8.30 am. Updated the John Harvey: Blog site with reports on the first two of three reconstructions of Duchamp’s music. The final piece will be a rendering of his The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. Erratum Musical, which … Continue reading
9.00 am. An MA fine art tutorial. Owen’s studio rags. They are an unselfconscious residue of his palette, mark-making, application, and gesture; as distinctly his handiwork as anything he has produced, with deliberation, on canvas. When is a painting not a … Continue reading
9.00 am. The first of three MA Fine Art tutorials. For those students from a fine art only background, the first part of the degree is very demanding; they’re hitting (for the first time) art theory like a car a … Continue reading
8.00 am. At the School, duck-tape to hand, I was on my knees making safe cables in readiness for the morning’s reconstruction of Duchamp’s Sculpture Musicale (1913) by members of the Art/Sound module. 9.00 am. The composer/audients arrived and, after … Continue reading
The revision of the my circuit bending juvenilia was launched over the weekend: Auld Tune (2014). 8.30 am. Having orientated the soul, I attended to more mundane and temporal matters — establishing my timetable for the week and beyond, and updating … Continue reading
9.00 am. A trip to town to buy equipment storage boxes from Charlie’s — our cheap and cheerful, have everything, nearest you get to a hardware store in Aberystwyth. 10.00 am. I set about designing the cover for R B V … Continue reading
9.00 am. A ‘warning’ to my colleagues: 9.15 am. Completed the NSSAW minutes that I’d begun last night and cleared the desk for work on The Bible in Translation exhibition of visual and sound art works. 10.30 am. I’m investigating … Continue reading
9.00 am. I delivered the Art/Sound lecture on spirit and technology. It felt too dense and 5 minutes too long. I’ll prune the text before the next time that it’s out of the filing cabinet. On the day that Tesco announces a … Continue reading
9.30 am. My first MA tutorial of the morning engaged a process painter who is exploring dripping paint (as distinct from drip painting or painting drips). Such a simple proposition can have enormous implications. The study of the phenomenon requires a … Continue reading
The weather was very present today. 9.00 am. The wind buffeted, hummed, and hissed around the ceiling lantern in the lecture theatre: art and sound of a different order. After the morning’s Art/Sound lecture was delivered, I redelivered last Thursday’s … Continue reading