’ drawn in sand. Header: Microscope view of a Christmas beetle.
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Profile: ‘V’ drawn in sand. Header: Microscope view of a Christmas beetle.
2 weeks out from summer & it feels like 6°C at 7.30am. I’ve been for a walk & had brekky outside watching an Eastern yellow robin, Double-barred finches and wrens at the bird bath. Roos are grazing in the paddock with Straw-necked ibis. Blue-cheeked honeyeaters are shrieking from the Silky oak 💚
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
2 weeks out from summer & it feels like 6°C at 7.30am. I’ve been for a walk & had brekky outside watching an Eastern yellow robin, Double-barred finches and wrens at the bird bath. Roos are grazing in the paddock with Straw-necked ibis. Blue-cheeked honeyeaters are shrieking from the Silky oak 💚
I’m thrilled to be a featured artist in the ecoartspace published book 'Soils Turn' & one of only two artists in a section on listening to soils. Marcus Maeder being the other. 'Soils Turn’ incl. 175+ artists from Europe, US, India, and Australia. It’s launching in New York in a couple of weeks.
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I’m thrilled to be a featured artist in the ecoartspace published book 'Soils Turn' & one of only two artists in a section on listening to soils. Marcus Maeder being the other. 'Soils Turn’ incl. 175+ artists from Europe, US, India, and Australia. It’s launching in New York in a couple of weeks.
The storms have passed.
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The storms have passed.
Just hanging about this weekend doing all the things I have no time or energy for through the week…reading, writing, laundry, walking, gardening and watching my garden ornaments graze amongst the native trees and shrubs beside the house 🦘🦘🦘
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just hanging about this weekend doing all the things I have no time or energy for through the week…reading, writing, laundry, walking, gardening and watching my garden ornaments graze amongst the native trees and shrubs beside the house 🦘🦘🦘
Pastel skies after a warm, grey, showery couple of days across the Western Plains of NSW.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Pastel skies after a warm, grey, showery couple of days across the Western Plains of NSW.
CALLOUT: arboreus.earth submissions. This is growing a global, virtual forest of sounds. Are trees near you on this map? If not, we’d love to see them included.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
October 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
CALLOUT: arboreus.earth submissions. This is growing a global, virtual forest of sounds. Are trees near you on this map? If not, we’d love to see them included.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
Details of how to submit are on the submit page of the site - arboreus.earth/submit/ Deadline for final 2025 upload is 21 November.
White-plumed Honeyeater eggs in a beautiful nest of woven grass and cobwebs, found in the back of my garden.
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
White-plumed Honeyeater eggs in a beautiful nest of woven grass and cobwebs, found in the back of my garden.
The view on my way to work in the mornings these days. A pre-dawn Dubbo City.
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The view on my way to work in the mornings these days. A pre-dawn Dubbo City.
My week in pictures. An early morning Sunday walk, a Saturday of conversation and listening on farm, and another week down of presenting the ABC brekky program across the Western Plains on NSW sharing ideas, laughs, information, and some great yarns.
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
My week in pictures. An early morning Sunday walk, a Saturday of conversation and listening on farm, and another week down of presenting the ABC brekky program across the Western Plains on NSW sharing ideas, laughs, information, and some great yarns.
I’ve just finished up my first week as the full-time breakfast presenter on ABC Western Plains. It’s where I started started my journalism career in earnest in 1992. Some call it full circle, others back to the future. It’s a new challenge. Radio has changed enormously in 30 years, but so have I.
September 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I’ve just finished up my first week as the full-time breakfast presenter on ABC Western Plains. It’s where I started started my journalism career in earnest in 1992. Some call it full circle, others back to the future. It’s a new challenge. Radio has changed enormously in 30 years, but so have I.
It’s the first day of spring tomorrow 🥶 The only thing we don’t get here is snow. Winter can piss off now.
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s the first day of spring tomorrow 🥶 The only thing we don’t get here is snow. Winter can piss off now.
The sounds of a virtual, global forest - 25 beautiful sonic tree and forest portraits from 8 countries, recorded by 14 field recordists. New listings now online. Take a break and plug into arboreus.earth 🎧 arboreus.earth/trees/
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The sounds of a virtual, global forest - 25 beautiful sonic tree and forest portraits from 8 countries, recorded by 14 field recordists. New listings now online. Take a break and plug into arboreus.earth 🎧 arboreus.earth/trees/
This is a bit rude for the end of winter. I don’t need this for my predawn work starts 🥶
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a bit rude for the end of winter. I don’t need this for my predawn work starts 🥶
Wallaby today? 🦘 This fella has a story to tell 😕
August 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wallaby today? 🦘 This fella has a story to tell 😕
After chasing radio stories all week, I’m switching gears this weekend with looming creative deadlines for an exhibition opening late October. Puzzling over how to supply a high res image for a sound work. I might have to use one of my macro photos of soil given that’s what the work is about.
