8.30 pm. For the last few days, I’ve looked to the present from the past. Today, I look to the future from the present. Preparations. Following a review of incoming mail, I returned to outstanding business in the sound studio. Over the next couple of days, my tasks are to: integrate two further sound filters into the record deck array; thoroughly test the modified Custom RF Stealth guitar; clean and make fit for purpose the new (old) Revox tape recorder; and review the new composition.

9.30 pm. To begin, a putting away of things:

Every pedal, cable type, and power connector has an allocated box from which it comes and is returned. A studio should be regulated like a well-ordered palette. 12.00 pm. I pressed on with the new composition. I’m vacillating between two approaches, neither of which is sufficient unto itself. Either fusion or selection or wholesale rejection is the answer.

2.00 pm. I put the new modifications on the guitar to the test. The active-pickup (one which is powered by a preamp that boosts the signal and provides a more subtle adjustment to its tone) has considerable punch. I need this capacity to push the signal through the chain of synthesiser filters more effectively:

7.00 pm. I made a tentative remix of the new composition, exploring transitions from one sonic idea to another. I’m not convinced either way. I’m importing sound samples that were conceived for an earlier and entirely different approach to the source material. When ideas are conceived independently of one another and brought together, they don’t coalesce, naturally. But all things are possible. Sometimes, disparate forms dovetail fortuitously: