The Flute and The Artistic Moment: Through my compositions, my music, my flute playing and my other artworks, I seek to connect everything in the universe. My musical approach to the artistic moment is conveyed in ‘Syrinx at the Waterhole Karnak’ (from my album Flute Spirit: Dreams and Meditations) – which you’ll find on Spotify, Apple Music & in

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Music is as natural as breathing. My goal is to fuse cultural sophistication with nature. Through the finesse of classically informed music, I seek to echo the sounds of the bush, the wind, the animals, the creeks & oceans, the movement of the stars.

I am a Neptunian creature. When I compose and play, time stops, ego disappears, conscious mind & personality dissolve. I connect with intensity, with the density of water.

This piece -largely improvised-is a tribute to Claude Debussy’s famous solo flute piece Syrinx. It hovers with an Eastern tonality around the flattened fifth: that mysterious, mystical note which sets up a yearning within us all.

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At the age of 22 I visited the ancient waterhole at Diane Cilento’s Karnak Rainforest Sanctuary in FNQ. Miles from civilisation, doused in dappled sunlight & primeval mists, emerging naked from the river, I played Debussy’s Syrinx to the sound of frogs & the sparkling water. (For those who don’t know the story: Ovid’s Metamorphosis describes the transformation of the water nymph, Syrinx, into a flute or Panpipes (‘Syrinx”). The transformer is Pan, whose breath on the river reeds makes a beautiful sound, the magic of which entraps the nymph inside the flute forever…)

Rainforest Creek Karnak Playhouse Far North Queensland

Harnessing the breath to make music is an early form of alchemy. This piece seeks to convey that, conjuring up a teenage event when my musical spirit was invaded by sounds of Balinese bamboo flute… the piece also references my inspirational French flute teachers,

Jean-Pierre Rampal

Alain Marion

their sensuality and generosity of musicianship. Music is my tool of reconciliation. The flute, mankind’s second voice, is the oldest instrument, dating back some 40,000 years. You can hear the didgeridoo calling in this piece, too (Didgeridoo, belonging to the same ancient breath- instrument family-also dates back 40,000 years.)

I crave creative fulfilment that reaches out to others. An Australian-French flute player, I yearn to be reconciled, to dissolve into the sound: the way rain becomes ocean… beyond time and personality-to be in that magical, musical place where all is one.

Healing Meditation Music with Sounds of Nature, Flute & Frogs for Sleep, Study & Relaxation 25 minute extended version:

Syrinx at the Waterhole Karnak