Hamish Sewell
@hamish-sewell.bsky.social
Locative audio, place memories, oral history, sound stories, orality
Quality is what we’re after
as we map the media landscape before the end of 2025
and old magnetic tapes fall off the cliff.
What's your succession plan?
as we map the media landscape before the end of 2025
and old magnetic tapes fall off the cliff.
What's your succession plan?
In deference to sound archivists
ASRA conference, 2025, Sydney
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November 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Quality is what we’re after
as we map the media landscape before the end of 2025
and old magnetic tapes fall off the cliff.
What's your succession plan?
as we map the media landscape before the end of 2025
and old magnetic tapes fall off the cliff.
What's your succession plan?
MQ students checking out binaural sounds using Soundtrails. Barangaroo—surely one of Australia's most iconic sites, is notably mute as a site specific storied experience today. Audio, as a way into a people, places and stories, is so much more granular and accessible than video.
Barangaroo Soundtrails
Macquarie University sound students doing their at Barangaroo in Sydney
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October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
MQ students checking out binaural sounds using Soundtrails. Barangaroo—surely one of Australia's most iconic sites, is notably mute as a site specific storied experience today. Audio, as a way into a people, places and stories, is so much more granular and accessible than video.
And here I was sitting in the #1 seat in the big hall at Macquarie Uni. Might be 20 years too late, but so much fun. Graduation day. My PhD on Soundtrails: awarded a Vice Chancellors commendation.
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And here I was sitting in the #1 seat in the big hall at Macquarie Uni. Might be 20 years too late, but so much fun. Graduation day. My PhD on Soundtrails: awarded a Vice Chancellors commendation.
If we've got international competitions for creative storytelling across the spectrum—from books and film to radio and podcasts—then what about judging an audio walk? hamishsewell.substack.com/p/how-to-jud...
How to judge an audio walk
Sound Walk September/Walk Listen Create
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October 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If we've got international competitions for creative storytelling across the spectrum—from books and film to radio and podcasts—then what about judging an audio walk? hamishsewell.substack.com/p/how-to-jud...
A window into mapping and cultural mapping from someone involved in locative media. #Papola #Soundtrails
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Locative mapping
The power and perfidy
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October 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A window into mapping and cultural mapping from someone involved in locative media. #Papola #Soundtrails
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Soundtrails wishes to celebrate and acknowledge the publication of her new book, "Growing up at Sheep Station Gulley," by local #Inverell artist, writer and #Gomeroi elder, Tanya Connors.
Tanya and her brother, Leroy were instrumental in the production of the #GoonoowigallSoundtrail. Go Tanya!
Tanya and her brother, Leroy were instrumental in the production of the #GoonoowigallSoundtrail. Go Tanya!
September 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Soundtrails wishes to celebrate and acknowledge the publication of her new book, "Growing up at Sheep Station Gulley," by local #Inverell artist, writer and #Gomeroi elder, Tanya Connors.
Tanya and her brother, Leroy were instrumental in the production of the #GoonoowigallSoundtrail. Go Tanya!
Tanya and her brother, Leroy were instrumental in the production of the #GoonoowigallSoundtrail. Go Tanya!
Feedback from recent workshops etc that #Soundtrails has been involved in with tertiary music/media sector has been so inspiring. Born storytellers, music students 'get' the whole idea of audio walks & 'place-story.' #soundtrailsacademcy
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We're super excited to be working with Soundtrails at our Sydney, Melbourne and Perth campuses! 🎵🎶
Our students completing the Community Music unit (MUS213) are collaborating with Soundtrails to...
We're super excited to be working with Soundtrails at our Sydney, Melbourne and Perth campuses! 🎵🎶
Our students completing the Community Music unit (MUS213) are collaborating with Soundtrails to cre...
lnkd.in
September 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Feedback from recent workshops etc that #Soundtrails has been involved in with tertiary music/media sector has been so inspiring. Born storytellers, music students 'get' the whole idea of audio walks & 'place-story.' #soundtrailsacademcy
lnkd.in/gwi7-3kV
lnkd.in/gwi7-3kV
Travels to Walmajarri Country: a great night - packed house - in Canberra @ Manning Clark House with poet Kerrie Nelson & writer/artist Kim Mahood holding forth on 20 years of cultural mapping with TOs at Mulan and Balgo WA. #culturalmapping #deeptimestories #haikusonbushflies #soundtrails
August 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Travels to Walmajarri Country: a great night - packed house - in Canberra @ Manning Clark House with poet Kerrie Nelson & writer/artist Kim Mahood holding forth on 20 years of cultural mapping with TOs at Mulan and Balgo WA. #culturalmapping #deeptimestories #haikusonbushflies #soundtrails
Memory and Place: going hand and glove...
