9.00 am. Off to the department (via the rather desultory, tradesman’s entrance) to switch on the exhibition devices; then on to town to pick up my prescriptions; and then back to home base to work on my SIP scope of the sound archive:

9.30 am. The tasks for the morning are to create a key for the database headings, a list of general subject terms and their sub-categories with which to conduct searches, and a rationalisation of the topic/theme parameters.

My heavy-duty Velcro has arrived. (Joy!):

I now have a compulsion to stick things to other things. [Eat your heart out CW! Not even yellow Frog Tape can top the psycho-perceptual, boundary-breaking potential of this stuff. ‘Klettband, Extra Stark, selbstklebend’!: Doesn’t that make your pulse race?]

12.00 pm. If I work on two projects in parallel, I get further with each than I would if I’d pursued them in series. Once the SIP scoping endeavour was underway, I initiated a small writing task related to a collaborative sound-composition exchange, called Call & Response, which my colleague Dafydd Roberts and I undertook late last year.

1.45 pm. Grim news about job losses and economic cutbacks in the area are carried on the air like a plague. On with the SIP project — diagrammatizing four interrelated topics in order for me (principally) to visualize and conceptualize their connections and permutations:

One of the intriguing aspects of this way of working is discovering the subjects that must necessarily lie between the focal points (S+R, R+L, L+W, and L+S,), as well as upon and across the diagonal dynamics. And, what lies at the central intersection, I wonder?:

6.20 pm. Practise session 1. 7.00 pm. The evening was dedicated to generating a list of words descriptive of concepts related to the cornerstones of the project: supernaturalism, religion, landscape, and Wales. These words will be entered into the sound archive’s search engine.

Reflecting on yesterday’s late afternoon PhD fine art tutorial, and the discussion I had with the student about the contrasting aims of science research and fine art research, I asked myself the question: What is the opposite of knowledge? ‘Ignorance’ is one answer. ‘Mystery’ is another.