Alex Wegman 🚲🎧🇬🇧🇦🇺
@ajwegsound.bsky.social
Sound, bicycles, radio, coffee, conversation, the outdoors.
Formerly sound for BBC, ITV, Network Ten, IMG.
Educator in audio and tv production.
Doctoral research on critical listening.
Multitracks not stems 🙂
Occasional music stuff since ~1987.
Formerly sound for BBC, ITV, Network Ten, IMG.
Educator in audio and tv production.
Doctoral research on critical listening.
Multitracks not stems 🙂
Occasional music stuff since ~1987.
Reposted by Alex Wegman 🚲🎧🇬🇧🇦🇺
Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
Sparing a thought for the folk of #Hobart #Tasmania (my place of youth) who look like they've been lumped with a vast infernal debt-laden building project that was strongly advised against by rigorous economic study but was pushed through anyway.
Experts...eh? What do they know? 😠
Experts...eh? What do they know? 😠
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I did wonder…
I’m not very good at self-promotion, but here’s a repost for the Sunday readers out there 🙂 There’s a claim that is being repeated more often of late that cyder was a different and superior drink to cider. In this long read (perfect with a cup of tea or a glass of cider) I debunk this modern myth.
Modern Myth-Busting: The Cyder Controversi
Barry debunks the myth that ‘cyder’ and ‘cider’ are different drinks, tracing the spelling history and enduring cultural heritage of cider.
cider-review.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I did wonder…
If it wasn’t for motor traffic and scooter riders’ personal mandate to dress as ninjas, the cycle commute at this time of year would be most pleasant.
#BCP #CycleToWork
#BCP #CycleToWork
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If it wasn’t for motor traffic and scooter riders’ personal mandate to dress as ninjas, the cycle commute at this time of year would be most pleasant.
#BCP #CycleToWork
#BCP #CycleToWork
Some more reading has arrived.
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Some more reading has arrived.
Foley paraphernalia. No particular reason.
#audioproduction
#audioproduction
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Foley paraphernalia. No particular reason.
#audioproduction
#audioproduction
Portland, Dorset
November 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Portland, Dorset
Great conversation between Chris Hedges and Dave Milner, during Hedges' Australian visit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...
Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Great conversation between Chris Hedges and Dave Milner, during Hedges' Australian visit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...
Gulp! Starting an Ed Doc (part time around everything else). Send chocolate as I'll be a while.
Research around critical listening, aural diversity and the co-creation of inclusive learning experiences in the sound studio.
#AudioEducation
Research around critical listening, aural diversity and the co-creation of inclusive learning experiences in the sound studio.
#AudioEducation
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Gulp! Starting an Ed Doc (part time around everything else). Send chocolate as I'll be a while.
Research around critical listening, aural diversity and the co-creation of inclusive learning experiences in the sound studio.
#AudioEducation
Research around critical listening, aural diversity and the co-creation of inclusive learning experiences in the sound studio.
#AudioEducation
Ruin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 2005.
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ruin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 2005.
September 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
eBay bargain. I don’t currently do a lot of ambisonics recording, but lugging around an Ambeo + cable + MixPre is a bit boring, so I’ll give this compact gadget a spin. A decent windshield will be the next thing to get.
#fieldrecording #ambisonics
#fieldrecording #ambisonics
September 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
eBay bargain. I don’t currently do a lot of ambisonics recording, but lugging around an Ambeo + cable + MixPre is a bit boring, so I’ll give this compact gadget a spin. A decent windshield will be the next thing to get.
#fieldrecording #ambisonics
#fieldrecording #ambisonics
Great mysteries of the world. Two radio-controlled clocks that update themselves, but one has an offset. No mechanical mis-alignment. Does the internet collective know about such things?
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Great mysteries of the world. Two radio-controlled clocks that update themselves, but one has an offset. No mechanical mis-alignment. Does the internet collective know about such things?
Ok hardly new, but bendy buses would have been more successful if they’d made accordion noises when going around corners.
Okay, lets do this.
One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
August 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Ok hardly new, but bendy buses would have been more successful if they’d made accordion noises when going around corners.
Excuse me…why was I not told about this…?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
Australians in London taste test M&S lamingtons: ‘A cubed cake does not a lamington make’
The UK retailer has released its own versions of the classic Australian cake. Melbourne-born Londoner Rose Johnstone assembles a group of UK-based Australians to try it
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Excuse me…why was I not told about this…?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...
Such a gem of a show from the 90s. Many familiar faces. If you’re anywhere near the media, the Beeb and/or broadcast news in general, watch at least the opening 15 mins.
youtu.be/5KEYH65Ypqc?...
youtu.be/5KEYH65Ypqc?...
In the Red - Episode 1 (1998) | Stephen Fry, Richard Griffiths - Comedy Thriller
YouTube video by Budget VHS Bin
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Such a gem of a show from the 90s. Many familiar faces. If you’re anywhere near the media, the Beeb and/or broadcast news in general, watch at least the opening 15 mins.
youtu.be/5KEYH65Ypqc?...
youtu.be/5KEYH65Ypqc?...
Farage’s plans don’t need to ‘work’. I don’t think that’s what he’s about.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Farage’s plans don’t need to ‘work’. I don’t think that’s what he’s about.
Good walk to Hurst Castle. Lots of military and lighthouse historical stuff. Need to return with camera and sound recorder.
#Hampshire #Solent
#Hampshire #Solent
August 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good walk to Hurst Castle. Lots of military and lighthouse historical stuff. Need to return with camera and sound recorder.
#Hampshire #Solent
#Hampshire #Solent
Only recently found out that one of my favourite non-fiction writers, William Langewiesche, passed away two months ago, after a long illness. His writing was compelling and covered a myriad of themes; his deep musings on aviation are encapsulated brilliantly in this essay collection.
August 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Only recently found out that one of my favourite non-fiction writers, William Langewiesche, passed away two months ago, after a long illness. His writing was compelling and covered a myriad of themes; his deep musings on aviation are encapsulated brilliantly in this essay collection.
Quite
see this annoys me because it's not 'AI', it's machine learning - it's been around for a while but steadily been improving over the last decade. this is a deliberate attempt to cement in the public eye that all of this comes under 'AI' so all the genAI shit must also be similarly good
![Screenshot from BBC News
BBC News
Health
AI-designed antibiotics pave way for defeating superbugs
[image in article: In the foreground is a round, translucent, petri dish with tiny blue dots of bacterial growth. It is being held by a scientist, out of focus in the background, wearing a pair of purple latex gloves and using a fine needle-like implement to manipulate the blue bacterial colonies. Image source, Getty Images]
James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent
@JamesTGallagher
Published 9 minutes ago
Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.
The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests.
The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.
But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreihz6xtryylp4lkmow4dmf5zrhmhws7srjulpj2lo7nrivlyjxqnzy@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Quite
August 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Say ‘school holidays’ without saying it…
July 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Say ‘school holidays’ without saying it…
Good read, especially if you’re following climate science and policy.
1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...
How the Grift Works
Trump pulls off a nasty con--and maybe he gets rolled too
billmckibben.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Good read, especially if you’re following climate science and policy.