One Hobart evening... a poem penned by Garton and Nerlich.

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Michael de Beer has passed away. He was 33. I don't know the circumstances of his death, I only know of his life, the little I knew of him... from his work with IGC and later directly with the APC.

Anriette, APC Executive Director, came across this quote from Michael:

I get very angry at systems of racism, sexism, and vilification of the poor. This comes out of my growing up in a family that worked against apartheid; my uncles were either imprisoned or expelled from South Africa, and my parents left before such could befall them and their children. I can see my values and anger in the choices I have made in my life what I have done, what I have not done. They are how I chose my college major, why I travel and work in dangerous places, why I devote many hours each week to political action and service, and my very identity as a person who is about working for social justice.

It speaks for many of us... at least many that I have met, know of, worked with, continue to do so and myself.

APC on Micheal.

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white flag burnin monday
oil slick pollutin tuesday
saturation wednesday
another frightful thursday
body crushin friday
border crossin saturday
another bloody sunday

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i had no idea who mike patton was until the vocalist in my recent project, son of science, started goin on about some vocalist he referred to as "the last of the great front men". yeh, right... ok... then a mate of mine in london sent me some tracks from a Fantamos album... a few months later, when going through quite a difficult emotional patch, i listened to those pieces and then listened to them again and them listened to them some more...

(via http://www.myspace.com/peepingtomispatton)

it'd been years since i'd bought CDs but there i was buying up every album patton had produced in recent years and gorged myself on this man's work as i had done so 20 or more years earlier on work by bowie, eno, fripp and so on... patton's latest project, peeping tom, is no exception.

after 10 years of making dark ambient music and tons of radio sound works i got back to writing songs and panning out arrangements of pieces that became the summary of all that had passed and all that was yet to be known. owe a lot to patton. for the urgency in particular.

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