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Dear Friends of Locative Audio!
After a bums up – heads down hiatus we thought we’d have a bit of fun making a different kind of newsletter. This campaign was fun to create and we hope you will enjoy it too.
We have have just soft-launched the Soundtrails Academy and with it our new website. Thus you have now – tadaa! – the ability to leave a reply to our posts. So give it to us straight; it would be lovely to hear from you.
Now, we invite you to click on the pink circles (hotspots) on the map if you want to hear Hamish and myself talk about nature, why we do what we do and what’s in store for Soundtrails.
Admittedly we do go on a bit, but you can quickly shut us up. (click the x).
So, go on, give it a go. Walk the Talk with Hamish and Bettina.
Here is the kind of stuff we talk about:
01 Fire and Brimstone, Frogmouths and Leeches
Is Hamish nailing the Marbled Frogmouth call? You be the judge.
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02 Rickety Bridges and Space Junk
We talk about
- How do we work and honour places, history and communities?
- What’s involved in making meaningful and authentic work?
- About archiveability
- About the responsibility to NOT attract hordes of people trampling through cultural precious or fragile environments
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03 Academy
We talk about
- New Soundtrails offerings including the brand-new Soundtrails Academy.
- Learning from experience, the importance of release forms, contracts and due diligence. We obsess.
- How we aim to become better allies to First Nations people
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04 Who is the Producer here?
Talking about
- producing place based story production
- Bloody contracts again
- Sponsorships
- Stuffit
- Walk Listen Create
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05 Hotspot Frogspot
Thanks for all the Frogs and Goodnight
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06 Frogs and Bird of the Rainforest
We just can’t get enough.
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Just add water
The force of life.
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A Little Tune
To round things off…. or start… depending which way you went.
In other News
From Walking Trails to Soundtrails
We will be presenting an updated version of our talk ‘From Walking Trails to Soundtrails’ with Stephen Muecke and Jennifer Eadie at the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Conference 2023 – on the 5th to 8th of December in Adelaide.
The talk is about the conceptual beginnings of a research project of mutual benefit. The aim is to develop a sustainable and equitable model for audio walking trails led by remote communities. How can locative audio be a force for good for remote communities? How can we be of service?
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Soundtrails are proud sponsors of
- The prestigious Soundwalk September Awards. Sound Trails Pty Ltd is supporting the growth and the showcasing of the audio walk industry. Check out walk · listen · create >
- The STUFFit Student Film Festival – Soundtrails is supporting the development of our local creative and education industry. The ‘STUFFit’ student film festival is offering a Cert3 accreditation in Event Management and promoting careers in film and media. Congratulations to Robyn Cook and her team to organising an amazing event. Registrations for participating in the STUFFit crew 2024 are open now.
That’s us for now.
Stay curious.
Hamish and Bettina
P.S. Don’t forget to check out the brandnew Soundtrails Academy.
If you are interested in these conversations, add a reply below or send us a message though our contact form.
Credits
We acknowledge the people who moved the Soundtrails Experiment forward in one way or another.
To name few: Helen Wilkinson, Kris Randall, Keaton Mustard, Michael Strong, Gavin James, Christine Parfitt, Robyn Cook, the Creatio crew, our wonderful producer collaborators and also Lindsey Drummond – our improv teacher, that made us loose all inhibitions, Yes, and!
