TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, June 26, 2005

1:50 PM
Posted by jodi rose

now, where was I?
ah yes, the alien tumult night was fantastic, even on a dark rainy winter night had great turnout, refreshingly good mix of people, (ie not all the same faces from the one scene - sound art can be so cliquey, and this wasn't) with a lovely vibe and some very fine performances - the geek from swamp creek particularly entertaining, and 'showstopper' julian knowles did a subtle and beautiful set.

this morning woke up in north fitzroy (that's melbourne, a whole other city and state for you non-australian readers), and played with ari, my favourite 5 year old. we built a multi-dimensional 5 part dungeon/island complete with helipad, police boat (with 6 cops and a knight), 3 escaped daleks and a treasure chest full of gems hidden in a volcano (with a wheel on top for letting out the lava), until it was time for him and emer to go to their respective birthday party engagements. emer tells people he's got his friend jodirose visiting, and it really is like that - I don't get to play with leggo nearly enough.

back to the circuit bending this afternoon, trying to whip something up for tonight's appearance on symbiosis and even more crucialy next weeks surround sound gig at liquid architecture. had a moments quiet freak-out last night, thinking eeek I don't remember anyone telling me there was an 8 speaker surround set-up - but then got quite excited dreaming up fun things to do with building bridges around the audience and structuring the piece. so, now to go learn some more software. just keep thinking of it as an experiment and nothing is so scary. it's when you decide this is it, the 'final work' that it all gets too much. so for now, I'll keep exploring and experimenting.