From the debut performance of TONG TANA, a live version of Free of Sin, cobbled together with stills, found images, video portraits of Penan from Long Kerong, Sarawak and video shot at the concert.
Début performance of TONG TANA – cabaret as structured improvisations composed and performed by Andrew Garton and Benguela with visualist, Andrew Parker. Friday 31 July, 8pm, Alliance Francaise, 550 Loop St, Cape Town. R50, bring your digital cameras. Début performance of a unique collaboration with legendary South African sound illusionists, Benguela and Australian born, nomadic [...]
Redrafted from an email sent to friends and family, written from a plane in the air and a bungalow in Johannesburg. I’m around 11,800 feet in the air on a flight from Buenos Aires to Johannesburg. It’s Thursday, 2nd of July and it’s a beautiful morning up here above cloud cover. It’s pink and a [...]
One of several video scratch pads I’ve started to make available on Youtube. Each are bits of songs or instrumentals I’m working on, some on the go for nearly a year. It’s taken me that long to decide to do this as they also chart my re-emergence as composer / musician - something I’d avoided [...]
I arrived in Buenos Aires just over a week ago to the 75th bed I’ve slept in in two years. I’d been in Kuching working on the next instalment of my video installation piece, NOTHINGKNOWN, and the micro-docs series, Sarawak Gone. More on the latter in the coming months. It was the first face to [...]
Kind of rough sampling of my gig at the Ruai BAR in Kuching. I’d be amazed if anyone if anyone makes out what’s going on… but glad to have the vid… thanks Pang After 16 years of visiting Sarawak this was my first gig in Malaysia… Saturday, 13 June 2009. Did the lot - projections, [...]
Performance for solo voice, oral microphone, hard curve saturation and open licensed visuals. Performed for the launch of the book “Re-inventing Radio”, a Kunstradio initiative, at the The MAK, Vienna, October 2008. GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure on public spectrum, [...]
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. [...]
I returned to Australia from -8 and snow to a blistering 47 at tops, sitting beneath a tree in Reservoir, an outer northern suburb of Melbourne, watching the sky hung low, clouds masked by haze from the fires that burnt at Kingslake, St Andrews and too many more that would be remembered today, this day [...]
YIDO, pronounced Why I do, is a draft manifesto on the value and making of art in the 21st century by a 20th century nomad weaning myself off the net and much more besides. Help me write this manifesto. Add your thoughts, comments, grievances by creating an account on my wiki. When adding comments, I wouldn’t [...]
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