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John Harvey: sound, image, word
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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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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 8-14, 2025)
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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 …
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November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (November 1-7, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #death #remembrance #AllSaintsDay #AllSoulsDay #Aberfandisaster
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 25-31, 2025)
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#diary #memorabilia #decluttering #modelrailways #musiclboxes #soundart #aberfandisaster
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…
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October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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John Harvey, Addendum: 'Rosebud'
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#diary #memoralia #parents #death #CitizenKane #Rosebud
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 …
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 18-24, 2025)
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#diary #aberfandisaster #soundart #aberfancommemoration #Abertillery #Blaina #health #brassbands
Summa: diary (October 18-24, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
October 18 (Saturday). Many windows close together.* ‘What makes you unhappy?’ I reply: misunderstandings; forgiveness withheld; an apology scorned; an unacknowledged gift; an unrespond…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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'Aberfan (October 21, 1966)' digital-conversion-failure photograph, Aberystwyth (October 21, 2025).
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 11-17, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #selfanalysis #aberfandisaster #oldcollegeaberystwyth #friendship #past #autoiography
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…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (October 1-10, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix #electricguirar #digitalglitch #friendship #AberystwythUniversity
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…
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October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 27-30, 2025)
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#diary #aberystwythuniversity #soundart #jimihendrix
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…
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October 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 22-26, 2025)
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#dairy #soundart #Aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix
Summa: diary (September 22-26, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 22 (Monday). Equinox. 7.30 am: An ambulation to buy milk. An autumnal chill. A hurry home. 8.30 am: Getting back into gear, writing, and illustrating last week’s blog. 9.00 am: Stud…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (September 13-20, 2025)
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#dairy #departure #HayOnWye #chestnuts #familynames #CorYLlyn #books #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (September 13-20, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
When we cannot bear our present, we take refuge in our past.In a bad way, in a bad place, at a bad time.A farewell is like a small-death. September 13 (Saturday). 8.00 am: An ambulation into town, …
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September 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (7-12, 2025)
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#diary #coalmining #AberfanDisaster #soundart #Lazarus #IlltydDavid #AberystwythUniversity #Bliana
Summa: dairy (September 7-12, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 7, 2025 (Sunday). 6.00 am: Awake. 11.30 am: Harvey the Younger returned to his home. (He left behind the lingering smell of strong deodorant.) 3.00 pm: The UK government issued a trial &#…
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September 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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John Harvey, Notes on Abertillery, Newport, Aberfan, and Cardiff (September 1-5, 2025)

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#diary #Abertillery #newportwales #CardiffCity #aberfandisaster #Caerleon #travel #sixbellscolliery #ErnieZobole #paintingart
Notes on Abertillery, Newport, Aberfan, and Cardiff (September 1-5, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
September 1 (Monday) Aberystwyth-Abertillery. 5.30 am: Awake. Although, I’d first ‘awoke’ at 2.00 am. Someone was playing the piano downstairs, I thought. But since the only pianist in the ho…
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September 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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"Read your brilliant [Sun Ra] comic yesterday. It was funny, precise, informative and a flight of the imagination all in one. A brilliant piece of work." - @patrickwray.bsky.social

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#SunRa
September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 24-29, 2025)
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#diary #soundart #AberfanDisaster #JosephParry #AberystwythHymn #localhistory #ArtistsValley #AberystwythUniversity #typewriters #CrumlinViaduct
Summa: diary (August 24-29, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
And in these difficult times … August 24 (Sunday). 9.00 am: Ambulation 1: There were crocodiles on Plasgrug Avenue. These colourful creatures were made by a local origami enthusiast to serve …
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August 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August16-22, 2025)
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#dairy #aberystwythuniversity #aberystwyth #AberfanDisaster #SoundArt #hymns
Summa: diary (August 16-22, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
What in myself have I hidden from myself? August 16 (Saturday). An abundance of cooking apples in the garden. The anticipation of crumbles and tarts to come. 7.00 am: A morning ambulation across th…
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August 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 11-15, 2025)
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#dairy #AberfanDisaster #soundart #victimsnames #uprightpiano #typewriter #tempusfugit #mortality #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (August 11-15, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
The cogency of an idea can be tested only through its implemention. August 11 (Monday). Over the weekend, I enjoyed ‘chatch-up’ with Dr Carmen Mills, who’s one of my former PhD Fi…
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August 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (August 1-8, 2025)
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#Hiroshima #AberfanDisaster #soundart #clouds #OrdfordNess #StormFloris #AberystwythUniversity
Summa: diary (August 1-8, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
Some things remain unrealisable for reasons that you may not be able to understand right now. August 1 (Friday). 6.00 am: Proof of presence. 6.15 am: The launch of the blog-set about my recent adve…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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John Harvey, Notes on East Anglia I (July 14-18, 2025)
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#Oakham #WickenFen #Ely #iconoclasm #Cambridge #Polar #FantinLatour #supernatural #churches ##AberystwythUniversity
Notes on East Anglia I (July 14-18, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
July 14, (Monday). Aberystwyth-Oakham. Ceredigion to Rutland. 9.00 am: Grey sky, a sprinkling of rain, and a light wind have followed the last two-day’s heatwave. Welcomed with gratitude. The…
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August 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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John Harvey, Notes on East Anglia II (July 19-25, 2025)
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#travelogue #Ely #Hasketon #BuryStEdmunds #OrfordNess #atomicweapons #Woodbridge #SuttonHoo #Aldeburgh #Norwich #London #supernatural #churches #JulianOfNorwich #cathedrals #AberUniversity
Notes on East Anglia II (July 19-25, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
July 19 (Saturday). Ely to Hasketon. Cambridgeshire to Suffolk. The second half of a holiday usually proceeds at twice the speed of the first, in my experience. However, on this occasion, my days w…
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August 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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John Harvey, Notes on East Anglia III (July 26-30, 2025)
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#Oakham #WickenFen #Ely #iconoclasm #Cambridge #Polar #FantinLatour #supernatural #churches ##AberystwythUniversity
Notes on East Anglia III (July 26-30, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
July 26 (Saturday). Norwich to Sheringham. 10.00 am: I enjoyed a second iced-hot chocolate at yesterday’s cafe, before my final amble around the market district and Lower Goat Street. 11.00 a…
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August 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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To my astonishment, I sold another copy of Henrietta last Thursday. It's a full-colour comic, an epic picaresque adventure from the 1990s, which I finally was able to put into print recently. Still available from me directly!
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July 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (July 7-10, 2025)
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#diary #aberfandisaster #JimiHendrix #7_7Londonbombing #soundart #shortwaveradio #noisemusic #electricguitar
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Summa: diary (July 7-10, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
Being in command of myself. That’s the thing. July 7 (Monday). 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings. 5.45 am: Awake. 6.30 am: A communion. 7.15 am: Writing. 8.00 am: Studiology. On Sat…
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July 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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July 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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John Harvey, Summa: diary (July 1-4, 2025)
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#diary #AberfanDisaster #soundart #soundtorture #soundpostcards #GoldenGateBridge #aberystwythuniversity
Summa: diary (July 1-4, 2025) – John Harvey: Intersections
The Age of Slight. July 1 (Tuesday). 7.00 am: Proof of presence. Over the weekend, I watched (for the umpteenth time) Tomas Alfredson’s film adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor,…
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July 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM