Robert Fripp's Diary

Bredonborough New reading of the

07.29

Bredonborough.

New reading of the morning: Notes from the Green Room: Coping With Stress and Anxiety in Musical Performance by Paul  G Salmon and  Robert G Meyer. (Jossey-Bass 1998)
http://www.thattechnicalbookstore.com/b0608251704.htm

accompanied by Bartok & Beeethoven. Now, accompanied by drilling as the electrician immediately below my feet is repositioning electric sockets for the new bookshelves which will, very soon, be placed against the wall.

12.26 The new bookshelves in the cellar are in two shades of red, as throughout

 the house, except the colour shades are reversed. As the other bookshelves in the cellar have the shades the other (and appropriate) way, these just don’t settle. They don’t quite jar but there is no satisfaction, no sense of rightness, in looking at them.

This is a pity, a disappointment. My two days of intended quiet & solitary centering, arriving home & dealing with jet lag, have been given over to carpenters fitting new shelves at home and in World HQ, over the road. So, I have had neither recuperative time nor the proper bookshelves fitted.

This shows a lack of attention to detail. Detail for me is quite a lot. Detail is the last 10% of any project and, as perceived, is equal to the preceding 90%.

16.36  One of the two new bookshelf units at World HQ also has its colours reversed.

On the door of the room, where the shelves are being fitted, I have attached on both sides of the door large notices: Please keep this door closed. In addition, I have asked him to keep the doors closed. On each occasion that the young fitter has left, he has left the door open. This for me is more a problem of personal comprehension than finding the door open: why does an intelligent young man look at prominent notices and not see them? Perhaps I should change the notices & re-write them with the words: Please keep this door closed. Maybe that would work. Or maybe I should change the young fitter.

An afternoon of practicing & new reading: THE PERFECT WRONG NOTE: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self By William Westney (Amadeus Press 2003).

http://www.pianoatpepper.com/catalog/art_PiWestneysPerfectOtwell.jsp

20.34  More practising. Now, done.