Monthly Archives: February 2011

Experiments with Light Clay Insulation (via Earthbag Building Blog)


Patti Stouter has been running a series of very interesting, even surprising, experiments with various materials that might be used to insulate earthbag walls. She has focused her attention on light-weight natural or recycled materials that can be bound together … Continue reading

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Earth Building: Low Energy Input (via Earthbag Building Blog)


Building with earth requires low energy input in processing and handling soil – only about 1% of the energy required to manufacture and process the same volume of cement concrete. This aspect was investigated by the Desert Architecture Unit which … Continue reading

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Complete unit of work, scores and recordings published today (via Having nothing to say and saying it.)


Today I've published a stack of work I did last year for when I rewrote my Daedalus and Icarus (text by John Hughes) for MLC School's massed middle school choirs (over 300 voices) together with piano and strings. I created … Continue reading

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