australia trip - to bundeena....

australia trip - exploring around the blue mountains

australia trip - blue mountains

the first photo was taken at Wired Lab before setting off for the blue mountains

its rather nice here....next two pictures are where i'm staying in blackheath

australia trip - the weekend workshop

workshops are made by the interaction between those leading & the participants. A nice group of folks gathered at The Wired Lab this weekend & a good time was, I think, had by all. The performance event on the saturday (photos to come) was a success apart from a rather odd glitch with my laptop which meant the carefully prepared projection of photographic images stopped & instead the audience were treated to a few snaps of me in a tent eating an apple ! No doubt some thought this was the oddest 'art' they'd seen for some time !

i'm now in the blue mountains for 4 days & the thunder is ringing across the landscape....

australia trip - day three  |  day four

rain, talk to locals, beef pie from the bakery, woolworths ! (no pick n' mix though), maltesers that tasted slightly different, good steak, listening....

day four so far: up at 5am for the dawn chorus, tennis court fence, house floor vibrations & cat snoring....

australia trip - day two

morning walk in canberra

then, arrival at Wired Lab - nice folks, nice food, good wires of course, loud frogs & anticipation....

after 3 days in Norfolk tutoring on another nice Wildeye course alongside Chris Watson, followed by 3 flights over 26 hours, I've now arrived in Australia for my residency at The Wired Lab.

(qantas win a prize for playing stereolab as boarding music in Melbourne !)

flying in over mountains covered in early mists, cloud like cobwebs holding on & sliding down valleys, (listening to elizabeth fraser's new work) & contemplating the time i'll spend in australia.  Its a privilege indeed to have been invited here by Sarah & Dave at Wired Lab. I am constantly aware of how lucky I am & how much my work begins with the understanding of that.

I'm staying a night in Canberra - surely the quietest capital city in the world. I went for a short walk near my hotel & saw one person on the streets. I arrived early in the morning & intended to set out for a walk & to take some photos of some of the art deco architecture, however a quick nap somehow turned into a deeper sleep & I awoke after sunset. Perhaps tomorrow morning....

in the meantime here's some archival photos of canberra....

small creatures from sweden

back from Sweden - Stockholm then Ängskärsgården to be precise.

Spent some time at EMS in Stockholm, looking around their studios & then giving a talk - well attended by an interesting bunch of folks, some of whom then joined me, Chris Watson & Piers Warren for the Wildeye Sound Recording course at the nature reserve on the east coast, 2 hours or so from the capital.

dawn choruses (in the rain & the sun), evening choruses, exploring abandoned buildings, fence wires & telephone cables, sexton beetles, grass, unidentified insects, hydrophone discoveries, empty rooms & much more....

good folks, good food, amazing scenery, some rain & much more....