Inspired by justin hopper’s failure to update his blog I have decided that we must share our latest schemes and notions with the world, which is to say you, since you are the only person who will read this. We (that is to say MESHMASS) have been working away as usual on the monthly subscription releases, and sent out an e-mail circular seeking subscribers with the opportunity to download ‘maymass 2016’ free. some might think that 2 hours of meshmass is enough for a year – or indeed a lifetime – but some might not, and it is to these rare few we sought to appeal. But apart from this entirely normal behaviour we have also engaged in playing live at the open house in brighton and in remote internet collaborations with European poets Karin Tarobochia (austria), Henry Koek and Catherine Estrade (france) and scots exile Dave Migman in italy. Similarly, we have a sort of song made remotely with ‘crayola lectern’ supplying words, piano and vocals. this acts as a sort of response to the national vote against european co-operation which we have just been through. They have all been surprising and worthwhile, and we may seek to make a release out of them in due course. Further spoken word/vocal collaborations are planned. In terms of our own production we have embarked on a new phase of using saxophone improvisations to generate ableton material to use as the basis for yer actual meshmass, a process which is quite labour intensive, time-consuming and messy (messymass?) but rewarding. It’s time now that we should turn our attention to the ‘junemass 2016’ release: as usual we have no idea what will be on it or how long it will be – except that there will definitely be more than an hour of it and it will be provided to subscribers through the auspices of aural witness and ‘WeTransfer’, a very useful free service I truly recommend. There we are now, I almost feel better.