Jesse Budel is an Australian composer-performer, sound artist, and scholar (his PhD focused on adapting soundscape ecology to creative process, resulting in a body of works responding to South Australian ecosystems and soundscapes), whose works are for diverse media and spaces. sanctuary x mill (sanctuary by mill) is a series of improvisatory exchanges between Budel and fellow Australian experimental percussionist and environmental sound artist Vanessa Tomlinson and hyper-pianist Erik Griswold.
Bodel, Tomlinson, and Griswold explored the local ruined piano sanctuaries, such as those nurtured by Australian experimental composer, pianist, and Zen teacher Ros Bolleter. These sanctuaries provide spaces for these foreign instruments to see out their final days, and let their woods, metals, felts, glues, and ivories be absorbed by the landscapes into which they
