Each drawing is an inverted impression of music made with a ball-point pen on an A4 piece of paper. Some are drawn live at gigs and later elaborated on, others bookend a session of insomnia, others blend the two. For this reason, the descriptions are a combination of dates, venues, song titles and artists: translations keeping watch and time over a myriad focus points, inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms: ‘(the ear tells the eye where to look).’ {1}