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

I love ducks but they make keeping poultry tricky with their poor sanitary habits. I hope you’ve survived the heat this week. It’s been tough going up here.

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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 · 24/12/2025

And a Merry Christmas Eve to you!

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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 · 29/11/2025

I feel you have an advantage over many of us @ecosystemunraveller.com - a great list 🙌🏼

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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 · 13/11/2025

It’s pretty special. I was lucky to see the aurora in Iceland twice, but I’m yet to be up late enough to see it here. You got a mention today though in an interview I did with BirdLife Aust’s Kristy Peters about mistletoe. It was a great yarn.

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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 · 14/09/2025

🙏🏻 and yes, only good things 😊

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KV Goldsmith @kvgoldsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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 · 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

“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...

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ecoartspace - Online store product

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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 appreciate that. Most of the time I know it. When the comments come from family in particular, it probably hurts the most. Many of the elders in my family (and many politicians) believe art is a hobby or a luxury, or something to make money from, and not something that contributes to the world.

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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 · 04/07/2025

Thank you. It is worth a think. It’s still not clear cut for me either, and depends on what lens I’m looking at it with.

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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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