ANTILOG_14June26a

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ANTILOG_14June26a

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2026-06-14 12:33:51

- As always, I've been hard at work sine my last antilog; I've been doing a lot of work in the archive which I think I must have mentioned in my last instalment; I've still been regularly recording and publishing my Atmospheric Tone field recordings from outside the studio, as I say "in the field"; meanwhile, "in the laboratory", I've been as I said doing archival work, remasteringold recordings from 30+ years ago, putting them online as YouTube videos; I'm officially on hiatus until further notice, though I'm still actively at work, just not spending much time on social media other than posting a few things here and there;

2026-06-14 14:33:24

- I was interrupted by an important phone call; as I was saying, I've been making field recordings plus also eniching my understanding of sound and music, as though I wasn't knowledgeable enough; one must maintain one's "acquisitions", if you will, the knowledge and abilities that one has acquired; otherwise, it's kind of like muscle tone, it will be lost over time if nothing is done to maintain it; in any case, I have been rereading important documents on sound design theory, trying to integrate as much of it as possible at a deeper lever than ever;
- I was going to say before I was interrupted that I have also been recording some videos; here is something I just recorded and put online; I personally think this is one of my biggest accomplishments; I remember hearing Clayton Christensen say something maybe even more than once in interviews on YouTube, that you only really needed one good theory in life or in business or whatnot; this is my "one good theory", the General Theory of The Art Operation: 

- I also made another video much earlier on in the day, from a field recording I took at 04:21, a recording of what I call Atmospheric Tone, which I think I talked about the other day; I realize now that this is a practical realization of my design concept from over a decade ago of the Historiomic Hypervisor, which was a device to take "moral temperature readings", through the creation of "moraltempcards" in a "moraltempcard system";

- I'm actually working on a new project of late which I'm actually tentatively calling - codename! - The Anatomy of Aesthetic Problems; I've been going over my research notes and reading some critical texts on modern art, on modernism, part of what I'm calling Picasso Studies; reading some old books on Picasso that I've never read before and that are really helping me understand the individual; I'm rereading Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love and just devouring it; as I said, I've been going over my old sound design fundamentals, what I learned in school about sound and sound design, audio recording/editing, all that fun stuff;
- I've been doing archival work at The Historiotheque; that's it for now, I've got a lot of stuff in the works right now, I just found out I had a copy (in French) of Kafka's Diaries;

2026-06-14 16:28:06

- I've been getting back into my study of the work of late William S. Burroughs, especially his work with the cut-up technique; I'm currently listening to a lecture he gave on the subject; my documentation methods are always changing, that is to say, I've got a pretty big inventory of methods that I've been integrating more and more over the last few decades and I'm switching them up a great deal; I don't like to have a routine that's too strict; I need to have a wide range of solutions and then choose what I need from the inventory; in the process of researching Burroughs and some other stuff, I made another field recording, or Atmospheric Tone recording:

- I want to write more about how I discovered that hyperreflexive design is actually a MODE of reflexive design; to me that's just an amazing discovery, an amazing thought; and I know it goes deeper than that; I can already see the "envelope" (I am starting to think of things in terms of envelope(s) more and more, but more on that at a later date; trying to do continuous review, sometimes adversarial but not always; I am extremely adversarial in that regard, though, it's why I do pre-mortem analyses of everything; my review is more retrospective than prospective, though, I mean technically I can't review the future; I'm still thinking about "being-in-time" as a concept; I will have to go back into that; I found a really great textbook I've had for years on Sonic Design; trying to read through it; it had like 12 bookmarks in different places.