Things have certainly been busy since last month! The new design for the Musicological Society Sydney Chapter website is now online, and receiving kind comments - I also took the opportunity to revamp the content, putting a full archive of issues of Articulation, the Chapter newsletter, online, and expanding the scope of the "Current" page to include not just performances, but any kind of pending event - calls for papers, conferences, plus the current issue of the newsletter. Plans for expansion are already underway with the acceptance of my suggestion of a page of links to members' websites. We've had a couple of people ask to be included in this, so watch out for revisions to the site to accommodate these links.

I've been doing a few tweaks to this site too, and have a few structural changes in mind to make the content easier to navigate and the pages a more respectable size. Audio samples are now online for five of my compositions, and cover graphics for most works published by Aubade are also on the Compositions page. I've also put the archive of web journals online, so if there was a link you saw & wanted to find again, you should be able to track it down.

Getting a piano last month has also spurred me on to compositional action - I'm working on a short piece for flute and piano, and am also back into researching my large-scale work-in-progress Congo, which has entailed listening to lots of loud music by composers such as Christopher Rouse, Stravinsky and Michael Nyman. If you haven't heard it, Rouse's percussion piece Ogoun Badagris (it's on the Wheels of Passion CD) comes with my highest recommendation. It's based on voodoo drumming and is truly amazing. If you haven't heard any Rouse at all - get out there and listen!

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