Luxmore Hut is located about 15km south-west from Te Anau on the South Island of New Zealand.  It is the first hut along the Kepler Track (a 60km tramping track circuit) in the Fiordland National Park.  The hut is roughly 1400km above sea level and is the highest point of the track.  There are incredible views from the hut of the surrounding mountains and Lake Te Anau.  At the time of our arrival there had been an unseasonable late snow drop which covered the whole mountain plain in thick (deep) snow with the very likely chance of avalanches, had we decided to tramp further (we didn't.)  This recording documents the seemingly ferocious winds that surrounded the hut in the early hours of the morning.  I couldn't sleep very well - I was pretty spooked by the jolts of wind, the creaks of the hut and the occasional short whistle.  Even more disconcerting was the silence as the wind suddenly dropped for a few seconds before starting up again.  Recorded on an Edirol HD-09 hard disk recorder with mic gain and limiter activated.


Winds pass through Luxmore Hut, New Zealand - 3am; 8 October 2010

Tristan Louth-Robins is a South Australian artist working principally in the medium of sound art and field recording. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins' practice, traversing the space between the visual and aural his work is realised through the mediums of recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world. 


Since 2005, Louth-Robins has presented work in Australia and internationally as a solo artist, whilst also collaborating with artists, writers, researchers, musicians and performers. 

Working across a vast array of activities encompassing composition, sound design, installation art, field recording and workshops, his work has been featured in events such as the Adelaide Festival of Arts (2006), The National Regional Arts Festival (2012), Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival (2013), Fairfax Festival (2013) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2014); and selected works exhibited at galleries including The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (2009), SASA Gallery (2012, 2015), Light Square Gallery (2012) and FELT Space (2015). His audio works have been broadcast on radio including Radio National, Classic FM, The BBC (UK), Acoustic Frontiers (USA) and RBB (Germany).