on the last day of 2024 Kentucky's Fantasy Audio magazine released my audio-verse-drama "The Fox and the Hiker" : https://fantasyaudiomagazine.bandcamp.com/album/the-fox-the-hiker Set in a post-apocalyptic version of Beecraigs (the forest near Linlithgow, Scotland), The Fox and the Hiker is an audio-verse-drama – two monologues set to an electronic soundscape. There is the Hiker (the last human left, trying to climb to the top of a hill called Cockleroi; played by Chris Black) and there is the Fox (who wants to eat the Hiker's heart; played by me). During their parallel journeys are dreams within dreams, eco-mockery, asynchronicity, and the pulse of deep time, wherein both animals unite to become cosmic dust… To create the soundscape, I collaborated with Edinburgh-based producer Alasdair Kelly. While I improvised on a Roland System-8, Kelly responded with electric guitar, reversed and distorted through pedalboard. These sounds were then combined with field recordings from around Linlithgow Loch (circa January 2nd 2023), to create the final work. Feel free to check it out :)