…of previous work and future work, and the sounds I have produced and the sounds I might in the future produce.
…of Autumnal treasure, form and function, and the process of designing the Walk 2012 guidebook.
…of Messy Tuesdays, sorting out piles of paper, questioning and exploring the practice of Pauline Oliveros, and Deep Listening.
…of hand-drawing, careful listening, fortuitous discoveries, Craft NI, and the discovery that sometimes when things go wrong, they end up going right.
…of the Arty Street Party; Soundmaps; Tuned City; Sonic Cupcakes; Turbans; Eccentricity; and so many amazing sounds.
…of making the stamps for A Knitter’s Manifesto feat. valley views, Welsh blues and greens, and homemade stamp glue.
…of non-sonic reasons for making field recordings and sounds as a socio-political-imaginative currency.
…of moving the sounds around, engaging the public, creating new kinds of discussions about sounds, and playing in the streets in a new way.
…of Tallinn, tuning the city, and finding the local phonographic lore in strange lands, through creative practices.
…of knitting, hat-patterns, Huntley & Palmer’s factory, biscuits, BISKITS, Victorian brickwork, water-powered flour mills and other glorious digressions.
…of working lives, oral histories, the power of story, Joe Stevens’ Our Working Lives project, and Poole.
…of biscuit factories, working lives, working clothes, and what to wear to community art events.
…of sonic meta-data, meta-data badges, meta-tags for another year, and the beginnings and endings of many things.
…of John Cage, mycology, mushroom spotting, wandering in The New Forest with my beloved, and getting rained on.