Some great SANS gigs in Europe this year: here's a longish bit (at least two cups of teasworth) from our concert at Croatia's EthnoAmbient Festival:

Glyn Phillips has posted a detailed review of our Home Festival gig at Dartington on his site worldmusic.co.uk .

Blue Bear Studio did some more recording for John Couch: guitar duos this time in the company of Matthew Marshall. The recording of the new Freyja's Rain project was finished just in time for the transit of Venus, ready for mixing in London along with songs from The Guitar Cases.

And while in London, I spent an enjoyable four days doing the MUSARC Field Studies course: dropping hydrophones in the Thames, contact-miking the Wobbly Bridge and and recording the hidden voices of parking ticket machines... Thanks to Lee Patterson and the rest of the Field Studies team and participants!

Since I've been back in Canberra I've been taking part in a couple of projects at The Street Theatre: sound design and music for The Burning Heart, which is working with Canberran artists on their experiences of the fires of ten years ago; while The Pocket Score Company is teaming up with the Canberra Academy of Dramatic Art for a multi-layered Shakespearian show: The Polyphonic Bard. There'll be forty layers of PSC in our karaoke version of Thomas Tallis' greatest (and densest) hit Spem in alium...