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John Harvey: sound, image, word

@johnharveyaber

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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Summa: diary (March 1-6, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections March 1 (Sunday). St David’s Day (Cardiff). 9.15 am: Proof of presence. I was in Cardiff for the weekend, as the guest of two friends from Aberystwyth, who’d moved to the city a decade …

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #cardiff #penarth #aberfandisaster

05.03.2026 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (February 23-26, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections February 23 (Monday). At the weekend: rain so fine, it felt like cobwebs on my face; and after the rain, sunlight — like a tender love unannounced, rising slowly when you least expect it. On …

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #walking #Aberystwyth #aberfandisaster #ageing #menshealth

26.02.2026 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (February 14-20, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections February 14 (Saturday). ‘Be my Valentine!, birthday girl’. Love, in absentia. 7.00 am: 1°C. An ambulation, with hands in pockets and my coat-collar turned up. I could count the number o…

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #aberfandisaster #valentinesday #hymns #chinesenewyear #susanforsterartist

20.02.2026 19:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tune in to my special Fundraising show @resonancefm.bsky.social today at 16:00. In among the chaotic layers of sound you will hear many uplifting messages of good will and peace to all men. Please donate to keep this excellent radio station on tha air!

14.02.2026 11:32 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Summa: diary (February 9-13, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections The world, the flesh, and the devil. (We make monsters of ourselves.) Francesco Salviati, Left: Serpent and Adam; Right: Adam and Eve (c. 1550-60) pen and brown ink with grey-brown wash and white g…

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#diary #soundart #soundmixing #aberfandisaster #portraiture #ireland

13.02.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (February 1-6, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Folly. February 1 (Sunday). Candlemas. 12.15 pm: Proof of presence. ‘I can hear bird song again!’. Over the weekend, I made trial of my ‘new ears’. With the upper-frequencie…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (February 1-7, 2026)
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#dairy #soundart #soundmixing #writing #aberfandisaster

07.02.2026 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (January 27-30, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Rachel Whiteread, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (2000) Vienna. January 27 (Tuesday). Holocaust Memorial Day. 6.00 am: Writing. 8.30 am: Studyology. I returned to the text for the 144 Variations alb…

John Harvey, Summa: dairy (January 27-30, 2026)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster #hearing

30.01.2026 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Notes on London (January 23-26, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections January 24 (Friday). Aberystwyth – London. 9.30 am: I boarded the train at Aberystwyth for London via Birmingham. Was the man sitting behind me talking on his phone or to himself? A mother br…

John Harvey, Notes on London (January 23-26, 2026)
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#diary #London #V&A #Turner&Constable #travel

27.01.2026 09:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Summa: diary (January 17-22, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections January 17 (Saturday). 7.45 am: An ambulation across the Promenade and to the summit of Constitution Hill. From here, in September 1982, I first surveyed the town that would become my home for the …

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 17-22, 2026)
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#dairy #Aberfandisaster #soundart #Aberystwyth #friendship #artteaching

22.01.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (January 10-16, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections ‘This is the day’. January 10 (Saturday). 8.15 am: This is the day when the stone-steps leading up to my front door turned to glass. This is the day when, all at once, thousands of star…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 10-16, 2026)
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#diary #soundart #Aberfandisaster #snow #digitalphotography #popart #spaceexploration #ElizabethLloyd

16.01.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (January 3-9, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections Please, be patient; the words will come to me. January 3 (Saturday). 6.00 am: ‘Moontide’, while the town still slumbered: 9.15 am: The pink-tinted sky of the after-dawn gave way to a su…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 3-9, 2026)
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#diary #snow #soundart #JamesJoyce #death #hospital #landscape

09.01.2026 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Summa: diary (January 1-2, 2026) – John Harvey: Intersections I walk backwards into the future. [December 20-30, 2025.] This was my Christmas: [December 31 (Wednesday).] New Year’s Eve. I leave this year in the hands of the ‘Brominix’ &#8212…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (January 1-2, 2026)
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#diary #Christmas #NewYear #Weather

03.01.2026 09:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Many thanks for all your thoughtful and heart felt work on the program this year.

20.12.2025 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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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20.12.2025 12:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 13-19, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #soundcomposition #Aberfandisaster #Aberystwyth #stars #Christmas

19.12.2025 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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To all my Bluesky followers: Season's Greetings (Cyfarchion y Tymor)

18.12.2025 10:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 6-12, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #Aberfandisaster #walking #deathofchildren

12.12.2025 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (December 1-5, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster

06.12.2025 06:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 15-28, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #aberfandisaster #death #Salem

29.11.2025 06:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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 …

John Harvey, Notes on Norwich (Revisited) (November 20-23, 2025)

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#dairy #Norwich #SainsburyCentre #travel

25.11.2025 07:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: dairy (November 15-19, 2025)
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#dairy #Aberyswyth #AnastasiaWildig #PhDFineArt #Aberfandisaster

21.11.2025 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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 …

John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 8-14, 2025)
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15.11.2025 09:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 1-7, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #death #remembrance #AllSaintsDay #AllSoulsDay #Aberfandisaster

07.11.2025 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025)
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#diary #memorabilia #decluttering #modelrailways #musiclboxes #soundart #aberfandisaster

31.10.2025 11:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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 …

John Harvey, Addendum: 'Rosebud'
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#diary #memoralia #parents #death #CitizenKane #Rosebud

31.10.2025 11:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best wishes

30.10.2025 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Aberfan (October 21, 1966)' digital-conversion-failure photograph, Aberystwyth (October 21, 2025).

21.10.2025 09:22 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 11-17, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #selfanalysis #aberfandisaster #oldcollegeaberystwyth #friendship #past #autoiography

17.10.2025 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 1-10, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix #electricguirar #digitalglitch #friendship #AberystwythUniversity

10.10.2025 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 27-30, 2025)
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#diary #aberystwythuniversity #soundart #jimihendrix

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