Intro/tattoo

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way

intro/tattoo

Some Kinda Way: part 1 (without)
By Connor D'Netto

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 1 (without)

Some Kinda Way: part 3 (through)

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 3 (through)

Some Kinda Way: part 2 (over)

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Some Kinda Way: part 2 (over)

outro/piercing

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

outro/piercing

interlude/nails

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

interlude/nails

Feeling More Like

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Shannon Luk (viola da gamba)

Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Feeling More Like

Excerpts from Wire and Pine (2025).

Wire and Pine pays tribute to the small, homemade Celtic harp that was fashioned, without any plan or blueprint, by my grandfather. Guided only by his intuition and knack for woodworking, he created an instrument that fostered my love of harp folk music and ultimately set me on my future career path (albeit in an indirect way).

Made from the materials he had to hand - soft pine wood and fishing wire – the instrument can no longer be tuned; the hard metal tuning pegs (read: washers and bolts) having sunk into the pale wood. However, its musical life has taken on a new dimension in Wire and Pine.

One recent summer in my childhood garage (not the most pristine of recording conditions), I sampled each of the harp's strings, naming the pitches one by one as I plucked and recorded. These recorded notes - transformed, re-tuned and for the most part transported from the context of that dusty garage – comprise the backbone of this electroacoustic work, which aims to set free the music inherent in this beloved little instrument. Now and again, the sonic dust of the garage makes it into the tail of a harp note. The sounds cannot be clinically separated from their real-world context without losing some of their spirit.

The work moves from exploring its recognisable sound source to a dense and reverent sound world. The harp’s plucks and scratches are joined by a chorus of morose voices. Finally, fishing wire flies as the notes become unbound from any semblance of Western tuning.

Full track on Bandcamp. 

Listen in full

Wire and Pine - Part I

Too excited to share this special excerpt of Sensitive Instruments with performer, poet and chemist Geosmin Turpin. Performed live in July 2024 at Local Edition, Glebe.

Sensitive Instruments (Live at Local Edition, July 2024)

Performed at Canberra Symphony Orchestra's "Power of One" Concert, 2019 National Portrait Gallery

Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes

Claire Edwardes is an internationally acclaimed percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Sydney based innovative new music group, Ensemble Offspring. She has been described by the press as a ‘sorceress of percussion’ and is well known for her powerhouse style of playing and unique stage presence. Claire is the only Australian musician to win the APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual three times (2016, 2012, 2007), is the recipient of an Australia Council and Freedman Fellowship and the winner of numerous European instrumental and percussion competitions (resident there for seven years) as well as 1999 Australian Young Performer of the Year. Recently appearing as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Myer Music Bowl and on Play School to an audience of thousands of children, Claire is passionate about percussion and new sounds being widely disseminated.

Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes

Claire Edwardes - PERCUSSIONIST/COMPOSER