TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

torstai, maaliskuu 04, 2004

1:50 AM
Posted by jodi rose

latest news:

Singing Bridges now online in Australia Ad Lib a fantastic project by sound artist and violinist Jon Rose (no relation!) who plays and records fence wires.

"Australia Ad Lib, an interactive guide to the wild, the weird and the vernacular in Australian music.
These pages feature a selection of the most iconoclastic, larrikin, do-it-yourself performers working in Australia today.
The mind numbing mediocrity offered up by the global- music-mart can't be avoided; but while using this archive it can temporarily be ignored. We've gone for the radical, the un-compromised and the often unheard music; the stuff that gets swept under the mainstream carpet. "

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/default.htm

The security guard at the ABC car park asked me this morning who I wanted to kill. No-one, I said, I just want to make people happy. 'You don't look like you want to kill anyone', he laughed as the boom gate opened. Then I remembered I was wearing my 'Kill the Morning After Girls' T-shirt. Ironic merchandising by a Melbourne band, part of the retro rock'n'roll scene. If I ever do decide to go rogue and start up a sleeper cell, this open face and friendly smile will be a great disguise!

Of course I'm much more interested in listening to bridges than blowing them up - although if one was collapsing from natural causes (a la Galloping Gertie) I would very much like to hear the cables popping as they snap. Listened to an interesting piece in the studio yesterday, one of the 'Earclips' series being mastered. In it a musician and sound artists sets fire to a grand piano, which was apparently worthless having previously been damaged by flooding. The microphones placed both inside and out of the structure record the sound of the wires as they break, and eventually the microphones themselves are destroyed. Sounds amazing.

Had a refresher course on Pro-Tools with Steven, am now unstoppable and ready to create a virtual bridge symphony. Sourcing alternative contact microphones, trying to track down a polymer hydrophone, if anyone knows who makes them, please contact me. Any kind of piezo transducer that is flexible and has good low frequency response. The Schaller Oyster's have been fantastic, but I think there are frequency ranges that I'm missing out on them. Getting serious now about tech.