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KV Goldsmith

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🛠️ interdisciplinary artist 💚 sound 🎤 ecoacoustics 🐜 social ecology ✍🏻 storyteller🚶walking artist📍Wiradjuri Country, Australia 🔗 linktr.ee/goldsmithsstudio Profile: ‘V’ drawn in sand. Header: Microscope view of a Christmas beetle.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 4h

Pastel skies after a warm, grey, showery couple of days across the Western Plains of NSW.

Pink and mauve dusk skies to the west at dusk. Dark trees in the foreground.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 4d

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.

A world map with red markers of where the sonic tree portraits have come from on the arboreus.earth site. 9 countries are currently represented — Australia, England, USA, Canada, Kenya, Venezuela, Poland, France, Germany.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16d

White-plumed Honeyeater eggs in a beautiful nest of woven grass and cobwebs, found in the back of my garden.

Two light brown speckled honeyeater eggs in a woven nest of grasses and cobwebs attached to a young tree.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 19d

The view on my way to work in the mornings these days. A pre-dawn Dubbo City.

Night lights of the city on the plains with the first light of the day appearing in the east.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 25d

🙏🏻 and yes, only good things 😊

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 25d

Forever more! I’m the official new presenter. We were talking about you on Friday 😆 You were one of the best.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you!

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Sep 6

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.

A photo of me holding headphones behind an ABC branded microphone in the radio studio with ABC signage on a banner behind me.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Yes, big changes.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s the first day of spring tomorrow 🥶 The only thing we don’t get here is snow. Winter can piss off now.

A screenshot of the current temperature in Dubbo -1.8°C feels like -5.2°C.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 20

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/

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is a bit rude for the end of winter. I don’t need this for my predawn work starts 🥶

A screenshot of the weather in Dubbo on a Sunday morning — -2.1°C feels like -4.7°C.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 15

Wallaby today? 🦘 This fella has a story to tell 😕

A Red-necked wallaby grazing, showing scars on its back.

A Red-necked wallaby grazing weeds on a mound of dirt.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 15

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.

Macro photo of a microscopic web beneath decaying wood in the soil.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 8

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 🤯

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Soils Turn” is co-edited by Ass. Prof. Arts & Research at Bauhaus University Weimar, Alexandra R. Toland & curator & ecoartspace founder, Patricia Watts. Limited edition of 300. Pre-orders being taken now - ecoartspace.org/Sys/Store/Pr...

ecoartspace - Online store product

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 3

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.

The cover of "Soils Turn: A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements".

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Aug 2

They’re so judgmental.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 31

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 💚

A female King parrot and me hanging out on the deck at the house.

Signage at the entrance of the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens.

Signage at the Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre in Moruya, partially obscured by lomandra.

A giant River Peppermint tree trunk with a path below it.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today’s workplace 🌊

Me wearing a striped tee, sunglasses, a cap and headphones standing on a rock ledge by the ocean.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 27

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.

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 27

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/

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The sounds of a virtual, global forest

arboreus.earth

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

I’m sure of it!

KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s the start of wattle season. Yellow buds are on the cusp of bursting into yellow fluff everywhere here.

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