TRAVEL DIARY

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VIEWING ALL POSTS FOR: MAY 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

6:22 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Tonight is the night, singing Bridges remote debut
Concert in Paris at Mal au Pixel with Yroyto (VJ) and Emmanuel Rebus playing fabulous bridge instrument!

Head on over the peripherique to Mains d'Oeuvres if you're in Paris, and stay tuned for archives later on Radio WNE if not.

ballades expérimentales
Mains d'Oeuvres

Jeudi 22 mai, 21h-0h. 8€ (6€ TR) Prévente 8€

SayCet (FR/Electronypop) / pop electronica

A la fois délicat, enchanteur, fragile et habité, souvent assimilé à Boards of Canada ou Mùm, l'univers de Saycet est comme un moment privilégié d'introspection. Après One Day At Home, un premier album fait maison plebiscité par la presse, SayCet est en pleine composition de son prochain opus, un tournant pop avec l'introduction d'une voix qui vient donner corps à ses mélodies raffinées. La formation live évolue elle aussi, prenant le parti de créer un univers visuel et sonore complet où la vidéo rend à l'ensemble son caractère cinématographique assumé.

Yann Leguay / dissection vinylique

L'artiste présente Cutter Off, version performance du projet DeaD_MediA qui consiste à «disséquer» un disque vinyle à l'aide d'outils chirurgicaux branchés sur micro-contact. Le mix est évolutif, partant d'un disque vierge, la gravure se fait en direct sous les yeux du public qui se retrouve immergé dans un univers sonore oscillant entre bruitisme industriel et electronica-acoustique.

Singing Bridges
Jodi Rose
Emmanuel Rebus
Yro Yto
laboiteblanche

Rencontre entre deux musiciens hors-pairs, joueurs de ponts. Avec Emmanuel Rebus à Paris et Jodi Rose à Singapour, se lient deux visions de l'environnement sonore urbain et de son potentiel créatif.

Yro Yto apporte sa pierre à l'édifice, jonglant avec les flux vidéo et le traitement des signaux tandis que Laboiteblanche tend les câbles de cette architecture sonore. Jodi Rose travaille également en collaboration avec Luka Dekleva (Slovénie), auteur de créations vidéos pour Singing Bridges, dont des extraits seront diffusés.

toktek (Tom Verbruggen, NL)

Toktek a démarré en 2005 Crackle-Canvas, une série d'objets sonores jouables. Chaque tableau est constitué de haut-parleurs, de bouton, de prises et de câbles voués à créer une peinture sonore. Les tableaux se lient les uns aux autres formant une composition plus vaste.

Tom Verbruggen est membre du collectif de recherche sur les interfaces musicaux New Interfaces for Performance (NIP).

Thursday, May 15, 2008

6:03 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Things are cooking along nicely now. Have eliminated certain bridges, and am about to investigate one that somehow slipped past my list-making the other day. To a private island, no less. With Libeskind apartments next door. Report to follow.

Setting up the streaming and live performance for concert in Paris next week. Yes, Singapore to Paris, here we go. Romantic/conceptual bridges abound.

Pix here from the first trip.

About to head out to the harbourfront for my bridge test, and then photography exhibition nearby. It's all starting to take shape. Made application for the Micro Fm Transmission license, and gallery visit next week. Followed by exclusive conceptual art opening with Heman Chong at Hermes. Ratio of artists - money greatly improved!

Mal au Pixel Festival Paris
Theme: Public Escape May 22-25


YroYto - VJ working on the concert with me and


Emmanuel Rebus
(musician, inventor - bridge instrument)


also Thomas - WNE Internet radio


and material from Luka


& Co


Tonight: New Photography from SE Asia

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

8:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Gathering sounds clearer
180 wearable aspect

New skype single ear wear headset promises a lot...
can't wait to unwrap it and see if it really does smooth away the background noice of the endless traffic outside.

Tropical rain this morning, and no umbrella.
Slowly getting tech'd up for the show, and ready to charm as many monitoring engineers as I possibly can into this conceptual aesthetic twist on their usual preoccupation with safety. Hopefully it won't be too confusing or complicated, my plan is to make it as safe, simple and seamless as is humanly and technically possible.

The quiet quiet bridges of Singapore reminded me of just why I had decided to extend my technique to the existing infrastructure, and hook into those monitoring signals. Now we just need to get the engineers onboard!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

6:29 PM
Posted by jodi rose

started the day with visit to sim lim square, then headed out to test the sound of six bridges, first in the forest walk, then along singapore river, took a taxi boat back to the art bridge, which had the first decent sound, then a break at brewerski, and on to the final 2 bridges. metal pounding in my head, taking night off to filter and back into action tomorrow. rundown of the coolest nightspots and best clubs for live music, if i ever get out of the lab.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

3:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

'Welcome to the world's largest open air sauna', said Nigel when I arrived. Yes, free steam.

Other than that, it's the land of a thousand shopping malls and a hundred thousand high rises, with all the lush foliage in between manicured to within an inch of its life. You could say it's calm and relaxed.

Desperately looking for some Singapore punks.

My roomate Momoyo is gorgeous, funny smart Japanese performance artist who lives in New York. We're both finding it a little strange to be going back to school every day, I can feel some long evenings with mai tai and singapore slings coming on. And at last I have a real bed. Queen size, although my feet do stick out a little over the end. Still, it's a small price to pay. As is having to keep the air con at 24 degrees so it's cool enough to sleep. And 30 min train ride to get anywhere. Ah well, all the artists are in the same building, and the same boat. I miss my little red jopo bicycle!!

Went to check out the Bugis Street shops yesterday, as I read that they are one of the few places with old style shops in single buildings, ie not high rise mall. But it's all a covered over market, like paddy's in sydney, with blaring music and flashing lights and cheap tat. Joined in the local culture and immersed myself in department store windows and trashy movie.

Although it feels like I have strayed into some strange social engineering experiment. Going to type up my notes from 3 meetings on my first 2 days here - spaced out and jetlagged, no idea how I could string a sentence together, much less discuss cutting edge technology and high concept art projects with head of the media arts and electrical engineering departments - then once that's done, am allowed out to play, and go in search of punks.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

6:45 PM
Posted by jodi rose

last sunday in berlin

yes, every day now is the last one. I know, three months isn't that long.
it's just, this feels like home. and I really need that. still fresh skies and new adventures etc etc etc

checked out gallery weekend with edwige, did the underworld bunkers tour, had a long sunny walk in the park and fleamarket last weekend, wrote some article, took care of admin, made an installation of discarded wallpaper, sadly ephemeral, as it was a beautiful artwork.

today is all about schlepping bags here and there, down to the cellar, up to the fourth floor... last leg of the journey, rottkapchen waiting for me at the other end. well, once I get it up the stairs. ok, signing off now.