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	Sounding Wivenhoe / Sounding the Powerhouse (2007) Sounding: The act of one that sounds. A probe of the environment for scientific observation. A measured depth of water. A site-specific musical performance on the banks of Lake Wivenhoe harnessing music, scientific data, and the natural environment. Video installation and live events at Brisbane Powerhouse.
"Griswold starts playing high up the keyboard - fast tinkling arpeggios gradually extending in range. Over the top are occasional blurts from the wind and brass players, their lines also gradually extending as the piece moves along. Cello and bassoon play off each other, jazz fragments pop up on the side from trumpet, trombone and clarinet. Gradually the piano moves into hammered string sounds, then chills down to a sort of rubber harp. Performers echo rhythms and pitch fragments across the space." - Greg Hooper, Realtime 80. Composer Erik Griswold and artist Rebecca Ross with musicians Bettina Crimmins, Elliott Dalgleish, Oscar Garrido de la Rosa, Richard Haynes, Crystal Hildred, Louise King, Dan Quigley, John Rodgers, Vanessa Tomlinson.
	Zoo Dada (2005) Clocked Out Productions presents Zoo Dada, a multi-arts event featuring rare Dada and Fluxus pieces alongside new, original works by Brisbane's most daring performing and visual artists. Zoo Dada will subvert, challenge, confront, and just plain poke fun at any and all conventions of art and life.
Featuring Jan Baker-Finch, Sharka Bosakova, Lisa O'Neill, Norman Price, John Rodgers, Sandra Selig, Ba Da Boom Percussion and many more! Premiered at The Zoo, Brisbane, July 2005.
	Veronique (2002-3) Rosemary Joy - sculpture Vanessa Tomlinson - performance Hitting, scratching, rubbing, preening - Rosemary Joy's sculptural work takes wearable percussive art to new heights. Trapped inside this beautiful ball gown, percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson tries to fulfill the outfits potential only to find herself wielding super-sized industrial mallets to reveal microscopic and unfashionable sounds.
	Permanent Transit (2002) Permanent Transit is a multimedia collaboration involving kinetic sculptures, country blues, and Death Valley. Text and image projections onto hanging painted screens submerge us in a hypnotic optical world of in-betweenness.
Erik Griswold - music / Sarah Pirrie - sculpture / Craig Foltz - text. With Tim O'Dwyer - reeds, Erkki Veltheim - violin, Erik Griswold - piano, Mark Shepherd - contrabass, Vanessa Tomlinson - percussion. Premiered at Performing Arts Technology Unit, Adelaide.
	Sichuan Fantasy (2002) A Chinese-Australian-American collaboration fusing Sichuan folk, street, and classical traditions with experimental music, dance and multi-media. Created by Clocked Out Duo and Zou Xiangping - music and video. Zhang Ping, Yang Xiangdong, Wu Xumin - dance and stage design
"The well familiar marketplace sounds of modern Chengdu, the strange delight of old Chengdu's thriving exuberance, the Australian artists speaking in the "skewed" Sichuan dialect of the street sellers, all combined to make the audience at once laugh heartily and feel deeply impressed by these musicians' sincere love of Chengdu." Chengdu Commercian Daily, January 2002.
	Virtuosic Visions(2001-2) Site-specific solo concerts interacting with the architecture and exhibitions of the Melbourne Museum. The second series begins 9 March 2002. Featuring Natasha Anderson, Melissa Madden Gray, Mardi McSullea, Erkki Veltheim, Dave Brown, Robin Fox, Adrian Sherriff, Timothy O'Dwyer, Carl Rossman, Geoffrey Morris, Tom Fryer, Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson
"The wide curved walkway quickly filled with the cognoscenti and the curious, who witnessed a lively and often humorous performance...For every child there, the work [Vanessa Tomlinson's "Dear Judy"] legitimated the idea of environmental and sonic self-exploration." RealTime Arts Magazine, May-June 2001.
	Other Planes (2000) Ghostly aural illusions, "alchemical" transformations of sound, light, fabric and language. Erik Griswold - music / Sarah Pirrie - sculpture / Craig Foltz - text
"The tall, lean pianist-composer hovered over narrow stretches of his keyboard and picked and pounded out "Other Planes"...the alchemical transformation of furious, minimal clusters into eerie harmonics and distant half-heard melodies, sudden evocations of gamelan and marimba. American writer Craig Foltz provided text and voice via phone line for the title work, the apocalyptic intoning of the banalities of the everyday...Visual artist Sarah Pirie framed Griswold with treated fabrics pierced by light, echoing the detail of the compositions and the preparation of the piano" Realtime Arts, December 2001.
	Dada Cabaret (1999) A multi-layered and intricately structured work of musico-theatrical nonsense. In the starring role Vanessa Tomlinson presents her astounding recitation of Kurt Schwitters' epic sound poem Ursonate, while a merry band of musical misfits thwart and disrupt her every move with tantalizing adaptations of Dada and Fluxus performance pieces. With Vanessa Tomlinson, Ernie Althoff, Warren Burt, bluepoles quartet, Sarah Pirrie
"A several ring circus...that teetered angularly towards zaniness." The Age (Melbourne), November 1999. Winner of two Green Room Awards, and Best Cabaret at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2000 Award.