"Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages
and ciphers that all have their corresponding keys - have their own grammar and syntax ;
and thus the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest."
Thomas De Quincey
"After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical
technologies, the Western world is imploding. During the mechanical ages we had
extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric
technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global
embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.
Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological
simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be
collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we
have already extended our senses and our nerves by the various media."
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media (1964)
"When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a
Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell !
Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish !"
Alexander Dumas, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 1844
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
June 2008
'Stairs to the Midnight City' - music now available from the Digital Store -
Selected excerpts from the complete production are being added throughout 2008-09
Check the Digitalstore and Audiogallery for regular updates
June 2008
'Stairs to the Midnight City' is an evolving online audio-visual structure scheduled for completion in late 2009.
A large scale work in 4 acts, the piece spans live & improvised structures, electro-acoustic and studio-based compositions,
and a chaotic plethora of contemporary forms, styles and techniques.
New music and media will be added to the site as the project grows and evolves.
The addition of new artists & collaborators to the project will highlight the diversity of forms and processes
of this ongoing conception.
Music is currently available to preview and purchase from the site as high quality WAV and MP4 audio files.
The 4 Acts will be available as individual MP4 albums - beginning early 2009.
A special DVD of Stairs to the Midnight City, including live performances and specially commissioned visual,
filmic and transmedia materials, will be prepared at the work's completion.
July 2007
TRANSTEMPORAL EMPIRES 2CD + Downloads Now Available
Transtemporal Empires is a new experimental electro-acoustic work, commissioned with the assistance of the
Australia Council for the Arts. A 16-track 2-CD version is now available now from the webstore and the digital store.
Project Press Release :
The audio object article TRANSTEMPORAL EMPIRES contains the following discrete and indiscrete object-elements :
entropied spherical implosions
dub and modified enviroments
hyperdimensional acoustic re-fractions
modal transparencies and reflections
a fulcrum of equidistant dodecaphony
the multiplication and extension of homophony into space
quantum-aesthetic dilemnas
an undersea orchestra
rehabilitated meta-acousticians testing sand particles from the beach at eternity
interstellar emotional migrations
mixed media messages
the virtual hokum baroque ensemble
disembodied rhythmic dissension "
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
June '07
Download a free excerpt (03min53sec) from the classic electro-organic minimalist excursion
'MUSIK FOR 10 PIANOS' (2005) >>>> Click here for the MP4
