I’m here because music is almost as much fun to think as it is to play. To be more expansive in exploring the ‘whys’ presupposes knowledge I’m not sure I have and ‘how’ seems less definitive it is less likely to end in false attributions and invites a story.

My earliest memories of music come from my parents record collection. Classical music (especially Beethoven), bushranger ballads, Nana Moussorgsky, Bert Kamfert and other stuff commonly found on the shelves of op shops.

By 20 I had already spent 6 months working in the American mid-west and my subsequent return to rural Australia was destined to short-lived. I moved to Melbourne where a series of dead-end jobs led me to seriously return to the question of what I might do with ‘my music’.

At college, I was intrigued by how and why music made people do what it did. What was meaningful about music, where do its meanings may lie, how might they be explored, and how could they be described.