... and having Jim Phillips dig out gig posters made for Strange and Buchla

And finding Jason Lim walking his dog through Pollockshields while on the way to interview him.

The first output from this project is soon to be published with Organised Sound, the manuscript is available here:

Ambient Machines: Synthesis in the Domestic Sphere
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

Highlights also include the Ballardian vibe of navigating the Leeds ring road on foot with Chris Haworth on the way to an Autechre gig.

Looking back over interviews is accompanied by the imaginary sound of thousands of pennies dropping and pieces falling into place.

I'm on the lookout for a nice long summer run through the wilderness actually. The local one I had in mind has taken a fallow year. Currently hoping for cancellations so I can squeeze into the Grindleford Gallop: www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?ev...

Do you follow a structured plan preparing for that distance, or just run lots?

A friend of mine did this, think he came 14th, looked wild.

Congratulations Pete, great to see this in print.

Hearing Occam I nestled among six others felt like being led slowly to the kernel, a really enlightening way to hear this work.

Occam XXV was beautiful, I felt like a guild navigator preparing to fold space.

Deep empathy.

Finding the balance between high connectivity and hierarchy is an ongoing challenge in working with these systems.

I think the article also makes an odd argument in that thinking often happens in the practice of note taking, they're not necessarily separate things.

Good soundtrack for this: www.calflyn.com/nonfiction-b...