(There was a piece in the Guardian on Friday about Bert Jansch where he talks about the strange life of Jackson Frank.)

James has had flu in Cambridge but his friends seem to have looked after him and now Yvonne has been struck down with something. Vita is away at Centre Parks with a friend for the weekend. I am taking things slowly.

Gavin Gribbon has written in the wake of an e-mail suggesting that he would enjoy Video Acts. Fortunately he really liked some of the pieces � not the same ones that I picked up on so much but that just makes the point about what an incredible show it was. He also enthuses about Eva Hesse which I was foolish enough to miss and reports to a trip to Tanworth.

I drove past a signpost thither on my way from getting my car serviced in Stratford to the office � just past Henley in Arden. The countryside thereabouts is very very pretty. It�s the north side of the upper Vale of Evesham where the Midlands high plateau has been eroded away into valleys and ridges which are still quite heavily wooded in parts � remnants of the Forest of Arden.

Gavin says he read Ian M�s anthology while he was on holiday in the South of France. He has included articles from Record Collector � one on the Funk Brothers, one on Jeff Buckley and one on Davy Graham.

The DG one has a great story about how Bob Monkhouse (the comedian) financed the demo recording session for the guitarist and sent the discs to a lot of his contacts including Ted Heath, George Martin, Norrie Paramour and Johnnie Dankworth. The result was some radio bookings and the first recording contract. Maybe this is also how DG ended up in the film, The Servant.?

The article also reports that Ken Russell made a film in 1959 called Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts which included Julian Bream, Bert Weedon, Davy Graham, Lonnie Donegan . Martin Carthy can still remember Graham�s inspiring contribution to the programme � a contrapunctal blues. There is also a good quote from Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band saying that DG is the first person he ever heard play more than one line at a time on the guitar.

Back in Gfd I have been experimenting with undertones using a piano. I use high notes to trigger sympathetic vibrations on the lower strings. Perhaps a whole tone scale will trigger vibrations on a lower dominant seventh chord built on any of its constituent notes? I wonder if I can record these sympathetic vibrations? In a similar vein I have found a path to create quite rich chords in Wavelab from the overtone series of a single note- perhaps there is a piece made from these chords?

Seeing David Cunningham�s selection of films at the Electric Cinema on Thursday has sent be back into his CD ROM �Is this a sentence� � taking the more interactive exploratory paths that the work makes available. Perhaps this work follows the rubric that he discussed on Thursday � offering structure as a vehicle in which the �user�s� expressive predispositions can link onto. With a CD-ROM the duration of any interaction with the work is at the user�s discretion. I can drop into it for five minutes in the office for example.

A pretty inactive weekend, but why not?

I met Eike at the supermarket. She said that in her will Regan had asked for her belongings to be shared out amongst her family and friends, so we went round to her flat after church and I picked out some things which I thought might prolong her impact on the development of my thinking. At its simplest this is a way that a culture can transmit and reproduce itself. This sombre mood carried over when I came across a final e-mail interview with Ian Macdonald done at the beginning of August.