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Listener living through big tech and climate crisis Program manager, digital media at rmit university Admin at avantwhatever.org [bridged from https://avantwhatever.org/@benbyrne on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

I'm guest editing an issue of Journal of Sonic Studies addressing radical organizing and sonic practice. Call for proposals and details at the link. Please share and get in touch if you're interested to submit. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558606/558713

Home page JSS by Journal of Sonic Studies

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Beautiful work from Polly Stanton showing for free in the Black Box at RMIT in Naarm this Thursday as part of the ongoing Listening Practice series we in the DSP research group run https://events.humanitix.com/lp7-polly-stanton

LP7 - Polly Stanton

Sound, cities and museums: a short series of travel insights

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

Kati Thanda/Lake Eyre from the Oodnadatta track. You never never know if you never never go. Astounding part of the world.

A big blue sky over a thin white line of salt lake with an arid landscape of red earth and small shrubs in the foreground

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

#silentsunday

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1

Infinite report writing https://lorenzosenni.bandcamp.com/album/canone-infinito-xtended #nowplaying

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

New Kelly Reichardt at the Melbourne International Film Festival! The Mastermind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6ky_Bt86M

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11

Pimmon 🔊

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 17

Xenakis's Persepolis still rocks

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 12

Classic. https://ilpovaeisaenen.bandcamp.com/album/asuma-2025-remaster #nowplaying

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 8

A black gum, a species only found at Woodend in Victoria

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · May 11

Signage reading 'IGA + Liquor' on Brunswick SupaIGA's angular roof, against a cool, blue, sunny sky, the supermarket newly reopened after fire damage

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · May 1

May day 💪

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 19

"Ghostly deltas and luminous beaches"

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 12

The most excellent Radiophrenia has started and a new work of mine, Tumut, will be broadcast on April 17 at 6:20 pm Glasgow time as part of the festival. That's 3:20am April 18 for all you nightowls living in Naarm aligned slices of the future I believe. The work documents a happy encounter I […]

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 25

@projectgus Thanks heaps. This confirms what I've found from some quick research. The 207 has been good to us so it's a shame to let it go but it's clearly time.

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 25

Hey @projectgus 👋 you're into EV conversions, yeah? My Peugeot 207 from about 2011 is entering not worth repairing territory. Any advice on whether it's worth looking into converting it?

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 21

A flock of corellas arcing across wispy clouds, with blue sky beyond and tree canopies below

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 6

Miyuki Jokiranta and I are sharing an ambisonic surround sound version of our recently premiered audio piece Whalefall in the 24.2 Black Box space at RMIT next week - free by RSVP with all welcome: https://events.humanitix.com/lp1-miyuki-jokiranta-and-ben-byrne

LP1 - Miyuki Jokiranta and Ben Byrne

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 3

Cockatoos circling over RMIT city campus as I head to teach a new sonic ecologies focused studio. Great to have them around but they never used to be here. Guess maybe they're hungry?

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 1

Growing tasty noxious weeds as a hobby

Hops cones ready for harvest on a leafy green tangle of vines

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 14

Miyuki Jokiranta and I have just published a new audio work, Whalefall, commissioned and broadcast by ORF 1's Kunst zum Hören. The piece listens to the stories of leviathans, mythic and real. Please have a listen, turn up the bass, and share your thoughts. It's available now on the program's […]

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 14

Listeners in Naarm, do yourself a favour and check out Hayden Ryan's beautiful multichannel audio work White Noise, on now in the Liquid Architecture studio in Collingwood https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/recompositions

Recompositions | Liquid Architecture

Presented at West Space in collaboration with Liquid Architecture, the show interrogates modernity’s relation with calculability, q…

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Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 14

Visited this guy last night at MESS. Serge stuff is such a wonderful way to push your thinking about programming audio. It's all signal.

A panel of Serge synth modules with glossy hand applied paper labeling

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 9

A brown river with a rocky, lightly tree covered escarpment on the other side

Ben @benbyrne.avantwhatever.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 8

Good day to pay for some music https://bumwelt.bandcamp.com/album/dont-be-mean-with-the-dopamine