- Maverick Music from Auckland – Essay commissioned for Soundbleed journal (October 2022).
- Rituals and Roles : A essay from 2016 about the Wailing Chamber (Bain 2013) and Graft (Radford -ongoing).
- “I Just Called” (November 2017) Thoughts on the nature and aesthetic situation of this work.
- It’s For You : Digital version of the programme notes. From the November 2017 exhibition at Audio Foundation (Auckland)
- Commodity and excretion (September 2017) “30 years spent working as scientist in a medical laboratory taught me that you can know a lot about a person from their shit.”
- The Voyeurs’ Manifesto (August 2017) I am, by nature, a curious person. That’s a nice way of saying nosy.
- The use of recorded improvised segments as material for development in electroacoustic composition (October 2013) Background writing about the production of my 8-channel work, Let Me Be Your Sax Machine.
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