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Peter Siahna Wadham AKA Peet AKA Peter Rabbit is an Australian musician.
He started with standard flute, then moved to punk flute in 80s activist band Insyte and moved to analogue and digital electronica around 1986. His approach is rigorous, almost scholarly in that it combines deep personal exploration with musical and technical research.
Peet's practice has evolved considerably over the years. Peet's work is grounded in deep personal expression, thematic explorations of ideas, which have shifted from politics to spirituality, and always accompanied by musical and technical experimentation.
EARLY INFLUENCES - POLITICS, PUNK & ELECTRONIC
Peter distributed many mix tapes at high school, always sharing his musical knowledge generously. He would decorate cassetes and boxes with political slogans, doodles, song lists and other information. He was an early advocate of open source culture, activism, brand attacks and copyleft, seeing any limitation on the the distribution of knowledge or culture as part of an overall project of capitalist colonisation of the life-world.
As Peter or Peter Rabbit, his early punk work was heavily influenced by British anarcho-punk such as Crass / Conflict, Poison Girls, Chumbawamba and Flux of Pink Indians. He was involved with Young People Against Global Violence, a breakaway from Melbourne peace group Young People for Nuclear Disarmament, and the anti-apartheid movement and squatting scene.
Peter may or may not have had graffiti tags, done political graffiti or undertaken other direct action activism during this period.
During the mid-1980s, Peter was also listening across electronic music, guided by his theory that it had two tendencies, the feminine of American Laurie Anderson and the masculine of Germany's Kraftwerk. He was a big fan of the Legendary Pink Dots and influenced by their diverse instrumentation, deep analogue synth sounds and melding of anarchism and spiritualism.
Peter also embraced first generation hip-hop such as the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five then LL Cool J, Erik B and Rakim, Run-DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys.
Peter innovated with musical technology in the 1980s, experimenting with flute, tape loops, noise effects, analogue synthesisers, vocoder, samples and standard band instruments.
[Someone with knowledge of the musician needs to fill in the era from 1989-2011]
In 2012, Peter released an LP 'Lao Dreaming', which draws on original recordings in Laos and heavy work in his studio in Healesville. He has previously self-published, on cassettes and lossless digital formats.
He got bitten early and deeply by the P-Funk, unsurprisingly.
Peter Siahna Wadham AKA Peet AKA Peter Rabbit is an Australian musician.
He started with standard flute, then moved to punk flute in 80s activist band Insyte and moved to analogue and digital electronica around 1986. His approach is rigorous, almost scholarly in that it combines deep personal exploration with musical and technical research.
Peet's practice has evolved considerably over the years. Peet's work is grounded in deep personal expression, thematic explorations of ideas, which have shifted from politics to spirituality, and always accompanied by musical and technical experimentation.
EARLY INFLUENCES - POLITICS, PUNK & ELECTRONIC
Peter distributed many mix tapes at high school, always sharing his musical knowledge generously. He would decorate cassetes and boxes with political slogans, doodles, song lists and other information. He was an early advocate of open source culture, activism, brand attacks and copyleft, seeing any limitation on the the distribution of knowledge or culture as part of an overall project of capitalist colonisation of the life-world.
As Peter or Peter Rabbit, his early punk work was heavily influenced by British anarcho-punk such as Crass / Conflict, Poison Girls, Chumbawamba and Flux of Pink Indians. He was involved with Young People Against Global Violence, a breakaway from Melbourne peace group Young People for Nuclear Disarmament, and the anti-apartheid movement and squatting scene.
Peter may or may not have had graffiti tags, done political graffiti or undertaken other direct action activism during this period.
During the mid-1980s, Peter was also listening across electronic music, guided by his theory that it had two tendencies, the feminine of American Laurie Anderson and the masculine of Germany's Kraftwerk. He was a big fan of the Legendary Pink Dots and influenced by their diverse instrumentation, deep analogue synth sounds and melding of anarchism and spiritualism.
Peter also embraced first generation hip-hop such as the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five then LL Cool J, Erik B and Rakim, Run-DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys.
Peter innovated with musical technology in the 1980s, experimenting with flute, tape loops, noise effects, analogue synthesisers, vocoder, samples and standard band instruments.
[Someone with knowledge of the musician needs to fill in the era from 1989-2011]
In 2012, Peter released an LP 'Lao Dreaming', which draws on original recordings in Laos and heavy work in his studio in Healesville. He has previously self-published, on cassettes and lossless digital formats.
He got bitten early and deeply by the P-Funk, unsurprisingly.
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