TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, March 24, 2005

3:19 PM
Posted by jodi rose

walked straight through customs and out into copenhagen airport, no passport control, nothing. I love that, once you're in europe you can wander around no-one asks you questions about where you're going or what you're doing. well, in the schengen state anyway - don't know what that means, but that's where I am. it sounds like some kind of sausage, schengen smallgoods.

staying in jacob's gorgeous shop-front apartment in westerbroge, walked up the hill to the park this morning, all muddy paths and twisted black branches, brackenish wilderness feeling; now chilling out with cups of tea and helping jacob choose his ensemble for tonight.

cd launch at ideal bar, vega - just round the corner.
http://fonik.dk/current.html

it's really lovely to be here, hadn't realised how stressed i was in helsinki, by the constant cold, and just feeling like I had to be doing stuff all the time. well, I did, but having now written 10,000 words of my thesis can relax and go back to only doing 2 major projects at once. one of them has grown from the very small experimental prototype for live networked bridge stream into the second act of the opening night concert for pixelache and particle wave - not sure exactly how that happened, but I'm going to think of it as a small experiment, not some big deal in the chamber music hall at sibelius academy.... where Sophea has suggested playing the streams through different speaker channels, so it will be my first experiment in surround sound performance. very exciting. my idea is to spatialise the sounds geographically, but jacob also suggested building the structure of the bridge around the space or hanging the speakers in outline of the suspension cables. we're cooking up ideas for future collaborations - I'm trying to convince him to wear a purple velvet suit tonight! - maybe we can do something at ircam sometime, I will be going to visit the archive in paris.

there's something that feels quite hard and unrelenting about helsinki, the architecture perhaps (hi to melb band of that name) or the constant minus temperatures, or being in an apartment out of town that hasn't been lived in very much so it has a strangely empty feeling.

jacob's place is fantastic, all very simple, warm wooden floors and dark wood furniture, great bookshelves, lovely studio where I am sitting writing now looking out onto stone turrets and bicycles, cosy and minimal at the same time, with character, warmth and a sense of calm - the kind of house I aspire to. one day, only mine will be beside the ocean... oh and a library of 1920's 16mm russian and german films in the cellar... too cool.

trying to take a holiday but have to log in now and check the emails haven't spiralled out of control.. jacob is going down to his cellar for the silver suit and red shirt.... pics to come!