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Composer and sound artist MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants, and Avi Amesbury. Image Credit: Ivana Girard

Collaboration - MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants

The Self Reconciliation Project

Track 1: A journey traveled alone

Track 2: The earth speaks

Track 3: Immersion

Track 4: We had a fence

Track 5: I, my heart

Track 6: I did not see

Track 7: The land speaks

Track 8: Shifting perspective

Track 8: Pain

MJ, the Australian composer and sound artist behind Those Who Ride With Giants, and I have collaborated on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project. I spent two weeks at MJ's studio in Western Australia in February 2025, followed by a second visit in September.

Storytelling has become a focus of the project, and I have been exploring the use of different media to tell the story. This experimental collaboration involves combining my writing, poetry and research with ceramic elements and landscape sounds with MJ's compositions, creating a spoken-word soundscape production.

The Self Reconciliation Project examines the history of conflict, abuse and racism between the First Nation people and the coloniser/settlers. As a settler descendant the project examines the journey towards reconcillation through knowledge, understanding and empathy.

Read: Collaboration MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants

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WHAT

Collaboration

WHERE

MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants

WHEN

February and September 2025