One interesting development has been the increasing use of the didjeridu, especially in popular music. Phillip Houghton had a wonderful piece at Darwin (Darwin Guitar Festival '93); he's an example of a younger composer who has a style that is not only himself, identifiably Phillip, but which is kind of 'Australian' in a way. All his guitar music is like that. And over the past 10 to 15 years he's written a lot of guitar music. But in the last couple of years he's found a kind of form, I suppose the word is, so that he now feels comfortable in his own musical skin; he's at last rounded himself into really what he wants to say. The latest piece of his (Light on the Edge) was a really very good four-movement work. Two marimbas, two guitars played by Adrian Walter and Tim Kain, a double bass and a didjeridu. And the didjeridu was used brilliantly. It is a truly original piece in all ways.

- John Williams' Interview with Colin Cooper, Classical Guitar Magazine, Nov 1993