8.30 pm. A night of fractious thoughts and intermittent sleep. In the periods of more productive wakefulness, I reconciled my focal ambitions and commitments in sound art with my shopping list of forthcoming equipment purchases. (When money is tight, spending priorities need … Continue reading
7.50 am. A number of emergency admin tasks were undertaken. 9.00 am. Variously, back to yesterday’s sound work and to further ruminations on the new theme for the conference. When confronted with a compositional impasse (as indeed I am), the … Continue reading
8.05 am. As I was preparing breakfast, the theme of the next sound conference arrived in my head. Such things come, like the biblical thief in the night, at a time you least expect. 8.30 am. I received an email from … Continue reading
I experienced, what was for me, a vivid and reasonably coherent dream last night. It took place in a large, well-lit modernist cafeteria in Berlin. A few people only were eating. I was giving a lecture on post-war art in Germany to … Continue reading
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am (Psalm 39.4). 8.00 am. A review of, and response to, my inbox. 8.40 am. Off to … Continue reading
8.15 am. I wrote emails, related to several undertakings this week, and aimed at keeping collaborators and facilitators in the loop. 8.45 am. After a little postgraduate admin and further shameless self promotion on Twitter, I headed for the sound … Continue reading
9.45 am. Emails checked, recent equipment sourcing reviewed, and I was back into the sound studio to re-educate myself in the ways of filters. Mercifully, I have a mind that is well adapted to learning the functions and logic of … Continue reading
7.45 am. I addressed a few admini-things before launching into town for an appointment with the dental hygienist at 8.30 am. The new bandstand is now in it’s skeletal form: The wait …. ‘I’ll be a good boy, and floss … Continue reading
8.00 am. An administrative prune before a walk to the School, now entering its Mary Celeste period. Other than a presence of a few Life-Long Learning courses, special events, postgraduates, secretaries, technicians, an ever watchful porter, and periginating academics, the … Continue reading
8.15 am. I dealt with the remaining inbox missives, followed up matters arising from a failed courier pick up, and sourced sound equipment. 9.00 am. Sound studio prep day. Having processed the English and Welsh versions of the Second Commandment, … Continue reading