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Yeh, same here. Glad you've said. I've always been into that. That's the idea behind all those images I make, the false-names, etc. I'm working to affect a whole cosmology of associations, clues, misquotes, homages, and so on. I do this in my blog and my myspace; but I'd like to bring that element firmly into performance, too. The film was a move on that front. I see most artful things as essentially performative, theatrical: and my interest is more orientated toward something like The Goons than the serious po-faced improv world. Who wants to watch a load of middle-aged fellas twiddling knobs? Visually, that's hard work for an audience. I cannot see why we have to be the focus of attention at all. I know we are all extremely good looking, but it just looks like a rock band, doesn't it? Nothing wrong with that per se, but I, like you, would like to see where else we can take it. I love stuff like Paul McCarthy, the Viennese Actionists, Happenings, Fluxus, of course Dada. It's what I studied on the PhD really. We've never really chatted about this, *. Glad you brought it up. I'd like to learn what you think of the imagery I use as is - the blog, the stuff on myspace. I'm getting some really good reactions to this material actually - in fact, I'm getting lots. It all looks mysterious, but I think people pick up on its sense of fun, too. I've not exactly researched this, but it does have a kind of look of its own: surrealistic, comic, academic, fetishistic, sexy, political, refs to philosophy and weighty ideas, but having a picture of Jeremy Clarkson labelled as 'Noam Chomsky'. In a sense, that's the idea I had with murmury - kind of free-association, but with didactic content, too. The sum is supposed to reflect a kind of definite agenda. The films I made, for instance, were intentionally Google-ish - undifferentiated imagery; one minute a load of dead cows, then a mum smiling at her kids, then a pub brawl, then a black screen, then line-dancing, then missiles, then anonymous people looking into the camera... The soundartworks I have posted have attracted praise, too; which surprised me, because I made them in about 20 minutes, just learning how Nero Wave Editor works. To my mind, it's all out there, mate. One just has to apply oneself. Best wishes, Anthony