Touched upon briefly in my last blog post, I have been struggling to tie my ideas together, or even to find the next thread to pull. It seems as though I am coming to the end of this thematic cul-de-sac and am genuinely surprised to find a dead end.

Maybe there’s more directions to go in, but I certainly can’t for the life of me find anything interesting.

It’s deeply frustrating, I struggled in vain for weeks upon weeks to find a topic that invigorated me, failed to do so, decided instead to research something arbitrary that seemed to have a lot of depth, and now it seems as though that has failed me as well. This seems to be a problem about how I approach academic thinking, there must be a more elegant approach than brute forcing a topic that one soon falls out of touch with.

For next term I really hope that I can find a better way of doing things. I think one of the ways of doing this is consuming more sound art – I plan on going to more exhibitions and reading more about sound art in the new year to see how others deal with these dilemmas, and I reckon that that may be enough of a tip off to get me out of my rut. Otherwise this will become a serious degree-risking situation.