TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

11:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

had my first laptop performance - no not that kind - at the nownow last night. great venue at frequency lab in the old hibernian house on elizabeth st, central - grungey and decripit - it's hard to find those places in sydney these days. Big open space with lots of comfy chairs and friendly people - what more could you need? The ever effervescent Jim Denley ran the bar and door, and Clayton was the evening's charming host - introducing Paul from NZ in his first australian and first solo gig - played some way out there drums with toys and a really cool noise-lunchbox; then yours truly - Jim asked what are you going to do, I laughed and said, I really don't know, just downloaded the software yesterday - he told me afterwards that he was a bit worried at that, but pleasantly surprised by the show. It was great how many people gave me really good constructive feedback, useful comments about varying duration and dynamics (Jim) and how difficult it is to find new sounds when making electronic music (Gail), making me realise what an incredible archive and resource I have in these many bridge recordings. Claire told me about her pet hate - 'no delay' and funny how people thought I was using different software (ableton live, max dsp) when it was all two very cool very fun ixi software programs, written by the fabulous thor and enrike.
http://www.ixi-software.net
spent the morning at the beach watching seagulls and waves. gorgeous. having trouble getting back in focus, but guess it will come eventually.