in the decade to 2003 steer published extensively on the broader philosophical questions surrounding music, technology and consciousness in a number of journals including audiomedia, classical music, noisegate, diffusion, analecta husserliana, music & psyche and quaker journals. ‘the creative voice’, about the psychology of inspiration, was published in three separate journals and became a chapter in raising our voices (handsell 2001). received a ‘mind’ award for an audio documentary about salisbury hearing voices group. for 8 years, until its demise in 2009, maxwell was coordinator of the esp (ethics/spirituality/philosophy) field at the big green gathering on the mendips, which became a focal point for the exchange of progressive ideas.