Their Most August Public Organ

I worked on this book from March - October 2026. Keri Glastonbury told me it is written in an ‘ambient style’ and I think that’s the best description of its intention: a man takes the train from Newcastle to Central Coast to see his friend, and while looking out the window he confronts the limits of his imagination, particularly the memory of having installed solar powered computer modules in trees with his partner across regional NSW. You can read the novel below in this ‘ROOT Module’ built to replicate the modules in the book, or you can read it on the Internet Archive here. I’ve also built a physical working version of the module that I have been hosting in parks across Newcastle - you can see me talk about this project here. It is the second work in a trilogy of works, the first of which was Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters.