ME_BIO

COMPOSER/AND/OR/SOUND ARTIST/INTERESTED IN WORDS (NOT FOR THEIR OWN SAKE)/SOUNDS/SACRED & PROFANE/TENSIONS/POLITICAL/SPACE & ACCOMPANYING/VISCERAL SHUDDERS/IMMERSION/RITUAL

CLASS/POVERTY/POST-MARXISM/NEW MATERIALISM/IDENTITY OF LOW-SES PEOPLE/LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SUCH PEOPLE/CAN THE SUBALTERNS SING?/INTERSECTIONALITY/NON-ARTISTS/WORKERS

COLLABORATION AND OPEN FORMS/EXPATIATING PERSONAL TRAUMA/INTERNAL LANDSCAPES/ AND ‘PERCEPTIONS’ OF ALIENATION


PARTICULARLY DUE TO THE FACT:

 HAVING A FOOT IN THE WORKING/UNDER CLASS

AND CONSTANTLY TRIPPING OVER ASPIRATIONS/ATTEMPTS AT MOBILITY
DROWNING IN A CLOTTED SEA OF CULTURAL CAPITAL

& NEPOTISM AND GOOD DICTION/GRAMMAR+ NO UPWARD INFLECTIONS

AT THE END OF EVERY SENTENCE = HOW STRANGE IT IS NOT TO PERPETUALLY DOUBT ONE’S ONTOLOGY?


SHIT.


I’VE BECOME PRETENTIOUS AGAIN - SO YOU WILL THINK I AM SMART AND CAPABLE


FORMATIVE SONIC EXPERIENCES: INCLUDE PUNK/BOB MARLEY/ACDC/METALLICA/EMINEM/NINA SIMONE/HEAVY METAL/RELIGIOUS MUSIC/WILLIAM BLAKE/ GIL SCOTT HERON/BEETHOVEN/BACH/ROWLAND S HOWARD/PJ HARVEY/NICK CAVE/KARNATIC/PLAIN CHANT

EDUCATION: ONCE I HAD A MYSTERY MARK IN THE HSC (A SALLOW, YELLOW SHEET)


NOW I HAVE A B.MUS HONOURS (FIRST CLASS) & FACULTY MEDAL FROM UON


I AM WORKING ON WORKS THAT CAN BE PERFORMED BY AMATEURS/ALLOW IMPROVISATION/IMMERSE/SONIC METAPHORS/AND ARRANGED PUBLICLY TO ACTIVATE SPACES/EXPOSE POLITICAL WEAK SPOTS & CONTRADICTIONS/ WHO OWNS THE POWER (INCLUDING ME)? IN SOCIETY, ACADEMIA, THE ARTS. NOT A FAN OF NEO-LIBERALISM OR NETWORKING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE. I LIKE: MUTUAL AID + ALTRUISM


SACREDNESS IS ALSO FUCKING IMPORTANT.
‘MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM’

DESPITE A CATHOLIC UPBRINGING; MUSTY/MOLDY/AFTER SHAVED & PERFUMED MASSES

I FOUND IT IN A STOLEN GUITAR/NANNA’S OLD PIANO/
TCHAIKOVSKY BOOMED THROUGH AN UPTURNED SPEAKER ON THE FLOOR WHEN I WAS 6

TO BLOCK OUT THE SOUND OF THE NEIGHBOR'S ANGER


A STORY I WILL PROBABLY LET YOU KNOW OF LATER