Over the weekend, disc 2 of the double CD was reviewed. One track only needed a sonic massage in order to reduce the excess of upper frequencies that accompanies the hisses and cracks on the roughed-up 78-rpm record composition (‘Erased Messiah Recording’). On Sunday, I attended Holy Trinity Church’s Harvest thanksgiving lunch at the Buarth Hall:

7.00 am: A brittle Autumn morning. Quite the best time of the year. 8.30 am: A review of the night’s inbox deposit, before a review of the week ahead, before a review of the day before me. I like to know and be prepared for what is to come. Back, then, to postgraduate admin, to research admin (returning my revisions of the album tracks to the record producers and ensuring that all contributors to the process of manufacture are working to the same timetable), and to research as such — writing up notes of the SteelWorks project meetings held during the past few weeks. The latter will prepare the way for a grant application:

Over and after lunch, I responded to incoming epistolary missiles that were sent in retaliation to those that I’d launched at correspondents this morning. There’s movement on some fronts; plans are proceeding. In between adminy and textual work, I tweaked several tracks on my sound site to redress left/right balances in the light of my recent experiences of mixing. The eye(aɪ)–ear(ɪə(r)) Facebook page needed a refresh and update, now that there’s the anticipation of events coming up during the next academic year:

Two things entered under the ‘need to do’ category on my ‘things to do’ list: a dedicated website for The Bible in Translation CD, and a conference paper on the ‘Image and Inscription’ suite. Both will be begun this week, hopefully.

6.30 pm: Practise Session 1. Followed by an hour watching Louise Theroux’s documentary on Jimmy Savile. ‘Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing’.  We should be cautious of those who flamboyantly flaunt their good works ‘in order be seen of men’. Calculated evil is often cleverly concealed.

7.40 pm: I dived into designing a cover image for the dedicated CD website. Keep it simple for as long as possible. Good ideas are rarely complex at source. In tandem, I continued rebalancing tracks on my Sound site, and bounced back messages to and from anxious students:

9.30 pm: Much was achieved in one day! Sleep will be sweet.