This post is later than intended.

I have spent a lot of time speaking to myself over the past couple of weeks. My evening runs have slowed to walks and I take my microphone with me; those were not good recordings but I needed the practice of speaking the pieces.

I recorded over and over, opting to work in my car as it was the quietest place that I could access due to lockdown restrictions. I had to record at night when traffic was stopped and people were quiet. The rooster next door had other plans, as did the smaller birds.

I spoke, I swore, I spoke some more. I recorded for hours and lost the audio as my computer over heated. I borrowed my partners professional microphone and used that instead.

I edited.

The works did not flow from my mouth as easy as I would have liked, so I re-wrote them. And re-spoke them. Over and over.

I don't have space for them all but there are some singles here:

I edited some together as material groups, below are some examples:

I don't know whether to leave these as clusters or to create a large audio piece of the book format. I will try both and decide for the exhibition.

I like the idea of creating a piece that could be dipped in and out of, if it was in a physical gallery space it would be on a loop, so audience members would pick up headphones and join the track at the moment it was playing rather than at the beginning or the end.