Check this out, taking rural and roots music to another place.

I getting another play with Lucky this month.! This time it's a little more open musically speaking so the pressure is off a little, to get into the music.

I'll send pics etc as they come.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-22/acoustic-life-of-sheds-project/6030182

The title of this is an example of the prominence of the idea that the inanimate has a soul, or a ghost in the machine as it were. This idea has taken on special significance since Kurzweil wrote his book "Singularity" where we are looking at a non-biological future. The future of all matter is to become sentient in his outlook. Artists have really run with this and you can find the idea worked out in so many projects. I'd like to see The Acoustic Life of Sheds take this idea a little further than just in the title, like finding faces in the knots of the wood, or the way nails are arranged. Items laying in the dust that look like bodies etc. Doors and windows that look like a mouth and eyes. Use musicians from the locale and that's a multimedia exhibition right there. Take it all the way to the Guggenheim.

That's fascinating. And it sounds like a great grassroots way to engender more live performance.
Although I must say I detest the so-called homegrown music trends around where I live (dominated by roots-music hipsters who want to pluck on banjos and play on old, crappy partial drum sets - because they're anti-establishment), an idea like this could do live music in Maine some good.

Hi Gents.

Thanks for lucid and strong views. That will make for good conversation with Lucky on the way up to Wynyard.

I'll see if I can play the knots in the trees, or indeed any permaculture percussion that I find.

Lots o Luv.