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
After chasing radio stories all week, I’m switching gears this weekend with looming creative deadlines for an exhibition opening late October. Puzzling over how to supply a high res image for a sound work. I might have to use one of my macro photos of soil given that’s what the work is about.
Over 3 decades, I’ve navigated my way through new processes, software & comms formats as needed with a little bit of on-the-go learning along the way. After a week in a new job, using an unfamiliar PC, software & apps I’d never seen or heard of before this week, my brain feels ready to explode 🤯
August 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Over 3 decades, I’ve navigated my way through new processes, software & comms formats as needed with a little bit of on-the-go learning along the way. After a week in a new job, using an unfamiliar PC, software & apps I’d never seen or heard of before this week, my brain feels ready to explode 🤯
BOOK LAUNCHING IN OCTOBER // "Soils Turn" highlights the work of approximately 30 distinguished soil artists from across the world, and includes soil essays, and a directory of 140 soil artists. I’m thrilled to say my work of the past few years listening to Australian rural soils will be included.
August 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
BOOK LAUNCHING IN OCTOBER // "Soils Turn" highlights the work of approximately 30 distinguished soil artists from across the world, and includes soil essays, and a directory of 140 soil artists. I’m thrilled to say my work of the past few years listening to Australian rural soils will be included.
That’s a wrap! It’s been a fabulous week wandering & listening to the forests and waterways of South Coast NSW. With 160+GB of recordings in the bag, it’s time to head home and start creating. Big thanks to the the Botanic Gardens staff, the team at the Bas & Eurobodalla locals for your assistance 💚
July 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
That’s a wrap! It’s been a fabulous week wandering & listening to the forests and waterways of South Coast NSW. With 160+GB of recordings in the bag, it’s time to head home and start creating. Big thanks to the the Botanic Gardens staff, the team at the Bas & Eurobodalla locals for your assistance 💚
Today’s workplace 🌊
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Today’s workplace 🌊
Listening and recording the sounds of first light and dawn in the coastal forests on the South Coast of NSW. I was naming the the birds in my head as I heard them…was that a chicken? 😳 Yep, a clucking clucker 🐔amongst the native Wattlebirds, Currawongs, Honeyeaters and Kookaburras.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Listening and recording the sounds of first light and dawn in the coastal forests on the South Coast of NSW. I was naming the the birds in my head as I heard them…was that a chicken? 😳 Yep, a clucking clucker 🐔amongst the native Wattlebirds, Currawongs, Honeyeaters and Kookaburras.
Sun 27 July is National Tree Day in Australia. What a great excuse to have a listen to an Aussie tree...or maybe one from England, France, Germany, Venezuela, Canada, the US, or Kenya.
arboreus.earth growing a virtual, global forest—one soundscape at a time.
🎧 recommended - arboreus.earth/trees/
arboreus.earth growing a virtual, global forest—one soundscape at a time.
🎧 recommended - arboreus.earth/trees/
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The sounds of a virtual, global forest
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July 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Sun 27 July is National Tree Day in Australia. What a great excuse to have a listen to an Aussie tree...or maybe one from England, France, Germany, Venezuela, Canada, the US, or Kenya.
arboreus.earth growing a virtual, global forest—one soundscape at a time.
🎧 recommended - arboreus.earth/trees/
arboreus.earth growing a virtual, global forest—one soundscape at a time.
🎧 recommended - arboreus.earth/trees/
It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.
There are few things more satisfying than a desk clean. I have space.
July 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
There are few things more satisfying than a desk clean. I have space.
I’ve been an exhibiting artist for 24yrs. My practice has been centred on ecological issues for the past 17yrs, the past 6 on full-time equiv hrs. I pay my bills doing part-time work in comms/journalism. I was asked today what am I doing while I’m ‘between real jobs'? Being an artist doesn’t count 🙄
July 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’ve been an exhibiting artist for 24yrs. My practice has been centred on ecological issues for the past 17yrs, the past 6 on full-time equiv hrs. I pay my bills doing part-time work in comms/journalism. I was asked today what am I doing while I’m ‘between real jobs'? Being an artist doesn’t count 🙄
It’s World Listening Day. I’m dwelling on what it means to be a listener. This week, my soundscape has been dominated by the construction sounds of a 444ha solar development, that will clear 68.5ha of native veg, incl. an Endangered Ecological Community. This soundscape is being altered forever.
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s World Listening Day. I’m dwelling on what it means to be a listener. This week, my soundscape has been dominated by the construction sounds of a 444ha solar development, that will clear 68.5ha of native veg, incl. an Endangered Ecological Community. This soundscape is being altered forever.