TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

11:07 AM
Posted by jodi rose

Another day in the gallery. Walked up this morning from home, all fresh and crisp in the morning air. Lots more stencil art on the walls in fitzroy, and lots more engineers visiting the exhibition after I sent out emails targeting the architecture, music and engineering departments. Agatha wrote a lovely review which you can read below.
Giving my artists talk today - it's been good practice sitting the gallery and doing all those interviews, I have a fairly good idea of what people are interested in.

Lachie and Gus came by yesterday and wrote excellent comments in the book
"I think that if you decided to dedicate your existence to seeking these sounds, it would be a life worth living, and a dedication worth lending one's ear to. You go girl!" and
"keep rockin those ropes.... and pullin them strings... to keep the world keen to hear these types of things"
Although I wonder does that imply that if I don't dedicate my life to this it's not worth living!? No, joking, all life is intrinsically valuable.


SINGING BRIDGES

Sound Installation by Jodi Rose

Article by Agatha Yim

"Singing Bridges" is the latest sound exhibition by Jodi Rose; a conceptual sound artist who is currently completing a Master of Media Art at the School of Creative Arts. The sound exhibition features recorded sounds of bridges from around the world which aims to give the listener an intimate alter perspective of sounds that we would otherwise take for granted.

"To me art is about experiencing the world differently and being able to find something unique or beautiful that isn't necessarily obvious. And actually being able to express that so that other people can have a sense of it as well is very important. So [with] doing something like recording Bridges which is obviously something quite off the wall... I hope to give people a sense of something else in their everyday environment so that next time [when] they cross a bridge they'll think 'oh I wonder what this one sounds like?' or perhaps just have a little bit of reflective poetic moment in [their] everyday life...I think it's really important that art is part of the day to day world."

The idea originated from a mere spark of curiosity during her time at Sydney College of the Arts when she came upon the harp-like construction of the newly built Glebe Island Bridge, "I walked past one day and went, 'wow, I wonder what the cables sound like?'"

Fuelled by her great curiosity Jodi spent 7 months of last year recording material all around the world, from places such as Vietnam, London, The Netherlands, and Slovakia, just to name a few. 'I wanted to explore the world with this project, to me it was a way of going out and being able to make connections with the world in a different way.'

"Singing Bridges" is on show until this Friday and is located in the George Paton Gallery (2nd Floor of Union House), University of Melbourne.

Check out the installation here: (after Friday you may need to go to the archive page)

http://www.musu.org.au/gpg/exhibi_2.html