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John Harvey: sound, image, word
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I'm a practitioner and historian of sound and visual art and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales. Views are my own.

Main website: https://johnharvey.org.uk/
Sound website: https://johnharvey.bandcamp.com/
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Tune in at 16:00 this PM to hear the last Sound Projector radio show of the year. It's a tribute to all the great musicians who sadly passed away in 2025.
Broadcast on @resonancefm.bsky.social as usual.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 13-19, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #soundcomposition #Aberfandisaster #Aberystwyth #stars #Christmas
Summa: diary (December 13-19, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
December 13 (Saturday). The ideal endures because it has never been tested against reality. 7.15 am: I was led by a bright-star into the town, passed illuminated Christmas trees and decorated domes…
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December 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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To all my Bluesky followers: Season's Greetings (Cyfarchion y Tymor)
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 6-12, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #Aberfandisaster #walking #deathofchildren
Summa: dairy (December 6-12, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
December 6 (Saturday). ‘An old blues’; a new muse. 7.15 am: An ambulation, from St David’s Road, down Llanbadarn Road, to Northgate Street to Great Darkgate Street, down Pier Stre…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 1-5, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster
Summa: diary (December 1-5, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
Might you have already had the happiest days of your life, without knowing it? December 1 (Monday). 6.30 am: Proof of presence/morningtide. 7.00 am: A communion. 8.15 am: Writing and self-reflectio…
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December 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 15-28, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster #death #Salem
Summa: diary (November 25-28, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
‘In the end, John, it’s all stubble and straw ‘ (Marilynne Robinson, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA (April 16, 2011)). November 25 (Tuesday). 6.30 am: Blisteringly cold in th…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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John Harvey, Notes on Norwich (Revisited) (November 20-23, 2025)

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#dairy #Norwich #SainsburyCentre #travel
Notes on Norwich (Revisited) (November 20-23, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
November 20 (Thursday). Aberystwyth to Norwich. 8.30 am: A return to Norwich, where I spent part of my summer holiday this year. (See: Notes on East Anglia II  (July 19-25, 2025) and Notes on …
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November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: dairy (November 15-19, 2025)
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#dairy #Aberyswyth #AnastasiaWildig #PhDFineArt #Aberfandisaster
Summa: diary (November 15-19, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
‘If your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!’ (Matthew 6.23) 6.30 am: Morntingtide. Lookin…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 8-14, 2025)
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Summa: diary (November 8-14, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
These days, I receive answers to questions that I haven’t even asked. November 8 (Saturday). 5.30 am: I awoke with a pain around my ankle. On inspection, it was red with a distinct epicenter …
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November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 1-7, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #death #remembrance #AllSaintsDay #AllSoulsDay #Aberfandisaster
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025)
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#diary #memorabilia #decluttering #modelrailways #musiclboxes #soundart #aberfandisaster
Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
October 25 (Saturday). I’m alive! 7.30 am: The morning ambulation, against the wind and in semi-darkness: invigorating and comforting. 9.00 am: Back home, Harvey the Younger — who&#8217…
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October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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John Harvey, Addendum: 'Rosebud'
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#diary #memoralia #parents #death #CitizenKane #Rosebud
Addendum: ‘Rosebud’ – John Harvey: Intersections
While digging in my basement recently*, excavating what had been forgotten and removing what should no longer be there, my ‘pit-helmet’s lamp’ alighted upon a small cardboard box …
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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'Aberfan (October 21, 1966)' digital-conversion-failure photograph, Aberystwyth (October 21, 2025).
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 11-17, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #selfanalysis #aberfandisaster #oldcollegeaberystwyth #friendship #past #autoiography
Summa: diary (October 11-17, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
October 11 (Saturday). ‘Do you demand enough of yourself, John?’ 8.15 am: An ambulation, passed places of personal significance, silent sea, and the railway station where, this time las…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 1-10, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix #electricguirar #digitalglitch #friendship #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (October 1-10, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
And then I began to breath again. October 1 (Wednesday). Yom Kippur [יוֹם כִּפּוּר]. 7.30 am: Proof of presence. 8.00 am: Writing. The previous ‘Summa’ was for a 3-day period only, so t…
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October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 27-30, 2025)
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#diary #aberystwythuniversity #soundart #jimihendrix
Summa: diary (September 27-30, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 27 (Saturday). 8.00 am: A Saturday ambulation along the Promenade. The 6.00 am low tide had begun to rise, and transform into a flood tide. In the middle distance, surfers lay prone on th…
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October 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 22-26, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix
Summa: diary (September 22-26, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 22 (Monday). Equinox. 7.30 am: An ambulation to buy milk. An autumnal chill. A hurry home. 8.30 am: Getting back into gear, writing, and illustrating last week’s blog. 9.00 am: Stud…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 13-20, 2025)
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#dairy #departure #HayOnWye #chestnuts #familynames #CorYLlyn #books #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (September 13-20, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
When we cannot bear our present, we take refuge in our past.In a bad way, in a bad place, at a bad time.A farewell is like a small-death. September 13 (Saturday). 8.00 am: An ambulation into town, …
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September 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (7-12, 2025)
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#diary #coalmining #AberfanDisaster #soundart #Lazarus #IlltydDavid #AberystwythUniversity #Bliana
Summa: dairy (September 7-12, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 7, 2025 (Sunday). 6.00 am: Awake. 11.30 am: Harvey the Younger returned to his home. (He left behind the lingering smell of strong deodorant.) 3.00 pm: The UK government issued a trial &#…
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September 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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John Harvey, Notes on Abertillery, Newport, Aberfan, and Cardiff (September 1-5, 2025)

