More Than Us - are words and sounds that tell of my concern for and my awe and love of the natural environment. - are responses to the exploitation of those that have no voice. The words and the sounds comment on abuse of land and air and water and of the marginalisation of the more-than-human communities who live on the land, breath the air, and depend on that water. Texts include my own, those from friends and colleagues I invited to write for the program and poems and writing by, amongst others: B. Brecht, J.Clare, J. Hannukainen, H. MacDiarmint, E. Moerike and E.Morgan. Haikus, Nursery Rhyms and Worksongs have also inspired the program. Sounds I use are appropriate to the meaning of the words. There are very few traditional instruments to be heard in More Than Us. More often I use sounds inspired and generated by the subjects the poems such as twigs, acorns and pinecones. Helmut Lemke is an artist responding to social observations. Sound, the audible, the inaudible and the imaginable, is the basis of his work. He investigates sounds that are around us; some are obvious, some are familiar, some have to be found. He has worked internationally and researched and presented site-specific concerts, performances and installations all over the world both as a solo artist and as a collaborator with experts of many different disciplines. Helmut lives in Galloway, in the South-West of Scotland.