Month: May 2020

Silence is not the absence of sound, rather it is an aspect of sound WFH: DAY 55. 8.00 am: A communion. House (detail) #35: 8.30 am: A review of the…

WFH: DAY 54. 6.30 am: Rise. House (detail) #34: I shaved to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 this morning. It’s wonderful forward momentum had me tripping spritely around the bathroom.…

‘Every nation gets the government it deserves‘ (Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)) Certainly, it got the government that the majority of people in the UK believed in implicitly and voted for.…

‘What is truth?’ (John 18.28) WFH: DAY 52. 8.00 am: A communion. 8.45 am: A quick Twitter review and the inbox before settling into the morning’s round of PhD tutorials.…

WFH: DAY 51. Yesterday was a time for putting things away, self-examination, planning future dispositions of the mind and heart, reaffirming determinations, and standing motionless on one spot. I don’t…

‘Be sure your sin will find you out’ (Numbers 32.23) House (detail) #30: WFH: DAY 50. Late yesterday evening, I read a conversation with Carly Berwick, an American sound artist,…

WFH: DAY 49. 8.15 am: A communion. 9.00 am: Fruit tea in hand, I caught-up on residual admin, notifications of classes and tutorials for next week, and student references. (In…

First, the flood; secondly, the fire; thirdly, the plague; and fourthly … . There will be a fourth. WFH: DAY 48. 8.00 am: A communion. 8.40 am: This would be…

WFH: DAY 47. 8.15 am: Doctory matters. Good to keep in touch … to keep on top of things. The surgery’s telephone answering message advised that if I was ‘either…

WFH: DAY 46. 8.15 am A communion. 8.45 am: I wired-up my ‘play’-station and tested the system, so that I could twiddle and click in between tutorials and admin tasks.…