8.15 pm. I booted-up my exhibition devices the School before returning to homebase, determining my teaching schedule for the week, notifying folk of such, and, then, inserting the final few footnotes into the wax cylinder chapter. I’m just a few hours overdue on my own deadline on this project.

11.00 am. Text complete, I return to the National Screen & Sound Archive project (the first phases of which has to be completed by the end of the month). To begin, two websites related to the wax cylinder need to be finalised and launched. The first provides a streamable source for the CD album. In publicizing this, I may be shooting myself in the foot. Sales of the CD might plummet. But the quality of the latter is far superior IMO:

The second site provides material supporting transcripts of the source and its recompositions, and a more in-depth examination of the processes and methodology underlying the suite of sound works:

1.30 pm. I caught up on teaching admin before opening the two web sites, inspecting their contents, and testing their functionality. My external hard drive is yielding sound files of the suite exceedingly slowly. (The new iMacs assume that the user downloads everything online; thus, they don’t have an integral disc slot). The CD player makes a stuttery-fluttery-slippery noise, like I do when on a longish jog. It’s our age, you see!

The National Screen & Sound Archive notified me that the CDs have now been delivered by the record company. We now need to determine the date and nature of a release event. Plans are also afoot to stage a sound event in the concourse of the Drwm as part a series of The Bible in Translation sound events during the next year.

6.20 pm. Practise session 1.  Explorations of harmonic parallels and octave sweeps with the ‘Whammy’ pedal. 7.20 pm. I read through and corrected the transcriptions of the CD suite, mopped up emails, and wrote a few letters to those who might benefit from them. 9.40 pm. Practise session 2: Plucking with the fleshy part of the right thumb. In so doing, the right hand is as intimately and immediately connected to the strings as the left hand:

10.30 pm. ‘The night watch’. I uploaded four tracks that were made in collaboration with Dr Roberts (a sound artist and a university research officer). The outcome of the exchange is such as to merit some public accessibility.