" a study in harmony
" prelude to a hopeful unknown - 3 layers of improvised cello
" prelude to the fire - an orchestral drive inspired by Bach
" plasticcimo - a symphonic ensemble piece inspired by plastics
" slap-slap trio - with slapped guitar, cajon, and slapped cello.. and voice.
" miramidrama - Mira behind microphone plus romantic bravura-styled piano
" lockdown - cello, piano and strings plus a domestic object with much clang
" we just don't know - sounds of the insecurity brought about by the Corona virus
" future scream - voice plus electronics
" pots and drums - a vibrant dance with african drum loops, cello, strings and kitchen pots
" two hours after midnight - haunting piece with bending piano and strings
" vir mariana - a symphonic ode to the life of a deeply religious mother
" I arrive in Africa - poem with marimba music
" mais quand on chante - improvised french song with cello and guitar accompaniment
FULL SOUNDTRACKS
" Bye Bye Blue Sky - created for a theatre production on the letters written by anti-apartheid activist Ruth First
" The Twelve Princesses - created for a children's play
" Jacqui - created for a theatre production on the tragic life of cellist Jacqueline Duprez
VIDEO
" frozen falls - images of ice formations next to a Canadian highway along with contemplative music
" night walk - walking the streets of Paris at night, with original soundtrack and special effects
" little steps of life - following Mira in the forest while relating the story of a bad and recurring childhood dream
" truth distorted - special effects animation depicting the way truth can be broken
" Relentless Machine - poetic text and music on humanity's crazy drive to build - and be like - unstoppable machines
" a warm, warm reception - for us, by a local youth development initiative in Khayelitsha
" mr trrrump - experimental visuals with a poetic analysis of Trump's narcissism
" those italy days - a guitar-accompanied trip down mountain village memory lanes..
" road to Hiroshima - intersection between a Japanese highway and a wasted South African "bakkie"
" a south african home - a brief tour of a typical south african house interior, dating from the apartheid era
" dutch dusk - evocative scenes from the Dutch countryside with music of extreme tranquility
" history lesson - probing the meaning of the monumentalizing of the fallen during conflicts run by men
VISUAL ART
" Afrikaans vir Vlaams - illustrations for humourously descriptive Afrikaans words
" childhood wonder - African-style graphic with text
" plastic scene - striking images from a mismanaged rubbish dump
" manhattan walk - arresting visuals on the way to Ground Zero
" art debut of a two year old - Mira with crayon on mirror
" life in times of the coronavirus - spontaneous digital graphic
" 10 Days in Sharjah - slideshow of this Emirate's exotic beauty
" a canadian winter town - snow and isolation on the Canadian plains
" japan driveby - vivid images taken while driving in the vicinity of Osaka
POEMS
" A contemplative love poem with the narrative of how a ballerina dares to show her emotions on stage.
" mother nature speaks to reveal aspects of her character
" inspired by seeing images of dead refugee bodies washing up at the European shores, political, protest
" the long journey of finding one's artistic voice
" reaction to losing precious data because of computer failure
" meeting with a man suffering from dementia
" a critical look at America's work ethic
" maybe we should just accept we humans have failed
" impressions after visiting a commune of fundamentalist faith in the searing heat of a warming globe
" thoughts at night in the middle of Manhattan
" an ode to the Hogsback mountain and its spiritual power
" inside the consumer machine, and how a virus came to throw a spanner in the works
" my white feet landing in Africa and what that means
" when Mira is sleeping..
ESSAYS
" on consumerism as the loss of control
" on thoughts and fears and questions in the midst of a typical service delivery protest in South Africa
" a serious complaint against men in leadership positions today who hark back to a time when the masculine principle still dominated
" reflecting on the seductive power of a city after having driven through the heart of Toronto
" a new understanding of faith as an integral component of all experience of reality
" thoughts on Hollywood, how it is not like what one would think it is like
" how a mouth mask and the anger this evokes in Mira, brought forth a longing for a more wild, untamed expression of emotions.
" on the meaning of race and racism
" thoughts around music education on occasion of Mira's first musical expression on the piano
" a harsh look at the harsh reality of Europe's glory days
" what one can get used to about persisting poverty, and what not
PROSE
" an intense dialogue between two best friends, inspired on the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyewski
" on the first beheading by ISIS in Europe, the killing of a priest in the North of France.
" a humourous look at American consumer culture, on being offered a staggering number of choices of foam for a cappuccino
" a single father raising an only son needs to deal with past trauma, having been deserted by his bi-polar wife
" the bizarre real life story of a South Korean driver losing it on a highway
" inside the mind of the man who wrote "The Art of the Deal"