The Griffins also designed the layout of Leeton and Griffith, Australia.

Funny thing for people who know Canberra, their original design had a casino where the War Memorial now stands.

I'm keen to learn more about the Masonic influence, the compass and protractor shapes would explain a lot of the weird streets in inner Canberra and from what I've seen of the two Riverina towns.

You should look at http://www.glitchds.com/ for a clever application of the game of life

A mate of mine did something similar but had two computers bouncing an audio signal between decaying delays. The signal evolved, like a game of Chinese whispers, so it sounded totally different by the end.

Kinda like that Steve Reich piece with two tapes that are played at the same time but drift apart due to the mechanics of the player, producing interesting phasing sounds. Brian Eno raved about that.

G'day,

I wrote a song about how copyright limits music and recorded it as part of the RPM Challenge last month.

Today I've put the parts online under Creative Commons so anyone can remix, remaster, sample or dissect the track and spread the message that "this music that flows through me can flow through you too."

There are some interesting instruments in it too, like aeolian harp and glockenspiel and fretless bass: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=810851&content=music

Grab the parts and have a go

Is there nothing that Creative Commons can't do?!

Actually, this is kinda geeky but I wrote song about Creative Commons recently:

http://showcasejase.blogspot.com/2008/02/song-for-creative-commons.html

US$15,000 for three roos? You do know they're considered a pest by many farmers in Australia, don't you?

I could probably catch some for you...

AFTER I take boxing lessons:

http://shotwildlife.blogspot.com/2008/01/boxing-roos.html

Just been reading a bunch of essays from The Wire (collected in Undercurrents) and they outline a few different occult influences in 20th century audio, from the early interpretations of radio static as messages from beyond to people like Harry Smith.

BUT

The reason I'm posting is to give an Australian perspective on the idea of responding to places through music. Some aboriginal tribes share an idea of songlines, where music would be heard people alone in isolated areas.

AND

There's a top bloke called Alan Lamb who recorded telegraph poles outside Perth. Some of his tracks provided spooky noises in the horror flick Wolf Creek. His aeolian harp recordings are a really interesting example of a landscape soundscape.

If you're interested in seeing one in action, I've got a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4rBbMc59M and a bunch of recordings at http://www.soundclick.com/aeolianharp