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#diary #Abertillery #newportwales #CardiffCity #aberfandisaster #Caerleon #travel #sixbellscolliery #ErnieZobole #paintingart
Notes on Abertillery, Newport, Aberfan, and Cardiff (September 1-5, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 1 (Monday) Aberystwyth-Abertillery. 5.30 am: Awake. Although, I’d first ‘awoke’ at 2.00 am. Someone was playing the piano downstairs, I thought. But since the only pianist in the ho…
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September 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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"Read your brilliant [Sun Ra] comic yesterday. It was funny, precise, informative and a flight of the imagination all in one. A brilliant piece of work." - @patrickwray.bsky.social

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#SunRa
September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 24-29, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #AberfanDisaster #JosephParry #AberystwythHymn #localhistory #ArtistsValley #AberystwythUniversity #typewriters #CrumlinViaduct
Summa: diary (August 24-29, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
And in these difficult times … August 24 (Sunday). 9.00 am: Ambulation 1: There were crocodiles on Plasgrug Avenue. These colourful creatures were made by a local origami enthusiast to serve …
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August 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August16-22, 2025)
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#dairy #aberystwythuniversity #aberystwyth #AberfanDisaster #SoundArt #hymns
Summa: diary (August 16-22, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
What in myself have I hidden from myself? August 16 (Saturday). An abundance of cooking apples in the garden. The anticipation of crumbles and tarts to come. 7.00 am: A morning ambulation across th…
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August 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 11-15, 2025)
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#dairy #AberfanDisaster #soundart #victimsnames #uprightpiano #typewriter #tempusfugit #mortality #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (August 11-15, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
The cogency of an idea can be tested only through its implemention. August 11 (Monday). Over the weekend, I enjoyed ‘chatch-up’ with Dr Carmen Mills, who’s one of my former PhD Fi…
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August 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 1-8, 2025)
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#Hiroshima #AberfanDisaster #soundart #clouds #OrdfordNess #StormFloris #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (August 1-8, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
Some things remain unrealisable for reasons that you may not be able to understand right now. August 1 (Friday). 6.00 am: Proof of presence. 6.15 am: The launch of the blog-set about my recent adve…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM