Looking forward to performing at Silence in Guelph on Friday, May 18 as part of Wolf Lake Tones – A Night of Poetry and Music. I will be playing double bass and cello with poets Madhur Anand, Gary Barwin, and Phil Hall, along with Georgia Urban playing saw – what fun! – as well as singers Megan De Roover, Shannon Kingsbury, Brian Lefresne, Liane Miedema, Sue Smith, and Carey West (all as voices of birds), for an “improvisational exploration of the interconnection between the human and the non-human, between language and the environment.” Next month I perform in Hamilton’s Something Else! Festival June 13-17, with a quartet of my Phantom Hunter collaborators Connor Bennett and Chris Palmer with percussionist Jesse Stewart, as well as with Gary Barwin again, in a trio with bassist/banjoist Victor Vrankulj.
I’ve recently posted the second of my Black Gate blog posts. The subject of this one is the iconic 1950s BBC-TV serial The Quatermass Experiment.
I’m approaching the conclusion of the first draft of the sequel to my 2015 novel The Midnight Games. Just WHEN it will be published, I don’t know – if I can get the draft to Wolsak & Wynn in June, we’ll figure out when it can be scheduled. This will be the second book of a trilogy – it takes our protagonist, Nate Silva, to the west coast where something sinister and alive, brought to Earth in 1946 aboard the Nazi spacecraft Oberth A-7 (shades of The Quatermass Experiment!) waits to escape from the bottom of a BC inlet. The book’s working title is The Medusa Deep.
