TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

maanantai, maaliskuu 22, 2004

3:26 PM
Posted by jodi rose

At MUU Gallery, which is a Finnish artist association and work space for media art.
Nervanderinkatu 10,
0010 Helsinki
www.muu.fi

The signäl pröcess workshop is happening in a loose format here. Not sure what exactly, the kids were out recording around the railway station last week, and Tommi is going to record the trains today. He just told me a story about when he was composing music, having an epiphany playing this one chord, everything stopped, he played it again and the world looked completely different.

Sophea is going to word me up on activities to date, just had to deal with my overflowing email inbox - apologies if your email has bounced back, please try again now. Or alternatively try singingbridges@hotmail.com

Met John Hopkins, who taught at the media lab here, and introduced me (over the interneet) to mari when I was in Helsinki 2 years ago and took part in difusion project. He is staying over on Suommnelina (sp) island, doing the nifca artist residency. I may be going out there tomorrow to discover the 'secret bar' with Andrew Paterson (who is organising the locative media workshop) and Ossi (Pixelache producer who met me at the airport - luckily he read my travel diary and realised I had no idea where to go once I got here) - it is an old officers club and sounds intriuguing.

Now I think I am going to Porvoo tomorrow and will make a recording of the bridge there - if anyone in Helsinki is reading this and wants to come along, please email.

It's very exciting being here, has stopped snowing for now, but I still need to find the fantastic second hand shop near katastro.fi and get myself a snow proof jacket. Since I don't even häve a rainprööf one. (total misuse of umlaüts but they'rë so cüte on the keyboard) And Julaine wouldn't let me bring two.