Browsing Month 'April, 2009'

Excerpts from a video and sound installation originally conceived for CPU at ESC im Labor, Graz, Austria, October 2008. The prototype consists of a close analysis of three faces of indigenous people from Sarawak… two from the Kenyan community who had been relocated from where the Bakun Dam is being built and a Bidayuh woman [...]

As a young man, Ballard influenced my thinking of the world we inhabit more than any other author. The Drowned World still inhabits part of my consciousness and I reflect on it when ever I find myself in the forests of Borneo or the savannas of southern Africa. A classic portrait of Mr Ballard, reminding [...]

Border Song is largely inspired by my father’s early life, growing up in Eastern Europe through WW II, loss of youth, seeking out his White Russian mother… It’s an epic tale to be sure! Border Song began its journey to your ears in the mid-1990′s during which time I was writing the spoken word opera, Auslaender. [...]

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