About Me
upright bass, ukelin, guqin, keyboard dulcimer, zithers, cymbals, triangles, bass hitting the floor, transients, surbahar
an agglomeration of appropriated Musical Instruments turned Sound Implements, improvisation of necessity.veganReed warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceus
The reed warbler is a plain unstreaked warbler. It is warm brown above and buff coloured underneath. It is a summer visitor to breed in the UK, with the largest concentrations in East Anglia and along the south coast – there are relatively few breeding in Scotland and Ireland. It winters in Africa.Where does it live?Breeding
Reedbeds in lowland areas; also among tall vegetation in drier places such as willowherb and arable crops.Wintering
AfricaPassage
Can turn up almost anywhere, including orchards, gardens and in crops, and often some way from water.Where to see it
In the summer, can be looked for in reedbeds in lowland central and southern England and Wales – it is rarer elsewhere. Sings from within the reedbed rather than from a perch, so often heard rather than seen.What does it eat?
Insects; berries in autumnWhat does it sound like?
Its song is a noisy, unmusical, repetitive chattering and churring, more even and less varied than the sedge warbler's song.When to see it
Mid-April to early October.
'Will the American genius for perverting a spark of individual imagination into a commodity for nationwide distribution permit us ever to hope for a signifigant evolution in American music?' - Harry Partch
'The normal sound is human music; the better sound is the sound of nature; and the best sound is no sound.' - Lao Tse 'Tools that are no good require more skill.' - John CageINTERESTS: resonators, playing ghatam, cello and ukelin, upright bass and guqin at the same time- fairly successfully now, taking long walks with Laurie, reading with my vegan cat Cabecada Ichibana sitting on my chest and vegan kitten Little Sprite Caruso biting my chest, hands, feet and nose, cooking foods that are the wrong color, playing surbahar and trying to convince myself not to add more strings to it, unicyling, bottle cutting, adding extra things to objects and instruments and cutting off extra parts of objects and instruments, making wind chimes, inverted pendulums, foraging, measuring noses, making things more difficult, glorifying ADHD. taking care of my plants- I have about 45 now, tinkeringINFLUENCES: Ray Jardine, Cecil Taylor, Harry Partch, Phil Cohran, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Krishnamurti, Z.M.Dagar, Tilahun Gessesse, Roland Kirk, Milford Graves, Thai Elephant Orchestra, Nikhil Banerjee, Gopal Shankar Misra, Talip Özkan, Mahmoud Gania