🤨 Have you ever walked into the kitchen… and forgotten why you went there? | Pelle Guldborg Hansen | 65 comments
🤨 Have you ever walked into the kitchen… and forgotten why you went there?
So you go back to the living room, sit down again 🛋️ - and suddenly remember 💡.
It feels trivial. But what it reveals isn’t...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Memory and Place: going hand and glove...
Calling all Oz sound aficionados: up-and-coming conf Sydney/ late Oct 2025.
"...the real power here, let alone authority, is most salient when listeners enter into genuine cultural, creative embodied relationship with/attunement to the physical world."
Fingers crossed, CU there!
"...the real power here, let alone authority, is most salient when listeners enter into genuine cultural, creative embodied relationship with/attunement to the physical world."
Fingers crossed, CU there!
ASRA
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August 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Calling all Oz sound aficionados: up-and-coming conf Sydney/ late Oct 2025.
"...the real power here, let alone authority, is most salient when listeners enter into genuine cultural, creative embodied relationship with/attunement to the physical world."
Fingers crossed, CU there!
"...the real power here, let alone authority, is most salient when listeners enter into genuine cultural, creative embodied relationship with/attunement to the physical world."
Fingers crossed, CU there!
Vale David Stratton.
In April 2025, I interviewed movie critic, David Stratton for the National Library’s Eminent Australian’s oral history collection.I wish to pay tribute to David as an archivist: as encapsulated in his converted car garage/ personal cinema: 30,000 films & a lifetime of reviews.
In April 2025, I interviewed movie critic, David Stratton for the National Library’s Eminent Australian’s oral history collection.I wish to pay tribute to David as an archivist: as encapsulated in his converted car garage/ personal cinema: 30,000 films & a lifetime of reviews.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Vale David Stratton.
In April 2025, I interviewed movie critic, David Stratton for the National Library’s Eminent Australian’s oral history collection.I wish to pay tribute to David as an archivist: as encapsulated in his converted car garage/ personal cinema: 30,000 films & a lifetime of reviews.
In April 2025, I interviewed movie critic, David Stratton for the National Library’s Eminent Australian’s oral history collection.I wish to pay tribute to David as an archivist: as encapsulated in his converted car garage/ personal cinema: 30,000 films & a lifetime of reviews.
Funny- up to a point
August 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Funny- up to a point
A pleasure to be part of this project as an oral historian over the last few years. Well done the #NLA. The Indian/Australian community, in all its culture, languages and commerce, is such an important tonal element in the weft of poetry, politics and people of Australian society today
We asked Australians with Indian heritage to help us build our collection. | National Library of Australia
We asked Australians with Indian heritage to help us build our collection.
Photographs and oral history interviews documenting the Indian-Australian community are now available on Trove.
Discover ...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A pleasure to be part of this project as an oral historian over the last few years. Well done the #NLA. The Indian/Australian community, in all its culture, languages and commerce, is such an important tonal element in the weft of poetry, politics and people of Australian society today
"…torn away from the movement of history, then returned; no longer quite life, not yet death, like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded."
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Mémoire." representations 26 (1989) 12
@papola #soundtrails
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Mémoire." representations 26 (1989) 12
@papola #soundtrails
August 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"…torn away from the movement of history, then returned; no longer quite life, not yet death, like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded."
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Mémoire." representations 26 (1989) 12
@papola #soundtrails
Nora, Pierre. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Mémoire." representations 26 (1989) 12
@papola #soundtrails
Big shout out to this one. Doesn't appear to be working with voice and narrative or be walked on location. An interesting re-take on the value of in-situ audio & GPS tagging them via online map. #soundtrails #papola Thanks, @babakfakhamzadeh.com.
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citiesandmemory.com/what-is-citi...
What is Cities and Memory?
Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art work that presents the present reality of a place and also its imagined, alternative counterpart.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Big shout out to this one. Doesn't appear to be working with voice and narrative or be walked on location. An interesting re-take on the value of in-situ audio & GPS tagging them via online map. #soundtrails #papola Thanks, @babakfakhamzadeh.com.
citiesandmemory.com/what-is-citi...
citiesandmemory.com/what-is-citi...
Big shout out to SAE University Colleges in Syd, Melb & Perth: up and running with our Soundtrails Academy program. We're proud of the teaching modules, the tiered system for teachers and students & believe more than ever in the power of audio walks #storiedworld.
soundtrails.com.au/elementor-19...
soundtrails.com.au/elementor-19...
SAE Joins the ST Academy - Soundtrails
The Soundtrails Academy is excited to work with Melbourne, Perth and Sydney campuses of the global creative media network SAE University College. The Soundtrails Academy has been developed to accommod...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Big shout out to SAE University Colleges in Syd, Melb & Perth: up and running with our Soundtrails Academy program. We're proud of the teaching modules, the tiered system for teachers and students & believe more than ever in the power of audio walks #storiedworld.
soundtrails.com.au/elementor-19...
soundtrails.com.au/elementor-19...
The attention we pay to the (storied) world around us. Some good things coming out of Substack #papola #soundtrails
The Art of Noticing
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The Art of Noticing
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The Art of Noticing | Rob Walker | Substack
Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker. Click to read The Art of Noticing, by Rob Walker, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The attention we pay to the (storied) world around us. Some good things coming out of Substack #papola #soundtrails
The Art of Noticing
robwalker.substack.com?r=20rrxe&utm...
The Art of Noticing
robwalker.substack.com?r=20rrxe&utm...
What better way to come back into BSK after kicking off @papola substack acc: a wonderful approach to tourism that isn't cram-em-in & nasty:
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The Courage to Host Regeneration
It took nearly a year and an almost insurmountable level of courage and vision for the Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon’s Julia Heiroth to put together a very different kind of annual tourism...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
What better way to come back into BSK after kicking off @papola substack acc: a wonderful approach to tourism that isn't cram-em-in & nasty:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/courag...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/courag...
Democracy sausage + Museum style forays in former PMs offices + cool quizzes on Australian democracy en-route in a long line. Heartening to exercise this right. Voting at old Parliament House rocks!
May 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Democracy sausage + Museum style forays in former PMs offices + cool quizzes on Australian democracy en-route in a long line. Heartening to exercise this right. Voting at old Parliament House rocks!
So slow to cross the coast. Fingers crossed Cyclone Albert will not wreak too much destruction my Qld friends.
March 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
So slow to cross the coast. Fingers crossed Cyclone Albert will not wreak too much destruction my Qld friends.
Taxim Trio. Jazzy Greek music - my hang out! Smiths Alternative, Canberra
March 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Taxim Trio. Jazzy Greek music - my hang out! Smiths Alternative, Canberra
1/2 hour east of Canberra. Its evening. Washing up & my view out the kitchen window. Often the young males are boxing.
February 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
1/2 hour east of Canberra. Its evening. Washing up & my view out the kitchen window. Often the young males are boxing.
Yay @francescalejeune.bsky.social has just joined the ranks of BS
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Yay @francescalejeune.bsky.social has just joined the ranks of BS
Divorce - tick
Settlement - tick
House Sold - tick
Beautiful last weekend in Qld with friends - tick
Oh, and PhD JUST submitted - tick
Bye bye Queensland.
This 60/ 61 y/o- bd tomoz- is now heading to Canberra to see what awaits.
Settlement - tick
House Sold - tick
Beautiful last weekend in Qld with friends - tick
Oh, and PhD JUST submitted - tick
Bye bye Queensland.
This 60/ 61 y/o- bd tomoz- is now heading to Canberra to see what awaits.
January 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Divorce - tick
Settlement - tick
House Sold - tick
Beautiful last weekend in Qld with friends - tick
Oh, and PhD JUST submitted - tick
Bye bye Queensland.
This 60/ 61 y/o- bd tomoz- is now heading to Canberra to see what awaits.
Settlement - tick
House Sold - tick
Beautiful last weekend in Qld with friends - tick
Oh, and PhD JUST submitted - tick
Bye bye Queensland.
This 60/ 61 y/o- bd tomoz- is now heading to Canberra to see what awaits.