Recent Projects

Wrote & recorded Stella: Black & White, a text-music collaboration with the Canadian electronic music composer John Mills-Cockell. The piece was performed in 1995 at the Writer's Cabaret as part of the Vancouver Writer's festival, 1995.

Recorded and performed a cycle of poems and music with the Canadian flautist and recording artist Robert Bick, entitled Lizard Man, 1996.

Recorded and performed a music-text collaboration with local electronic musician Thomas Cournoyer entitled Mind Fields, Parts 1 & 2. 1996.

Performed with The Three Poets, an improvising performance trio (voice, Blake Parker -- guitar, Paul Landsberg – percussion, Steven Parish). Many different performances, including a workshop at the Selkirk College Music Program, performances at the Samm iz Dat gallery and a live broadcast for Kootenay Co-Op Radio, 1997 - 2002.

Performance with Joanna DeSouza (formerly Das), the Toronto Kathak Dancer, of a long poem entitled “X-Ray Animals” at the Premiere Dance Theatre at Harbourfront in Toronto, Sept. 1997.

Performance with Joanna DeSouza at the Toronto Dance Fringe Festival at Buddy’s in Bad Times. In this collaborative work Joanna Das & myself worked with Ritesh Das of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble, a flamenco guitarist, and Eric Parker playing serangi, 1998.

Numerous readings at various venues including the Samm iz Dat gallery, the Station Manor Cafe, the Centennial Art Gallery, Nelson StreetFest, the David Thompson University Centre, Glacier Gourmet, The Fluid Lounge etc. Several of these have been shown on local community television, 1998 - 2002.

Completed a full length screenplay entitled Drop Dead Scene in collaboration with the Canadian song writer and recording artist Colin (Jude) Davison. This project includes a CD of recorded music by the fictional band which is the subject of the screenplay. We are currently working on a web site loosely based upon the “Drop Dead Scene” screenplay. This work is understood as an initial exploration of the creative possibilities of the web, 1998-99.

Completed an hour long pilot radio show featuring music and spoken word for a proposed co-op radio station in Nelson. Went on to host four live shows featuring spoken word for Kootenay Co-Op Radio, 1998-99.

Performed and recorded a major mixed media piece entitled Wireless Bodies in collaboration with video artist Ruby Truly and Howard Bearham of Data Zoo. The work was performed at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna on March 2, ’99. It included improvised computer graphics, narrative poetry and live as well as pre-recorded video images. Conceptually, the work addressed the predicament of the human body, trapped as it so often is, in the domain of commercial media, 1999.

Performed a version of Wireless Bodies in Vancouver, Oct. 26, ’99 at the Havana Gallery on Commercial drive as part of the Live at the End of the Century Performance Art festival in Vancouver. For this performance we (myself, Howard Bearham & Ruby Truly) worked with the Canadian electronic music composer and performer, John Mills-Cockell, 1999.

Wrote a screenplay entitled Slow Resurrection: The Life and Times of Leland Frank in collaboration with Colin (Jude) Davison. It is about a country and western singer in the year 2033. In the screenplay, we explore the themes of Apocalypse, the nature of dreams and their interpretation in a society devastated by a deadly infectious plague. A CD of Leland Frank’s songs has been recorded, 1999.

Hosted a half/hour radio program entitled simply “Bedtime Stories” on Kootenay Co-Op Radio on which I read & discussed fairy tales, 1999-2002.

A remixed track from the 3Poets on Kootenay Co-op Radio celebration of the Millenium CD, 2000.

3Poets CD in the works.

Toured the live multi-media performance piece Slow Resurrection: the Life & Times of Leland Frank with funding from the Columbia Basin Trust. The show included self-produced video, music, poetry and theatrical elements, May & June, 2000.

Performed “X-Ray Animals” with Joanna Das at her show entitled Joanna Das & Friends at the Du Maurier Theatre Centre, Harbourfront  Centre, Toronto, 2000.

I am in the process of editing a video of Slow Resurrection: The Life and Times of Leland Frank. The video footage used in the live multi-media presentation is being mixed with video footage of the live show.  The finished video will be 1 and ½ hours long and include a digitally recorded sound-track, 2001-02.

Invited to be an artist in residence (with Joanna Das) at the three week interdisciplinary project entitled Across Oceans at Home in June of 2001 at York University in Toronto. The festival was hosted by the dancer Maxine Heppner. Workshopped new material with Joanna Das and participated in various workshops, lectures  & symposia pertaining to collaborative process.

Performed with the Toronto Tabla Ensemble in Nelson when they were touring the West, 2001.

Conceived, staged & performed a two act show in Nelson with the 3Poets & video artist Howard Bearham. The show was entitled: Magic Stories, Beats & Wire Music, Nov. 30, 2001.

Working on a short video piece in collaboration with Joanna Das based around her dance & a story drawing upon fairy tale imagery. Original footage was shot at the Across Oceans at Home Festival, 2002.

Re-wrote & performed two shows (with Colin/Jude Davison) of The Life & Times of Leland Frank at the PerforMarch Festival of Performing Arts in Nelson in Mid March 2002. I also performed twice with the 3 Poets ensemble at this same festival.

Published Reptiles at the Movies, a book of performance poems as an issue of Rift Magazine, 2003.

Writer in Residence at the Across Oceans at Home Festival, Toronto. Festival hosted by the dancer Maxine Heppner. Canada Council travel grant from the Inter-Arts Program, 2002.

Edited a video version of the short Leland Frank Show. Produced a CD of the sound track.

The Cyborg Projects. During the time of my cancer treatment and convalescence I developed a number of texts concerned with what cyborg metaphor. The first, Green River is a fairy story set in the future about a young man’s journey towards self knowledge. The second, The Roy King Story concerns a cyborg who has fallen on hard times. 

Composed lyrics for CD Concerto of Deliverance by Canadian electronic music composer John Mills-Cockell. CD released in 2003.

Developing the Fairy Story based upon the Green River tale for a multi-media performance and video with my daughter the singer Eva Tree, 2005.

I am currently engaged in an extensive retrospective recording project called the Terminal City Project at the recording studio of Jude (aka Colin Davison) which will produce a number CDs of my earlier work. Several of these will be produced as short experimental videos.

I am currently working with an editor to prepare a number of earlier manuscripts for publication.