1.Growing Up

My family wasn’t so musical. My dad loved to sing and my mum played a bit of piano but it was not a common thing for either of them to do. Actually, I’m the first professional musician in the family on either side as far back as anyone can remember. The first time I realised that music could convey other states of consciousness was at a Pink Floyd concert in Fremantle when I was a teenager. I had a dream two nights before the concert and during the concert I re-entered that dream and relived the dream in my actual life in great detail.

2.Inspirations

Well my favourite musicians are the friends that I surround myself with. My heroes are people I have come to know and work with in all different fields. A full three-dimensional experience with someone who really ‘has it’ is worth far more to me than a recording or seeing a superhero band play a concert. I’m inspired by nature, cicadas, frogs, the sound of the ocean and the empty silence of a sky full of stars.

3.Your Band

So, we are not a band in the normal way that a band would be linked to music in an article like this. We are me, Si Mullumby and Jon Worsley, and we don’t play chords, melody lines or even have rhythms. We are devoid of the kind of content that a band would normally form together to create. We use extra-long didgeridoos and create a field of vibration that totally resonates the body. We are both leaders in our fields: I am continuously pushing the boundaries of what can be done with a didgeridoo.

4.The Music You Make

Well there is nothing at all similar to Dream Drone. It is unique. It is a style developed by me, Si Mullumby and Jon Worsley, that gives the space for the audience to have an experience. It’s born out of some cultural lacks in our society to give a space and place in life to non-ordinary experiences. The sound is surprisingly powerful and the kinds of experiences people have reported to date are beyond my wildest dreams. We have one album titled Dream Drone and it is only for sale at our events to people who have first experienced the sound.

5.Music, Right Here,Right Now

Well Dream Drone isn’t really a part of the music scene at all. It’s a part of another movement that isn’t about entertainment. It’s about using the sound to help you have a better life and become more aligned with yourself. It’s a very personal inward thing.

OneSpace presents Dream Drone And The Sound Of Hemp Journey at Sydney Opera House on Saturday September 17.

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