FIRE

THEY CALL THIS A WEDDING

THEY CALL THIS A WEDDING but I call it the clanking of gears everyone is looking up as though a smell of burning has just appeared in the cabin of an airplane shortly before takeoff, as the engines… Read More

The Unbearable Smell of the Witch

Rooting through my belongings in search of something to gnaw upon, I came across the only remaining copy of my 1997 single The Unbearable Smell of the Witch, which would have been released and probably would have conquered… Read More

The Grentvoc

He called it a “Grentvoc”. I was perplexed, excited and hungry when I looked at it, but it wasn’t for eating. At least, it didn’t seem to be. It shimmered and rotated and those are not qualities I… Read More

Duet for Tape Sines

This out-take from the recordings of my upcoming opus was performed simultaneously on two humming tape-decks, a ballet of sound that I attempted to take commercial at venues such as Sydney’s distinctive “Opera” house. I found the commissioning… Read More

DRUM

Crow

From the Vok Archives: Toby’s Snare Drum

During the 1980s, I wrote a weekly article for Sound Upon Sound magazine in which I detailed methods for construction of musical instruments that I had personally invented. My archives were destroyed in 1996 (due to flooding), as… Read More

TOBY

Darkness

At the top of the stairs, there is a door. It is my door. Behind the door lies a room so dark that no light can illuminate it. I tried, with a candle, and then with two candles,… Read More