March 6, 2017

8.30 am: Yesterday’s incoming emails dispatched, I looked the week’s workload in the eyes and took-in a deep breath. Over the weekend (inspired by Friday evening’s concert of noise), my thoughts returned to the Stylophonics project, which I’d tentatively conceived in April of last year. I also purchased an original 1970s version from eBay, in readiness for a more concerted (in every sense of that word) implementation of my plan. This was a solid state version of the current reincarnation (which I own). It permitted an impulsive and sonically iconoclastic fifteen year old to circuit bend and, thereby, create far more beguiling sounds than the instrument was designed to produce:

Overdue research admin beckoned. I’m keen to secure a date for the next 24-hour open studio event at the National Library of Wales, generate magazine interest, and secure reviews for this and my previous sonic endeavours. The unending endeavour to promote the latest CD also needs to move up a gear. ‘What more could I be doing in these respects?’, is a question that rings out constantly.

1.40 pm: After lunch, I went to the Cledwyn Building, on campus, to attend a Graduate Sub-Committee and discuss External Examiner protocols:

15.00 pm: Home. Studiology. The extraction of ‘blind’ from the New Testament discs continued, interspersed with postgraduate admin. The process of discovering the word on the disc is painfully slow and repetitive. In the analogue world, there’re rarely shortcuts. By the close of afternoon, I’d got to the end of Luke, and the beginning of the Stylophonics set-up. (This is a tentative embarkation.)

7.30 pm: Into John’s gospel and onto the table top with the Stylophone effectors:

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