For the past year I have been working on a solo project - nurturing, feeding, catalysing, surgicaly stitching lab-style, cutting and pasting, spontaneously birthing a series of songs. Some of these songs have waited in their preserving jars for years: whole creatures waiting to be animated. Others were just sketches, strong motifs and vocal lines needing to be fleshed out. Still others arrived in a burst - whole and fierce and alive. For the past two months I've been working

Without having planned it to be so, I seem to have arranged for all of my current projects to finish on the same week. Oops. One of the big ones - a collaborative soundwalk as part of the Bogong Electric Festival with Lizzie Pogson - was presented and experienced this week along the dam wall of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme. I desperately wanted to be there when the punters plugged in and walked to the sonic breadcrumb trail of Lizzie's sounds and my voice. Nevermind. I ge