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Storm Éowyn passed through Edinburgh and had fun kicking this tin can up the street and back down again!
24th January 2025
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Storm Éowyn (tin can in the street)

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Starting today a new series of podcasts from the listening planet.

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Soundwalk Collective - The Time Of The Night (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg & Patti Smith)

Julie Rousse - RIVER FEEDBACK (extrait)

Intro by ACHIGÃ and Veljo Runnel
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FOME! #1

Bank St Arts, Sheffield, 25 March 2010
(Peter to the right of the picture at SoundSpacePlay, Leeds in a performance of La-la-la Walk, 2015.)

Weiss/Weisslich 20 (Peter Ablinger) premiere

Waders feeding on shoreline, west coast of South Uist island, Scotland, April 2025

2025 04-18 South Uist waders feeding

An excerpt from an evening-to-dawn recording: here, Glossy Black Cockatoos are departing a forest at dawn, at the western end of Kangaroo Island.

The Glossy Black Cockatoo of Kangaroo Island is a unique subspecies (Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus), which is listed as endangered in South Australia, and as a species of concern on Kangaroo Island itself. It is one of 16 bird species endemic to the island.

The Glossy Black originally also inhabited the southernmost coastal region of South Australia, but due to invasive and extensive land clearing for sheep and cattle, forests of Sheoak were demolished. The Glossy Black Cockatoo feeds exclusively on the seeds in the cones of Sheoak trees (Casuarina and Allocasuarina). For refuge and survival, the Glossy Blacks retreated to Kangaroo Island, where large stands of Sheoak still remained intact. The Glossy Blacks disappeared entirely from the mainland.

During the unnaturally intense bushfires of the 'Black Summer' of 2019-2020, vast areas of natural bushland, mainly at the western end of the island, were severely damaged. The stands of Sheoak that the Glossy Blacks depended upon for food and nesting were obliterated. Unlike eucalypts, which can resprout, Sheoaks must grow again from seed, and it may take ten or more years for new seed-bearing Sheoak forests to re-establish themselves. The Glossy Blacks have now retreated to the east end of the island, untouched by the bushfires, where stands of Sheoak remain. However, the eastern end of the island is much more heavily populated by people than the western end, which comprises large areas of national parks, conservation parks, and wilderness protection areas.

While it is currently relatively easy to catch sight of Glossy Blacks at the busy and noisy eastern end of the island, it is not so easy to see them, let alone to record them, at the western end of the island, a mere five years after the bushfire. I had no intention whatsoever to seek them out in the eastern end, at the cost of human busyness and noise.

Surprisingly, however, this recording was made in a forest at the western end of the island - largely through the grace of the (I dare say it) perfectly normal, natural, biological state of being 'turned-on, tuned-in, dropped-out', i.e., the 'cosmic kindness', of the Glossy Black Cockatoos, themselves! I had caught sight of just one quite unexpected Glossy Black arriving in the early evening; and, without knowing exactly where the Glossy Black had gone, I set up my recording gear for an overnight to dawn recording. Several more must have also arrived during the evening; they departed again, at dawn. I feel confident in saying that these guys live purely for life and love, per se, and absolutely not for love of profit... I adore and respect their pure existence, and their acutely difficult struggle for continued existence.

(MKH 8040s ORTF > Zoom F3)

Track photograph credit: Michael Jury, photograph taken on 7th March 2023 on Kangaroo Island. (https://www.mykelphotography.com.au/latest-trips-and-location-copy-1)

2025.04.10 Dawn with Glossy Black Cockatoos. Kangaroo Island. Autumn.

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Storm Éowyn (tin can in the street)

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