A major preoccupation of my work has been environmental sound but more specifically the construction of a personal matrix within which this preoccupation might be placed. A fascination
with physical nature is only one of the coordinates in this multidimensional matrix. The others expose themselves in less comfortable ways and begin to take on the trappings of myth. I do not assert a scientific view or competency but only borrow from the current orthodoxy what seems reasonable grist for the construction of heretical metaphor.

While posed between animal and angel, instinct and intuition, we look back with either cloying affection or rational disdain. The devas leave small clues to entice us but in the anxious face of potential holocaust the message is obscure and our future clouded. I have long sensed that there is a profound connection between the outer environment as system and the inner system of mind (and its coadjutant language) which bridges that past and future. My particular compulsion has been to question how that bridge might be made manifest through music. As Systems Theory begins to look at traditional music for insight into the systemic modelling of phenomena, music as a discipline has moved into the domain of cognitive interactions: the positing of participatory actions which expand the dimensions of mind. What I propose is the creation of actions which reinforce the inclusiveness of that larger systemic mentality resident in the interactions of environment and consciousness. This, of course, borders on investigation into the origins of consciousness and therefore the origins of language. Once again I acknowledge a void of scientific methodology since what I am looking for is a blend of speculation and experience which remains unabashedly subjective.

When the Linguistic Society of Paris barred further discussion on the origins of language at the turn of this century, positivism reigned supreme. Rejection of such quaint speculation as the... 

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