"there are flowers that grow in the water and in the plains" (Subduing the Power of Pride) for double bass and didjeridoo - Based on gestures and formal aspects of a Tibetan ritual for the appeasement of wrathful deities, the work was perhaps composed as a means of appeasing the composer's own personal demons. The work in its present performance practice owes a great deal to the didjeridoo skills of Frances Gilfedder; in the outer sections of the work traditions of North Queensland are employed, and in the more rhythmic middle section Arnhem Land traditions are brought into play.