✬songs that held my attention✬
&
✪my Numark DJ2Go✪
showed up in my practice between 060324 and 061424. Read the most recent entries of audio-visual.journal to reveal how it all connects.
NOTE 2 SELF (and witnesses of audio-visual.journal):
Here are some thoughts I been thinking through about shifts in this public journaling practice:
I’ve had the goal of sharing an entry for each work day since February 2024 (when I released this documentation project as a website) and, regardless of the results, that goal has allowed me to consider that it is worth it to give myself the chance to share something from my practice on a consistent basis. But recently I’ve felt some (self-inflicted…?) pressure with attempting to share daily, and I’m realizing that I may be guiding myself as if public practice means brand new output each day. So, to help relieve some of that pressure, I’m relaxing on the expectation that I need to share something each work day—giving that some silence and making room for other types of noise.
I like the idea that the next step for this project would be to simply organize my website world [i]. Some ideas I’ve been connecting with about how to do that include folk and slow archiving [ii, iii]. I initially had intentions to do this work more privately and then sharing about it once it would “be done,” but allowing for more silence with daily entries makes me think that doing a version of this organizational work through the newsletter is something I’m willing to try and experiment with. A more thought-out introduction of that addition will be in the next newsletter.
That said, daily entries of the main journal will continue just without the goal of sharing something every single day (this is a process-oriented shift not necessarily a results-oriented one, but we’ll see whether this changes the cadence of the entries). The section of the newsletter that highlights the daily entries will remain (so long as daily entries are shared), and will still be released at a bi-/weekly rhythm, along with a new section dedicated to organizing the documentation of audio-visual.journal as a website.
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references:
[i]: “how to build a world: a cyclical guide” by Kening Zhu; this resource is in dialogue with what I’ve learned through Ayana Zaire Cotton’s Seed A World Retreat & her black feminist lens on world-building.
[ii]: “✿ Sheets Sites Tutorial ✿” (00:00 - 04:00) by Chia Amisola (@hotemogf).
[iii]: “Music Video As Black Art, Claiming the B-side: The Project” (3:40 – 8:50) by liquid blackness project.
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