Kulbuku for alto saxophone, violin, viola, double bass, and piano - bears many traces of the composers Australian experience and is based structurally and conceptually on the strangler fig tree, ficus pleocarpis, so common in this part of the world. The piece follows the form of the tree from its subterranean root base to its dense canopy. The work's title is th e denotation for this tree in the nearly extinct Western Australian Nyungar language. The living process of strangulation and subsequent replacement for the host tree by the parasitic strangle fig is used by the composer as a metaphor for the situation of indigenous cultures around the world.