Discography

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Sonification Somnians

Sonification Somnians is my debut solo piano collection. Released in 2025, it represents many years of live and improvised piano music, including music for the funeral of a friend, Kay Bushnell, and a one hour impro with birds for longer meditation. The material has been used in films and live performances.

Seven Breaths

This song is part of my poetry and performance project. On this track, Richard Lawson performs the vocals for my composition in a multilayered track. The full project is still in development and will become an albume in time, using the same methods of non-notated scoring. I used a texta drawing in place of conventional notation.

Honey - Valentines Day

This was my first recording experience, and I joined Richard Lawson with Dave Sparks, Erin Kelly, Mick Elderfield and Josh Drummer.

A couple of my songs made it onto the album, particularly an improvised version of Richard Lawson’s title track Valentine’s Day which Mick Elderfield and I put down in one take. I used Dave’s Fender Rhodes. Then Dave and I did an impro on my own track, You’ve Changed, which I wrote for our singer at the time. It’s about a conversation between a river and its bank, the water saying to the land, that things have changed so much the water no longer knows where to go. I wrote it after finding out that the Cudgegong River at Mudgee had been diverted around the local coal mines. I always loved swimming at The Drip, where there are cave paintings by Brett Whitely. No doubt many other people have painted there over millennia - the gorges are a welcome respite to the heat of the Central West, but it only took a short time for people to work out how to send it somewhere else.

Dave laid down e-bow over my Yamaha keys.

Sharon Twiss laid down a stunning vocal on My Time, one of Richard’s classic songs.

Honey - Blessed Bee

This is the second album in the Honey project. Mick Elderfield joined us again and I laid down the vocals and phat keys on Richard’s Healing Hands, as well as the vocal version of You’ve Changed, which on the first album was instrumental. There’s some really big moments in this re-recording of Richard’s song, Girl Up Country as well. Thomas Hodson joined us to record a gypsy swing version of Never Make You Cry. Richard and I toured this material around the Central West and the Far South Coast, playing many festivals and events. Some of my guitar work appears, including work I recorded using broken guitars to teach my students that the music is in YOU, not in the instrument. Na Na Song I wrote and recorded for my brother, Mark, in the days after he died, which was seriously hard to do. I wrote Safe Passage as a soundscape to help him cross over. I still miss him every day. Rich laid down a vocal on Halfway Home, which we wrote together in the hallway of his farm house in Gulgong when we first met. That track became an audience favourite, especially for our dear friend Uschi :-)

How To Read A City, Your Place of Last Resort

This song cycle for string quartet was written by punk rock drummer Richard Lawson and performed by Acacia Quartet. Rich has no classical training and doesn’t read music. So I took on the role of artistic director, a role which carried forward from the early demos and scores, right through to our debut performace of the work as a collective collaboration at Four Winds in 2025. By this stage, my short poetry collection of the same name had been developed and the work became a full production, including a film I cut for the production, the poetry performances and the string quartet. For the first time, Rich sat in the audience and listended to others bringing together his music, without performing. Along the way, we road-tested the project at Wollongong Botanic Gardens, Westwords Parramatta, River Rock at Bermagui, and Buck Mulligan’s Whisky and Poetry bar in Melbourne. Incidentals and tempo direction in the score uses terms from the poetry, including things like, “a chin led sweep”. Pre orders of the poetry collection will soon be available from the 5 Islands Press website. We were chuffed when the album made into the ABC ClassicFM artmusic playlist and Richard made it into the A-Z of Australian composers 2025 - most likely the only punk rock drummer ever to have achieved this :-)