This was the theme of an artist’s residency in Masterton, New Zealand, and continues to develop. In it i combine improvisation, recorded sounds and my own songs, exploring what it means to be human in this time when human activity is affecting our planetary systems – climate, atmosphere, landscapes, and the delicate web of life […]
The Marches/Knighton Wild Choir is taking a break but will continue later this year. The Older Women’s Network in Sydney spent a great morning in February doing a Wild Choir workshop. No-one had done anything like it before and feedback at the end was totally positive. Sadly we could not fit in any more. I […]
Just to put things into perspective – in the long term..
A song about the incarceration industry – text mostly taken from corporate websites, and unfortunately is true
The Borderless project sprang from a belief – shared with many other improvising musicians – that music is not, as is so often stated, a universal language, but that through improvisation and listening we can learn to communicate and create new music that combines the forms and languages of different cultures. We wished to explore […]
The Heart of Wales 150th anniversary celebrations kicked off on March 23rd, with stalwart supporters travelling all the way from Shrewsbury to Swansea. Some of us went from Knighton to Llandrindod, the audience for the songs was great and appreciative, and there was a good conversation with guard John on the way back which gave […]
A call to get out and pick it up..so the poor albatross chicks don’t starve and we stop poisoning the seas as well as the earth… Plastic Plastic is a poison when it breaks down in the sea That isn’t good for animals including you and me So if you see some orphaned plastic […]
The oceans are warming – and acidifying – save the plankton! Save the Plankton Chorus Save the plankton, save the plankton in the sea Save the plankton, keep it floating free! Happy plankton need enough to eat But alas, they’re starting to feel the heat Overwhelmed by CO2 Poor old plankton – what can it […]
In a time when humans are causing countless other species to go extinct every day, when by our own actions we are destroying ourselves and the biosphere with which our being is intertwined, what is the function of art, and specifically music? Are we just ‘fiddling while Rome burns’? Singing funeral laments for ourselves and […]
There was time to think and reflect on life in general, and composing in particular; hence this blog. Reflections at the DAR residency in Lithuania The most wonderful thing about this residency (and there are several) is having the luxury of unfettered time and a free space. Living alone in a two floor cottage looking […]