Tristan Louth-Robins
@studiomaurilia.bsky.social
🔀 Tarntanya-based artist, sound flâneur, acoustic ecologist, writer, CSIRO: Dev, digital transformation & data wrangling. Nerd. Creator of the Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island Sound Map.
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https://linktr.ee/tristanlouthrobins 🇵🇸
First proper coastal Fleurieu recording stint in a long time. Absolutely beautiful weather today. Rapid Bay, Second Valley and the reef at Lady Bay. Traces of the climate-fuelled algal bloom are evident in places, but there’s more-than-human life present, demonstrating nature’s dogged resilience.
December 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
First proper coastal Fleurieu recording stint in a long time. Absolutely beautiful weather today. Rapid Bay, Second Valley and the reef at Lady Bay. Traces of the climate-fuelled algal bloom are evident in places, but there’s more-than-human life present, demonstrating nature’s dogged resilience.
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What #spotifywrapped tells me is people either haven't listened or have just chosen to ignore the facts artists who were essential to the platform are underpaid, the CEO invests in AI war machines, the submitted content is used to train LLMs, and they ran adverts for ICE the modern day brownshirts.
a man says " i 'm just saying " in front of a saint-pierre logo
ALT: a man says " i 'm just saying " in front of a saint-pierre logo
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December 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
What #spotifywrapped tells me is people either haven't listened or have just chosen to ignore the facts artists who were essential to the platform are underpaid, the CEO invests in AI war machines, the submitted content is used to train LLMs, and they ran adverts for ICE the modern day brownshirts.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
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December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
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Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on all titles as part of The Verso End of Year Sale!
Announcing: The Verso End of Year Sale
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on all titles site-wide! Find all our new books here, browse through our End of Year Highlights and check out our 2025 reading list: The Year in 10 Books. ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on all titles as part of The Verso End of Year Sale!
My spirit animal? One day it could be a field mouse, the next day, a pine marten. Then I find a recent photo of a bird perched on a fencepost. Look at the pose it strikes, head cocked and simultaneous looking inquisitive and completely stupid. Bingo! Sums up the way I’ve handled this year I guess.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My spirit animal? One day it could be a field mouse, the next day, a pine marten. Then I find a recent photo of a bird perched on a fencepost. Look at the pose it strikes, head cocked and simultaneous looking inquisitive and completely stupid. Bingo! Sums up the way I’ve handled this year I guess.
Really enjoyed this week’s Disquiet Junto assignment. A blend of Omnichord samples, Markov algorithms, MaxMSP and Ableton. llllllll.co/t/disquiet-j...
Disquiet Junto Project 0726: Chord of Omnis
Background I downloaded the files from the web app’s creator so that I could build a sample pack in Ableton to trigger with MIDI from a MaxMSP patch. I’ve been developing some new Max patches in the ...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Really enjoyed this week’s Disquiet Junto assignment. A blend of Omnichord samples, Markov algorithms, MaxMSP and Ableton. llllllll.co/t/disquiet-j...
Sadly, the future has been postponed.
Here's my blog post about Microsoft's moonshot!!
ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...
And my blog post about Google's more complex greenwashing tactics!
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
And my data collection!
ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...
And my blog post about Google's more complex greenwashing tactics!
ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
And my data collection!
ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
The life and death of Microsoft’s Moonshot
Microsoft finally dropped its ‘climate moonshot’, overwhelmed by the anxiety of generating as much AI slop as it possibly can, no matter how much that helps the fossil fuel industry.
ketanjoshi.co
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Sadly, the future has been postponed.
Throwback about a month ago to possibly the most middle class + middle aged photo of me ever.
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Throwback about a month ago to possibly the most middle class + middle aged photo of me ever.
This morning: a new comment on this post. I find it remarkable (and a bit ridiculous) that this is one of two posts on my long running blog that consistently racks up hits/shares that far outweigh the read count of anything else on there.
