Tag Archives: a-logs

A – Log Week 9

16 hours – reading (This Compost, Neuro, The Midnight, various poetry, The Forge and the Crucible, Creative Mythology, Transcendental Magic, etc).

8 hours – sound design and digital art utilizing granular processing in Ableton Live, Photoshop, and Corel Painter.

16 hours – paper writing, continuation of drafts, peer-review and editing, formatting and final drafts.

8 hours – poetry, journal, nature walks and reveries.

Total hours – 48

A – Log Week 8

16 hours – reading (This Compost, The Forge and the Crucible, The Alchemy Reader, Creative Mythology, Neuro, various poetry, etc).

5 hours – sound design with granular processing in Ableton Live, and digital art.

8 hours – online and library reasearch, reading 3 peer-reviewed articles by MIT Press on granular synthesis and cellular automata (computer systems modeled to reporduce like biological organisms).

12 hours – working on both papers, continuation of outlines and motifs and then first drafts.

Total hours – 41

 

A – Log Week 7

16 hours – reading (The Alchemy Reader, Jung’s Psychology of Alchemy, Creative Mythology, Neuro, This Compost, various poetry, The Forge and the Crucible, The Red Lion, Timeaus).

8 hours – software desing (granular scrubber design in Reaktor programming environment), sound design with granular processing in Ableton Live, and digital art.

5 hours – nature walk, journaling, poetry, and reveries.

8 hours – online and library research.

3 hours – paper outlines and motifs (modeling after The Midnight and This Compost).

Total hours – 40

 

A – Log Week 6

16 hours – reading (The Alchemy Reader, The Forge and the Crucible, Creative Mythology, This Compost, Transcendental Magic, The Red Lion).

10 hours – software design (granular scrubber design in Reaktor programming environment), digital sound design, and art.

5 hours – nature walk, writing poetry, and journal.

5 hours – reviewing notes and doing online research into  esoteric alchemy. Watched documentary on hermetic traditions by Terrence McKenna).

Total hours: 39