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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The temperatures this week in Dubbo have been brutal for anything breathing. It’s been far worse further west — heat records broken by more than 1° in places. Another day of the heatwave to go. Heading for 45°C today and an overnight of 26°, and then fingers crossed, a more reasonable end to summer.

A graph and table showing a week of temperatures above 40°C for Dubbo, with a record breaking 46.1°C reached on 26 January. Overnight minimums have also been high the past few nights — these are severe heatwave conditions.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It’s been stinking hot here but these little guys know where the cool spots are 🐸

A grey frog powers out of the water well of a hanging pot.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Grey-headed Flying Fox Hump-backed Whales Australian Bustard Brolga Platypus

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Data collected for another year of microbat monitoring at my place for Bats in Backyards (NSW). Now it’s the wait for a report to come back to tell me what species have been logged this year. Some great pick-ups, like this one. These calls are in the 30-80 kHz frequency range 🦇🔊 #EcoAcoustics

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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 💚

A Straw-necked ibis picking through grass, framed by two trees in the foreground.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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.

Two pages from the book — one of me playing a guitar on top of soils as I listen to the soils through special microphones and the other page is a video still of an animation I made for a soundscape composition about soils for an exhibition in Italy in 2024.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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 🦘🦘🦘

A male Red-necked wallaby cleaning up thistles in my front garden.

A Red-necked wallaby mum on alert with her joey reclining in her pouch.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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 · 19/09/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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 · 06/09/2025

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 · 30/08/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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/

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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 · 15/08/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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 🤯

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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 · 31/07/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

There are few things more satisfying than a desk clean. I have space.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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 🙄

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

Behind the grassy valley and trees on a ridge in the background of this photo, a solar development is being built.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Feed cleanse. That itch you just can’t reach.

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #1

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #2

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #3

A Red-necked Wallaby in my garden trying to have a scratch #4

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Winter afternoons are perfect for paddock strolls.

Three kangaroos in long grass li with late afternoon sun.

A honeybee on the white flowers of Boobialla.

A mown path in long grass looking towards the glare of the afternoon sun.

Looking up into the canopy of a very old Mugga Ironbark. Blue sky behind.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Home again after an exhausting & exhilarating week with members of the Artists in Nature International Network at a Floating Land festival satellite event around Noosa. Big ideas, thoughtful practices, huge concerns for the future of the arts and the environment, but our strength is the collective.

Me facilitating a ceremonial commemoration called ‘5 minutes of silence’ in memory of the species and ecosystems we’ve lost and are losing. About 15 people are gathered around me for this micro event.

Curator, Kevin Wilson and Greenfields Gallery owner/artist, Robyn Glade-Wright standing side by side at the official opening of Coming Together: Right Here Right Now at Kin Kin in Queensland.

Sunshine Coast artist Tanya Hoddinott listening and feeling the clicks, crackles, and rumbles from the Listening Lab I set up with microphones and a speaker beside a spring-fed lake at the gallery site.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The ethics of listening (and recording). Exploring my thoughts on a question of how we use technology to listen in on non.human worlds. kvgoldsmithart.com/2025/06/26/e...

Omni microphones mounted either side of a Buloke trunk, also known as tree ‘ears’.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’ve been lucky enough to work around a tree full of Superb parrots today. A vulnerable species in NSW and more broadly. I had 2 hours of parrot antics while I was field recording, before moving to another site.

A bright green parrot with remote and red markings on the front of its head, feeding in a River Red Gum.

A bright green parrot with remote and red markings on the front of its head, feeding in a River Red Gum. Another photo of the same bird.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This will be my workplace tomorrow. A bit chilly, for sure, but lots to listen to and play with. This is getting close to one of the last field recording trips as part of my SOIL+AiR project. eco-pulse.art/soil-air/

A photo of an ephemeral wetland covered in grass, ringed by established eucalyptus trees of different species.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today’s the first Monday in 5 years I’ve not woken thinking about work and how to fill several social media platforms with content for the next week/month—something I’ve done since 2005. I never want to create marcoms content for anyone other than me ever again. I’ve been at it since 1996.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It was a great day on farm today with a visiting artist/researcher, Kosta from Flinders Uni, talking about the intersection of art, ecology and agriculture with my SOIL+AiR collaborator, farmer/agro-ecologist, Bruce Maynard. A lot of talking, walking, exploring, thinking, and listening.

Kosta and I playing with old abadoned farm machinery - talking about the sound making possibilities of it.

Kosta listening to a Bimble Box tree in a paddock with contact mics at the base of the tree.

Farmer Bruce Maynard talks Kosta through the practice of No-Kill Cropping in a paddock of grasses, shrubs and oats.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Feels like -5°C 🥶. I don’t live in a regular weatherboard or brick veneer house but even our ‘80s passive solar house is freezing this winter. Double glazing is the answer, but way too expensive. We make use of the sun during the day but we wear extra layers at night. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

abc.net.au

Even visitors from snowy countries realise Australian winters feel too cold

Tourists are stunned to discover they were warmer back in a country that's blanketed by snow for months of the year.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

You don’t realise how many online accounts you have until you start logging out or deleting your profile. I finished up in a job today, 1 month short of 5 years. It’s also hard to know how much detail to include in a handover to someone else who has to make the role theirs anyway.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I’m missing my early morning walks, but these temps aren’t much fun 🥶 Everything hurts on mornings like this. I’ll wait until it gets closer to that 17°.

A screenshot of the weather on my phone that says the temperature for Dubbo at 7am is -1.3°C but feels like -5.2°C. Range today is a minimum of 0 & maximum of 17°C. No rain. Morning fog and frost.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A successful first staging of ‘5 minutes of silence’ was held in a forest near Dubbo today. Part of the Artists in Nature International Network event Forests’ Dreams, ‘5 minutes’ is site specific & responsive, part performative, and all listening. 🔊🎤🌲https://kvgoldsmithart.com/5-minutes-of-silence/

A group of people stand spread out through a forest.

A group of people gather to talk in the forest.

A group of people walking along a forest track.

Four adults and a child listening to a speaker attached to contact mics at the base of a tall ironbark tree in the forest.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

arboreus.earth gives you an opportunity to travel the world without leaving home thanks to the efforts of our amazing field recording contributors. This virtual, global forest now has 22 trees and 2 forests from 8 countries. There's plenty of room for more trees! arboreus.earth/trees/

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Long weekend rainbows from the Western Plains of NSW. Coonamble NSW.

The end of a rainbow on the horizon fading into stormy clouds. A paddock of dry grass is in the foreground.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A big day of preparing for new adventures and a quick walk in Antarctic temperatures this morning accompanied by the local birblife. I’m feeling incredibly grateful for the generosity of the people in my networks for their support and belief in what I have to offer 💚

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy World Earth Day 🌏 A new batch of trees are now online for listening on arboreus.earth 🌳🎧🔉

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The sounds of a virtual, global forest

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Today’s been a big day of connections with community towards achieving something special through listening and sound...AND professional challenges. My brain hurts. You’re never too old to keep learning, as steep as that bloody hill sometimes seems. I’ll sleep well tonight.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My favourite soundtrack in the world is playing tonight — heavy rain on the roof. For once we seem to be underneath the right cloud. Fingers crossed it provides run-off into the dam.

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Today I terminated a contract on a job that I’ve enjoyed for the past 4.5 years, that has also supported my work as an artist. I'm facing new (& exciting) professional challenges. I’m still carving out time for my creative practice. I’ve worked too hard to give that up. Here’s to shaking things up!

A coloured sky at dusk through the dark form of eucalpyt trees.

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