Month: September 2016

9.00 am: In deep. The day powered up immediately: consultations, negotiations, planning chats, references, and preparations for the remainder of the morning. The fast and the furious can be exhilarating.…

8.30 am: A review of last night’s incoming mail was followed by a tiny tinker on the workbench, in order to effect a modification to PedalBoard IV. Bring on the RAT:…

9.00 am: A meeting with Mr Garrett and Dr Forster to discuss the reconfiguration of the painting studio: There’s a subtle psychology to the arrangement of work spaces. Students need…

Term 1, Day 1. It rained on my first day of term at Aberystwyth University (then, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) as I embarked upon the first of two postgraduate…

8.45 am: Orientation. What must be done? What needs to be done? What should be done? What can be done? And, what would I like to do? A few more mixer…

8.30 am: Email dispatches, postgraduate admin., a review of intent, and a preparation for School, at 9.30 am: 9.45 am: Contrary to yesterday’s anticipation — a further, late MA Fine…

8.30 am: Admin catch up. 9.00 am: A morning in the studio to ‘play’. I was investigating ways in which an electric guitar could be processed, in a controllable and…

8.30 am: I put together papers for the external examiner and headed to the School to meet him for an pre-examination discussion. On such occasions, it’s useful to walk the…

Aberystwyth is a town that you fall in and out of love with repeatedly. You can live here for years, and gradually lose contact with it … take it for…

8.30 am: A bitty beginning to the day: domestics, clearing up, putting out, putting away, shelving, counting, answering, puzzling, waiting. 9.20 am: The Apogee Duet had become too unstable to…