TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, December 19, 2003

5:25 PM
Posted by jodi rose

At the airport - I love airports! Especially when all cashed up to buy treats duty free for the kids on the farm.....
waiting to board my flight to Wellington. It's been a bumpy ride the last few days, sad to be leaving melbourne even though it's all for a good cause. Last time I had a family xmas in new zealand I was 12. Crazy. Can't wait to see all the kids - second cousins or third or once removed somewhere down the track. I don't know. Catching the ferry across the sound from wellington to picton, with my mum. yay!
The last few weeks have been intense, trying to finish off everything for the year, post all the CD's I promised to people months ago, finally handed in the report from george paton gallery, and got some sound up on the sound design website.
www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au I think or maybe just one 'd' in there.
Had an online interview with Roger Mills on furthernoise.org last week, it was a very cool experience. Writing answers to questions in this open space where anyone could upload images and sounds - messed with my head a bit, someone kept putting up pictures of war atrocities and violence, which was a little confronting. But ultimately a reminder that peace is a fragile state, I guess 'we' take for granted living out here in the pacific, it was interesting having that intervention in this very esoteric sound art conversation. And people seemed to enjoy the sounds I put up, it was fun hearing the bridges play together, a small rehearsal for the global symphony thing. I can see a way to create that now - all set to come back from nz refreshed and holidayed and start working at the ABC on my australian bridge project.
Better go check out the gate see if it's time to get on board the plane, love to all, merry mishmash xxxjr