In April last year I set out on a mission to record my daily life — both the habitual and the remarkable — with the aim of releasing a new mixtape from this material, complete with written audio descriptions, every month for a year.

One full rotation around the Sun later, I’ve made some physical mementos to mark this endeavour, The Book of Commonplace mixtape and zine (out 13th June 2025), and the accompanying CD album, Time is a Succession of Such Shapes (out 6th August 2025).

The Book of Commonplace traces the quiet accumulation of time. Sounds gathered in passing—a purring cat, a cassette click, birds in the hedge, jam on toast—settle beside soft electronics and modular phrases that flicker, pulse, and dissolve. These pieces feel less composed than uncovered, like they surfaced naturally through repetition and attention. Melodies drift through rooms, textures catch on the edges of memory. What was once incidental becomes luminous. Across shifting moods and tones, the mixtape moves like a season slowly changing its mind. A landscape of small signals and refracted rituals, humming with the quiet magic of what might have gone unnoticed.

Each cassette cover is hand-finished with a pressed flower from my garden, just outside the door of the Cottage Studio where I compose, and comes with a 24-page full-colour A6 zine of liner notes. The digital download is split into two 30-minute sides, and is available with or without a print copy of the zine.

The BIGGEST SHOUT OUT IN THE UNIVERSE to all the wonderful subscribers to the Cottage Studio, without whose support this project could not have happened.

Thank you to Dave Stitch, Laura Cannell, Felicity Jones, Martha Meek, Connie, Isla & Evie, Frankie Conyngham, Una Lee, Wife Imitates Art, Sef & Angela et al, for their sonic contributions over the lifetime of the project.

Thanks to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital which helped me with the framing, ‘because the small things are too mundane, and the rest is too astounding.’