Here's SANS at WOMAD onstage in the Arboretum. A video clip will be along in a while which should capture some of the atmosphere of a great gig. A couple of days later we played at Petworth Festival on a very warm July evening: luckily, a couple of devoted fans at the front of the stage kept the band cool...
SANS returns to the south of England and Wales in early October: meanwhile, I'm working on a couple of new pieces involving (as a starting point) bats and sparrows.
And something for Christmas. Not long now...
It's from the latest FunMusic for Little Kids Christmas-themed project: but this tune started out as a song from Mr Garman of Forest Green in Surrey, heard and noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams. You can now see his MS notebooks and a wealth of other material at the online collection of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. A great resource!
Some music I wrote to go with artist Dianne Fogwell's work has surfaced in a revenant audio guide from How I entered there I cannot truly say: an exhibition at the State Library of Victoria a few years ago. Kern features a swarm of bees at the 'flying around in circles' stage: it was a mild-mannered swarm so the recording went uneventfully...