Heading into the home stretch for uni now - handed in our major work for Introducing Audio Production tonight and listened through to everyone's work - wow. So many amazing things. I'm really really sad to be leaving now cos I want to do more audio subjects - I've learnt so much in AP this semester and can't wait to start playing round with it and want to learn more. But my brain is exhausted and I think the sensible thing to do is to take the Grad Dip and run. I'll certainly be keeping in touch with the dis_orientation crowd though and hope to work on something to perform when I get back from Europe. But for the first time pretty much in my life, I actually have a reason to stay - just when I'm finally getting out! Between AP, Aesthetics and the sound collective, my poor battered brain has had a real injection of creativity and is starting to spark back into life again. Oh well - I'm going to look on the next six months as a chance to give it a bit of a rest from the tedious everyday stuff and a chance to focus more on art, which it does best.

Anyway, finished the draft for my essay last week, but obviously still researching away like mad. I'd thought a while back that I should read some of Gilles Deleuze's work cos his name keeps on coming up, but had never got around to it - and lo and behold, look what turned up in the window of the Co-op Bookshop on the weekend: his "Difference and repetition" - and I have to say that this is a bloody marvellous book. So interesting, so (comparatively - for philosophy) easy and enjoyable to read. I'm really enjoying it - and picking up some good bits and pieces for my essay... although it seems that some of my "original" ideas concerning repetition were actually had by friend Gilles in the 1960s. Oh well. At least it confirms my thoughts were on the right track!

# posted by minim @ 3:35 PM