Calm, cool conditions were conducive to a clear and crisp recording, marred only by my perennial foe during recent efforts - software glitches, cutting out the audio! I had a chance to reflect at a conference yesterday on the nature of these sensory undertakings, the registers and durations that they speak to. Glitches themselves manifest across multiple durations, and begin to inscribe their marks long before they become apparent on recorded media. The deep, granular hardware incompatibilities that will forever prevent this computer from generating a clear image were established several years ago, when it was first built, and will now be registered in this archive for as long as it is sustained. There's something pleasing about this - a sense of material traces across time that the usual quest for the perfect image (the perfect sensory recording) would otherwise strive to eliminate. There are long histories of Western onto-epistemic-political imperatives at work here, and these are now manifest in the technologies and techniques that delivered the signal processing behind our digital world - along with its surrounding marking rhetoric of perfect reproduction, and seamless, immaterial operation. The computing of angels.

All this observed - I am presently dredging up an unusably 'glitched' computer that, nevertheless, once gave vastly better recordings than the more modern machine used here. I hope it might deliver a clearer image for the next pass, in 30 minutes time!