Current Projects
Cantat Ergo Sumus
Cantat Ergo Sumus (It is singing [as in it is
raining], therefore, we are) combines my
interests in philosophy and music. I recently
received a grant from TORCH (The Oxford Research
Centre for the Humanities) at Oxford University
to develop this project with Oxford band
Zarathustra's Roundelay: A poem by 19th C philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche which appears in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Island: An amalgum of two poems (Of an Island and The Ruine of the Island) from Poems and Fancies by the 17th C philosopher Margaret Cavendish.
Of Shadow and Eccho:from Poems and Fancies by the 17th C philosopher
Brahma: A poem by 19th C 'Transcendentalist' philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine: A cover of a song by Bob Dylan from his 1967 album John Welsey Harding.
New Angel: Based on the ninth of the theses from 20th C philosopher Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" AKA "Theses on the Philosophy of History". The thesis is a commentary on the painting Angelus Novus by Paul Klee, which Benjamin owned.
Oh Redness of Blood: A setting of 'O rubor sanguinis' by 12th C mystic Hildegard von Bingen.
Foolishness: A song based on Sec 79 of The Book of the Lover and the Beloved by 13th C Catalan philosopher Ramon Llull.
Small Country: A song based on a passage toward the end of the Tao Te Ching, credited to the philosopher Laozi.