In the rainforest of northern New South Wales, where the trees press close to the house and the outside world seems to arrive softened by leaves, Matt Ottley is thinking about the sound of a story.
Not the audiobook version. Not a soundtrack added after the fact. Not the polite little wash of music that sometimes sits behind words to tell an audience how to feel.
Ottley is interested in something more unusual, and far more difficult to explain: the place where image, word and music are not separate artistic languages, but different expressions of the same inner weather.
It is an idea that has followed him for most of his life….
In these webpages we invite you to explore Matt’s world.
Rada Campbell – Journalist