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  • Three Songs For a City

    Three Songs For a City

    In late 1997 we were commissioned by Mark Dunbar, the conductor of Canto Coro to write a piece for their 1998 season to accompany Canto Para Una Semilla, a work by the Chilean composer Luis Advis, se ...

  • The Music Shift: The Hat Factory

    The Music Shift: The Hat Factory

    Mountcastles is a smaller workplace, located at the time of the project in the Brisbane suburb of Fairfield, engaged in making a wide variety of hats, including fashion, uniform and protective hats. ...

  • The Music Shift: The Abattoir

    The Music Shift: The Abattoir

    QMEAT was a government owned abattoir which has been operating for over ninety years. (Until 1947 it had been owned by a US company.) The workforce had a proud history of militant unionism, being mem ...

  • The Music Shift: The Lock Factory

    The Music Shift: The Lock Factory

    Whitco was a large manufacturer of locks and fittings for doors and windows. The assembly workers are members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The workforce included a number of older w ...

  • Cuba 1996

    Cuba 1996

    Our second trip to Cuba was from August to October 1996 where we had a fantastic time, learning, playing, meeting musicians. We had music lessons were with twin brothers, Silvio and Vidal Tarín from ...

  • Cuba 1985-86

    Cuba 1985-86

    Our first visit to Cuba was over December 1985 and January 1986. It was the final leg of a tour throughout Latin America, seeing and studying as much music as we could in the major cities, Buenos Air ...