One of the first things I got into under lockdown was playing my tar, a frame drum, basically just a big hoop with a skin over it. But frame drums are one of the oldest types of drum on Earth - they appear across many cultures, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa, but also in Europe and North America. The tar has an incredible resonance, and rewards very fine fingering and a close ear. It's lots of fun to play, extremely expressive.

Next in the lockdown series, I moved on to a couple of experimental shots off my front balcony. I've recently had my 5Diii converted to have a full-spectrum sensor, so that I can shoot in infrared, and pair that capacity with a fish-eye lens that will enable me to shoot footage for fulldome planetarium projection, which I need to do for the Path 99 project. So this balcony experiment, conducted fairly early in the lockdown period, involved shooting with the lens on the widest setting, so it shoots a fully hemispheric image. I'm using a Kodak Wratten Filter cut small so it sits in the slot behind the lens, enabling me to cut out all wavelengths of light below around 600 nanometers. The result is a beautiful infrared image that highlights the health of vegetation and introduces a surreal and striking colour space.

For this session I started with an environmental recording - this is the night-time sound of North Creek, the huge tidal inlet in Ballina, where I live in Northern New South Wales. We can hear sea-birds nesting on the sand-bar, distant waves and occasional traffic. I spent awhile listening to this beautiful and lively world, then moved on to improvising on the tar.

I decided to use some of the lockdown days to experiment with new techniques of timelapse. So I setup a 360 degree camera on a selfie stick off my front balcony, and documented the world for a few hours. 360 degree footage is amazing, you never have to point the camera, you just re-orient everything in post - and even better, the software has crazy warping algorithms to distort the image.