Back in Australia, working on some new projects: spent a few days with Moya Simpson and director John Bolton in a creative development period which will lead to a one-woman show from Moya. Sandy Evans was also taking part, and I'll be meeting up with her again in Brisbane for Fundamental Sounds: a multimedia concert featuring Sandy's saxes, William Barton's didge, Jon Jones' percussion, and soundscapes from myself, along with dance from Saman plus text and images from Keith Armstrong and Inkahoots. That's on December 2nd at the Conservatorium Theatre on Brisbane's South Bank. The Pocket Score Company will be singing at The Carriage Works in Redfern on November 23rd: part of the new Musica Viva Ménage series. There'll be live electronics from Jen Sochackyj and images from Adam Dewhirst.
More from the PSC on December 16th, when we'll be presenting Spanish Music for Advent at All Saints' Church, Ainslie, ACT, featuring the delicious Missa de Beata Virgine from Cristóbal de Morales plus late mediaeval music from the Red Book of Montserrat. Kickoff at 4 o'clock.
Clarity Clarinet Quartet is playing Starling at BMW Edge, Federation Square, on Saturday November 17th, 8pm: it's the Melbourne launch of the CD Second Door on the Left (bookings 1300 723 253)
And on November 29th at 6pm the new National Folk Fellowship is announced at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. I'll be talking about the work I made as this year's Fellow, and giving a brief performance in glorious surround sound...
The appallingly Celtic Cassidy's Ceili had a fine old time of it at the Beechworth Celtic Festival last weekend. More kilts per kilometer than I've seen hitherto. There is apparently a Jones tartan, a muted and tasteful little number in shades of blue and green; so we of the Welsh rhythm section could have run up some fetching outfits for the occasion, had we but known. And there's something engagingly marsupial about a sporran or sgrepan... a pouch in either language...