mBu Video

Video description: all natural and cut to the quick...In the Botanic Gardens behind the Sydney Conservatorium of Music stands a tall thicket of bamboo (Bambusa spp.) whose stems have been graffiti'd ten times o'er by louts and lovers, local and alien. mBu is my little elegy, both musically and visually, to this amusing copse of brave but wounded wildlife. The soundtrack was created by tapping, blowing on, scraping, or dropping lengths of bamboo, and recording bambooming groans when wind sighed through the grove and thrummed its trunks. No environmentalist statement is intended or implied. mBu is an assemblage of still and moving images of the grove, in which I leave the graffitists' gougings, and the exquisite shades and textures of these grand grasses, to speak for themselves.

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