8.30 am. The publication or release of a new project generates a fair amount of admin: updates of my personal website, external research databases, CV, and so forth. I find it best to act on such matters at the moment of dissemination. (One should keep track of oneself.):

Now that the CD of The Bible in Translation is in production, I have to consider how to promote the work. ‘Getting it out there’ may take as much creative imagination and time as making the work in the first place. And there’s no guarantee that anyone will be sufficiently interested to take the thing up. As an artist who works within an academic context, conferences provide an available platform for launching projects. Thus, generating several papers related to the major composition on the CD, ‘Image and Inscription’, is now the call of the day.

11.30 am. Off to School to conduct an MA fine art tutorial and attend an initiation into the new audio/visual system in the main lecture theatre:

It’s complex but comprehensible. A huge improvement on the previous kit. I’ll need a few hours with it, alone, in order to plum the depth and breadth of its facility.

1.15 pm. At lunchtime, I attended a research conflab about future sound art projects with my colleague Dr Roberts, at Le Figaro:

Afternoon. Back at homebase, I addressed the bilingual requirements of the CD’s cover design and several anomalous positionings on the booklet’s running heads (which only became apparent in PDF scroll-mode. (Sigh!)):

Evening. I’m playing with the idea of two ‘front covers’: one English; one Welsh. This avoids the typographic clutter of running both together within the same typographic layout. The latter can lead to clumsy and inelegant results.

Some observations and principles derived from today’s engagements and activities:

• Act upon the implications of your work.
• Envy no one. You may crave their gifts, graces, opportunities, and celebrity. But could you cope with them yourself?
• What is presently impossible for you may be as clear a vision as any of where you should be heading.
• Or else, what is presently impossible must remain so. For what you cannot do might be what you should not do.
• We proceed from the possible to the impossible with hops and steps, rather than in a single bound.