Grow a cucumber from a seed and observe and notate its growth pattern, then when it has matured, assign the shape to a parameter in the music. Weave the music around the weave of the tendril.

The spiralling growth patterns of plant tendrils reframed as musical lines. Charles Darwin spent hours each day simply watching young cucumber plants grow from the pots on his windowsills, observing how they explored the world around them

The premiere of my work Dream Recorder (waking life version) at the New England Regional Art Museum as part of the symposium Towards the Multimodal Sensorium: Experience, Wellbeing and Creativity (which I also gave a talk at). So great to be in Armidale, 6 and 1/2 drive and totally worth it.

My art music video essay ‘What the River Doesn’t Say About Itself’ won the award for best short music film (musical interpretation) at the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO Festival URTIcanti in Bari, Italy.

Score layout redesign for a work back in 2015: Animal - for violin, ‘cello, percussion, keyboard, and choir with video score – 10′ [and video]. Premiered by Soundstream Collective and the Adelaide Philharmonic Choir. Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, University of South Australia.

ADSR Zine exhibition at Sydenham International. Congrats to ADSR who were nominated for Art Music Award for experimental music excellence. shorturl.at/iqbhR

My video-essay was inspired by Varda's l’imagination des matières, a cinematic technique in which personality traits correspond to the material world. In 'La Pointe Courte' the character trait clashes are shown through the opposition of objects such as wood and steel. shorturl.at/6fYAY

Here is a video-essay published in 2020. I wasn't able to promote it then because of covid. It explores an area I felt was lacking in contemporary art music, that being the lack of engagement with ‘somatic video notation’ or ‘video gestural notation’ shorturl.at/W7AQG

I developed a newfound obsession with keys. The intricate shape, styles, colours, and histories. The plethora of cuts, depths, and spacings, and how they resemble the patterns of waveforms, mountainous landscape horizons, or days filled with a multitude of tasks, deadlines, and rapidly changing...

My video-essay was published in the Journal of Embodied Research. A co-composition with mangroves and members of the music box project. See abstract: shorturl.at/Ewnki #experimentalmusic #soundart #videoart #academic #embodiment

The next Composer Series event will be on 20 July at Ashfield Library Wangal Country with the always brilliant Elizabeth Jigalin with her discussion on 'Composing the City'. Please come along to what will be a rememberable event. shorturl.at/og6bI

World premiere of ‘Supralateral’ by Vertixe Sonora Ensemble at the Alte Schmiede, in Vienna, June 21, 2024, for bayan accordion, microtonal e-guitar, baritone sax, video, lo-fi electronics, and a starling bird whistle.