Supported by the Strathnairn Arts Association (ACT), composed, filmed and recorded on site.

1.       New Shoes:  grasslands in this region are important ecosystems and home to more kangaroos than I have seen in a long time, but they are also a love of mine – the enormous variety of colours and the constant shifts in movement are something I adore.  I was immediately struck by the suburban sprawl around the site and the destruction of the grasslands in vast quantities.  The juxtaposition of the shiny and new with the old and “empty”; the truism that new shoes are always uncomfortable until they are worn in; these are explored along with the things we forget while all the changes are taking place.

2.        Hum:  situated near the convergence of a vast network of overhead cables, the cabin is less than a kilometre away from Canberra Substation.  At night when the wind dies and the birds and insects hush for a brief moment, there is an ever-present hum from the wires and the substation.  Underneath single posts, recorded by my little field microphone, the clear pitch can be heard of something approximating the first string of the guitar.  Closer to the substation, which closes out the track, the hum is multi-pitched and very loud.  I feel the hum, I hear the hum, I see the hum everywhere.

3.       Rift on Rift:  this place is more brutal than I remember, the wind, the savage changes in temperature, the ferocity of the storms, the crushing beauty of the sunsets.  Rawness exists here.  The simplest of all the musical tracks, four layers only, simple and reverent.

4.       Fragment 36:  The gorgeous illuminated stump in the video lies on the property of the Strathnairn Arts Association.  But, well, sometimes the illumination fails.  Then what to do?  Is Songs gift Best?

My Mind is Divided (2025):

Interactions between layers of sound, visual cues and accidental occurrences.

My Mind is Divided (2025) grew out of a curiosity to explore interactive responses between visual imagery and musical cues.  Unlike many of the works I have created as a site-specific response to a location during a residency, this was never intended to be adaptable to a live performance, but instead serve as an exploration of the possibilities of layers of music and spoken word (tracks) - up to nine simultaneous layers - that can be brought in and out in response to movements and images.  Because this is a video and a fixed realization of the possibilities of the layers, the musical interactions are prioritized, however many of the sounds on the tracks were recorded with the guitar or the voice, as it is a noisy place.  I began by investigating to see if a pure sound were possible, without the pervasive roar of traffic or airlines but it was not.  The bird and frog life around the cabin was also vibrant, intense and ever-present, and are simply incorporated into each track.  There are also layers that are simply field recordings of insects, frogs and birds as an ambient underpinning to all of the other recorded layers over the top.