ARS have sent a huge lorry driven by a really nice Hungarian guy who doesn’t
speak a word of English and has been super struggling with this massive machine
and Tower Hamlets parking zones all night not to mention getting a cup of tea.
But the early morning sun revives spirits and we strap our tiny load into the front of his
huge box with a wing and a prayer and hope all that paper work does the job.
See you on the other side!

We are packing Bed to ship to ARS. The first time it has been abroad and the first time
I have had to pack a work that won’t fit in my suitcase.
Rich Mix had kindly offered flight cases but the cost and amount of time available was
too much so we use bubble wrap and cardboards edges. With the super polished side
panels and polished hard wood tops, this is very time consuming work.

I am happily ensconsed in Bed quietly working on piece for ARS Electronica. Surprise, Bed
won a Distinction in the Digital Musics category, so it has to be shipped out to Linz next
week. In the interim, I shall do things to the piece that I have known that it needs, adding
new phrases, remixing /replacing old ones, removing a few dudds. With six months of
focused work at Annette Works with Alex and David and all those visitors and their feedback,
this concentration alone now is fabulous and I am so fast with it .

Elated but wounded. Moving has its side effects.
We empty the studio and move the Sonic Bed and all its essentials into the Glass Room
at Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road. Good to be back in this stomping ground. I had
a studio at the other end of Brick Lane back in 1998 when you couldn’t get a cup of
coffee down there. Now when I pop out for my first fresh baked bagel, I bump into 2
artist friends I had barely seen since those days, so its all very welcoming and timely.

6 years working with this space just here, and now its time to go.
music for bodies and Annette Works are being kicked out, but the new and local
arts space, Rich Mix, invites us in for a commission and residency with Sonic Bed
in their large, street facing studio, – right into the arms of the public.
Things couldn’t be better.

MIDI be gone.
at last i have a truly musical bit of hardware
and built by an old friend i met 10 years ago
and again was behind something
brilliant found on the web.

visitors come for new bed piece enjoyment.
lots of 24Hz at butt + spine makes them stoned and starving for meat.

great summer heat.
crikey
hot in the bed
i can barely walk after an afternoons making

now i hear nothing from Akram in Beirut.
here our suffering is the blue blue sky and the heat in the city and having to water our window boxes a lot.
who can i contact in the media?
http://beirutupdate.blogspot.com/

i was here yesterday for about 15 minutes.
i had come to return and buy some vibracoustic speakers.
i drove all the way back south thinking of ways of combining them with woofers.