Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
The following non-refereed paper has been compiled by the editors from the audio transcript and notes provided by Susanna Ferrar for her talk delivered to the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference (Perth: 9 Oct. 2005). The original program note to her presentation reads: I keep talking about this project I\u27m doing, visiting places where the ashes of my grandparents\u27 children ended up, who were all born and raised in Western Australia. As I proceed, adventures seem to be befalling me. Sometimes it seems more important to hang out the washing or change the cat litter. The level of anxiety is high. I\u27m not sure I can cope. I am the artist. I am going to talk. I am chipping away all the bits that aren\u27t part of whatever it is that I am creating. I have sound, I have pictures. There are words. I don\u27t know what they will make in the end. It will be personal, subjective, universal, pretentious, daring, weak. Ferra also played the violin as part of her presentation
