9.00 am: Studiology. Before composition recommenced, I undertook a RAM upgrade on two on my MacBook Pros. The computers are now seven years old. The additional 8GB will not speed up some processes, but will allow large sounds to play in parallel in session mode without digital drop out. My bespoke PC will have 32GB and more than twice the…

For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2.11). 8.00 am: A communion: At times, people of faith are apt to interpret the events of their lives as though they knew God’s mind. The thought that the calamities…

8.15 am: A communion. To begin: A cold, hard stare at the inbox, the ‘list’, and the day’s appointments. Remorseless demands. Mounting ambition. Grim determination. You don’t remain where you are by slacking. And remaining takes far more effort than getting there. What would it possible to do today? Having put writing behind me for a while, I opened the…

7.15–8.30 am: 9.00 am: It takes me exactly 15 minutes to walk from my house to Old College. I began a fairly stiff day of postgraduate teaching and meetings. The morning was dedicated to MA Fine Art tutorials. The students are developing along very different paths, each with a bespoke problem. This is a tutor’s delight, and a challenge to…

8.00 am: A communion. I would like to come away from it all, and have the opportunity to extend my communion over several days. The ‘it all’ is that composite of circumstances, irresolutions, conflicts, distractions, and discouragements that are the stuff of our common-human experience – in different ratios and intensities – throughout life. But winter will give way to…

Friday. 9.30 am: To England and Bristol: I’d been looking forward to seeing Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism at the RWA. ‘Bert’, as he preferred to be called, was my external examiner, when I completed the BA (Hons.) Fine Art at Newport. He was an old-school gentleman: modest, courteous, and genuinely interested in what students had to say about their…

What’s the difference between redundancy and resignation?: In the former instance, they get rid of you; in the latter, you get rid of them. 8.00 am: I felt the onset of Spring for the first time this year. 8.30 pm: I took to the road, and headed for a local eatery to buy something that I could look forward to…

8.15 am: A communion. 9.00 am: As one project comes to a close, another commences. Since I was already in writing mode, I remained in it for a further one thousand words, in order to generate an on-line article about an aspect of my sound research. Research doesn’t promote itself. (Think of all the really good books that nobody reads,…

Saturday enigma; Sunday enigma. He/she ‘who has ears to hear’: 8.30 am: A settling of the week ahead. Tutorials to arrange; admin to accommodate; reviews to sign off; meetings to attend; visiting staff to secure, and screaming research deadlines to meet. 9.00 am: Inbox defoliation and postgraduate admissions to process. 10.30 am: Finally, I’d clawed my way to the top…

Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good (Psalm 25.7). 7.00 am: Breakfast. 7.30 am: A communion. Recently, a number of politicians and celebrities have been publicly vilified and denounced, as crimes and misdemeanours that they committed decades earlier have come to light. The passing…