Connor D'Netto

Some Kinda Way

SNT044

December 5, 2025

Digital

I didn’t really work myself out until my early twenties, and then didn’t come out till a few years later. Instead I just moved overseas; since I was new and no one knew me, I didn’t have to come out, so that was that.

It wasn’t until I moved back to Australia in late 2019 that I had to progressively do the coming out bit by bit to close friends/family etc. though I did come out to my mum before then. I’d made the decision that I was going to do so in late 2018, that I’d do it while I was back in Aus for Christmas and New Years. Immediately I felt so much more free after making that decision, even before actually doing it, just knowing I was okay enough to do so made me feel so much more like myself.

I’d started writing Feeling More Like shortly after, in early 2019, the piece growing out of the simple idea of reveling in all the rich quirky-ness of the viola da gamba by layering up delays and loops, to saturate and soak in it. When NYC-based org ChamberQUEER asked me if I’d like to contribute something to their livestreamed festival in 2020, I figured it was the perfect occasion to premiere this with my friend Shannon Luk.

Some Kinda Way came a couple years later, when the wonderful clarinettist Jason Noble and I were looking for something to collaborate on. Initially deciding on creating something with the same setup/instrumentation of Steve Reich’s iconic New York Counterpoint, Some Kinda Way took on a similar goal of saturating and soaking in the sound of the instrument and ideas at hand. Rather than indulging in an exploration of current self, this piece felt like a reclamation of those things that didn’t work, feel at home, or fit in at the time, taking musical materials rejected from past projects and weaving the fabric of this piece to celebrate them. 

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releases December 5, 2025

Music composed by Connor D’Netto
Performed by Jason Noble (clarinets) and Shannon Luk (viola da gamba & nyckylharpa)
Produced and mixed by Connor D’Netto and Ben Gibson
Recorded at Gasworks Recording Studio by Ben Gibson and Daniel Kassulke
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Album Art by Connor D’Netto

This project has been supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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