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Ode to Colonnades
Noarlunga Centre – more commonly known as Colonnades – is a place that can only be etched in your memory if you’ve frequented it on a routine basis at some point in your life, or altern…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This morning: a new comment on this post. I find it remarkable (and a bit ridiculous) that this is one of two posts on my long running blog that consistently racks up hits/shares that far outweigh the read count of anything else on there.
tristanlouthrobins.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/o...
tristanlouthrobins.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/o...
Continuing transcription of the travel journal in Obsidian. Up to Day 3.5/31. I’m not doing this everyday; pretty much every Friday if I’ve got the energy/patience in the morning to re-read my scribbles and consider whether grammatical first aid should be administered or further detail is necessary.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Continuing transcription of the travel journal in Obsidian. Up to Day 3.5/31. I’m not doing this everyday; pretty much every Friday if I’ve got the energy/patience in the morning to re-read my scribbles and consider whether grammatical first aid should be administered or further detail is necessary.
On the one hand, it’s disappointing that we were a bit early for snow in the Cairngorms back early October, but then again the temperature was probably a bit more agreeable.
Cairn Toul and the Lairig Ghru today. #Cairngorms #snow
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
On the one hand, it’s disappointing that we were a bit early for snow in the Cairngorms back early October, but then again the temperature was probably a bit more agreeable.
One important thing that my trip OS did was it positively renewed my interest in ecology and assessing soundscapes. Despite being horrified by the SA algal bloom and reluctant to go near the ocean, I’ve just got to get on with it. These pics are from Lady Bay reef in 2021. Visiting again in 2 weeks.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
One important thing that my trip OS did was it positively renewed my interest in ecology and assessing soundscapes. Despite being horrified by the SA algal bloom and reluctant to go near the ocean, I’ve just got to get on with it. These pics are from Lady Bay reef in 2021. Visiting again in 2 weeks.
As end of year is reached on the power of an oily rag, I’m chipping away at some proper writing. It’s about my recent visit to Maryon Park in London, a film nerd pilgrimage of sorts. Amongst other themes, in search of the sound of two poplar trees that don’t exist any more (or did they ever exist?)
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
As end of year is reached on the power of an oily rag, I’m chipping away at some proper writing. It’s about my recent visit to Maryon Park in London, a film nerd pilgrimage of sorts. Amongst other themes, in search of the sound of two poplar trees that don’t exist any more (or did they ever exist?)
No sign of dead fish or decimated seagrass ecosystems at Lady Bay yesterday afternoon. Small mercies.
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
No sign of dead fish or decimated seagrass ecosystems at Lady Bay yesterday afternoon. Small mercies.
Junto Project 0725 for this week is live: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-j...
Disquiet Junto Project 0725: Rack It
This post went live at Disquiet – Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. (powers of automation willing) shortly after 12:10am Pacific Time on Thursday, N...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Junto Project 0725 for this week is live: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-j...
3 things that transcribing your recent travel journal will do: 1) reveal how acutely exhausted you were at times but; 2) reveal that you could still get poetic observations down into semi-cohesive form; 3) through reconsidering the structure of sentences, coax out adjacent observations from memory.
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
3 things that transcribing your recent travel journal will do: 1) reveal how acutely exhausted you were at times but; 2) reveal that you could still get poetic observations down into semi-cohesive form; 3) through reconsidering the structure of sentences, coax out adjacent observations from memory.
2025: Monster year. But a Fleurieu & KI Soundmap update is definitely coming in December. Let me just put these things over here first.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
2025: Monster year. But a Fleurieu & KI Soundmap update is definitely coming in December. Let me just put these things over here first.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I would upload some images from my recent travels here, but Bluesky’s image uploading appears to be broken?
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I would upload some images from my recent travels here, but Bluesky’s image uploading appears to be broken?
Positively green.
October 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Positively green.
Save the Internet, start a blog (again.)
September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Save the Internet, start a blog (again.)
Five weeks of long service leave - go, go, go. Cue this MF.
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Five weeks of long service leave - go, go, go. Cue this MF.