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February 2004 Strom Fifty Three. Hello As the year rapidly dissolves, projects begin to take shape for the year to come, my travel addiction returns and sleep is again a…

January 2004 Strom Fifty Two. Hello I’m writing this on the last day of the year, still recovering from the nasty flu that Santa very ungenerously gave me for Christmas,…

December 2003  Strom Fifty One  Hello  Though the garish street decorations in London instruct me that this must be Christmas, the mood just isnít quite festive as…

November 2003 Strom Fifty Hello It’s not often that I become embroiled in what is professionally known as a ‘National Disaster’ but I was recently enjoying the relative peace of…

October 2003 Strom Forty Nine. Hello The addictive travel bug has returned. In the last seven days I’ve been adventuring around Europe in various situations – from exploring the street…

September 2003 Strom Forty Eight. Hello Sixteen weeks until Christmas, the radio informs me. How unsettling. My respite from travelling is over and the bug kicks in again this month…

August 2003 Strom Forty Seven. Hola Almost a whole month in London and I’m not going crazy. It is a time when I bump into friends by chance and they…

July 2003 Strom Forty Six. Hello Fresh and tanned from the Venice Biennale where I performed again with Random Dance Company for our project Nemesis, I sit here in a…

June 2003 Strom Forty Five. Hello It’s been an especially busy month. The performances with Random Dance in Amsterdam were very well received, a trip to Warsaw to present my…

May 2003 Strom Forty Four. Hello Summer is finally on the way and with it the usual rain clouds and chilly winds that London kindly offers. But May time brings…

April 2003 Strom Forty Three. A late calendar update but having spent more hours in the air than on the ground recently that might seem excusable. Perhaps living at 33,000…

March 2003 Strom Forty Two. Hello Time seems to have accelerated at an inconceivable pace ­ at one moment I was showered in red roses with angels sprinkled all around…

February 2003 Strom Forty One. Hello The cold air and dank skies of London refuse to depart, snow keeps falling in countries where I least expect it to, and the…

January 2003 Strom Forty. Salut Greetings into a fresh year, late though this is. This is an especially lucid 2003 too because I am viewing the world through new eyes,…

December 2002 Strom Thirty Nine.  Salut Now, a momentary break from searching for the last gifts for family and friends and a chance to catch up on recent weeks.…

November 2002 Strom Thirty Eight.  Salut The skies above London are still fresh with the aroma of spent fireworks from our annual November celebrations and I’m ready to set…

October 2002 Strom Thirty Six.  Salut! In answer to recent emails I am still alive. Scheduling and travelling do not make good bed fellows and yet I am still…

June 2002 Strom Thirty Five. Salut! For those who missed out seeing Scanner the Famous Guinea Pig recently, I should let you know that I am safely healed from a…

April 2002 Strom Thirty Three. Salut! A few busy weeks behind me and almost the hint of a suntan again. Firstly apologies to anyone reading from Australia. I had a…

March 2002 Anyone in London might be interested in a free Scanner show being recorded for BBC Radio Three’s Mixing It show. I will be improvising live with David Cunningham…

February 2002 Strom Thirty Two. G’Day from Australia That’s my present geographical location, a chance to pet a koala bear again and to explore the Adelaide Festival and Fringe Festival…

January 2002 Strom Thirty One. Hello A late welcome into the new year, now full of rain and blustery winds in the UK. Not that I get to experience that…

November 2001 Strom Thirty. Hello I write nursing a still painful face – where I had some grim dental surgery recently which I am still recovering from – a mouth…

September 2001 Strom Twenty Eight. Hello My, how the colour of our day can swiftly shift. With grey emotional clouds still hanging low over the globe in the light of…

August 2001 Strom Twenty Seven. Hello I am freshly back from Australia now where I had the most amazing time, it may feel like being trapped inside a tightly packaged…

Late July 2001 Strom Twenty Six. Hello The months seem to fly by don’t they? Just back from this modest American tour with Plastiq Phantom which was hugely entertaining. A…

Late June 2001 Strom Twenty Five. Hello I am barely recognisable right now with a suntan – having explored the Sonar festival in Barcelona and my installation ‘The Spirit of…

May 2001 Strom Twenty Four. Hello again I just returned from France where I have been recording ghosts and haunted areas of Paris for a show at the Pompidou Centre…

March 2001 Strom Twenty Three. Hello Almost freshly returned from the West Coast, just missing the earthquake areas and played a fine show with Carsten Nicolai at SFMOMA as part…