Produced Work: Zmey Lipa, Kammerklang Vox

Title: Zmey Lipa: In the Cave and On the Hill
Genre: Musical composition/written word collaboration
Composer: Damian Griffin
Summary: Two pieces taken characters and situations from my novel-in-progress, The Dragon of the Linden Tree.
Accompanying artwork: Guardian of the Linden Tree by Tiffany
Company: Kammerklang
Performed at: Kammerklang Vox, May 2010.



About:
In early 2010 Kammerklang Artistic Director Cameron Lam asked me if would be interested in writing a piece of prose to be set to music by a younger Australian composer. The opportunity sounded exciting, and so I said yes, and was exceedingly lucky to be paired with a high school friend, Damian Griffin. After some talk, we decided that I would write two short pieces based on my novel in progress The Dragon of the Linden Tree. (If your curious to read about Damian's creative process and how he approached the work, read here.)

A CD and DVD of the concert are available for purchase as well. See the Kammerklang Store for details.

I'll stop posting in a moment

With the publication of 'Red by the River' imminent, I decided it was high time that I gave my blog a little bit of a scrub and actually make it look vaguely like a writer's blog, rather than just a place where I ramble on about things occasionally.

So, there has been a change in the colour scheme, a shiny new default icon (how I love Stoppard), links on the sidebar to make navigation easier (for me as much as a visitor), and a few master posts as well. It felt slightly strange - it's like I'm putting myself out there somehow, and it feels a little like bragging about nothing too much (not like I've actually published the novel or anything) but I think getting the set-up right now is probably a good way to go, and can be built on later.

In other news, went to a great Halloween party last night (the hosts decorated the place brilliantly and the food was delish, and have learnt a nifty way of making edible eyeballs), and got through another Ladies' Step Dancing class (teacher said my pivot turns were looking very nice, so yay! Now just for more turnout and consistently pointing toes...as usual.)