TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

6:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

hello there, I'm back from my recent excursion into the land of humanity - it's amazing what a difference it makes to actually have a day off now and then. feel almost human again. working obsessively on something you love is of course fantastic, but art can be a harsh taskmistress. and as diane says, radio never sleeps. nor bridges.

tonight's thrill is playing internet radio live for sherre delys' update of a famous radio work by ferdinand kriwet, originally made in the 80's by recording radio from all over the world and splicing it together - over 5,000 edits. we're doing it all virtually - for abc radio's the night air audiotheque. it's a fabulous set-up, in studio 22, one of the ABC TV studios - every performer has their own - possibly the worlds first sound art TV pilot. you can listen online on sept 18.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair/
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair/audiotheque.htm

The Audiotheque 2005:
Finding The Signal In The Noise
The Audiotheque 2005 is now booked-out but you can hear the broadcast of the show on The Night Air at 8.30pm on Sunday 18 September. The Audiotheque 2005 is an evening of live audio experimentation with sound and visual artists Ben Byrne, Shannon O'Neill, Pimmon, Joyce Hinterding, Rik Rue, Gail Priest, Ivan Lisyak, Sherre Delys, and Fold.

and somehow I've managed to get all through the mobile journeys program, it had nothing to do with me, I just recorded some conversations - but apparently my interview technique makes me hard to cut out. Oh well, more insane gonzo ranting...

Mobile Journeys
Sunday 28 August 2005
As artist Jodi Rose contemplates content on the move, we journey into the mobile future with a phone book's worth of new media artists, community groups and hip-hoppers who each teach us to change the way we think.

what else... hmm slowly editing the concrete interviews into structured form; taking a much needed break from 24/7 art immersion to smell the jasmine and listen to music; future plans all on hold until funding results known - fingers crossed although at this point I'd willingly contemplate throwing it all in and getting a real job.
ok, maybe not just yet.
damn that's right, residency proposals and funding apps to write this wkd, almost forgot. way too relaxed. knitting rehearsal tomorrow too.

vivienne westwood declined my invitation to provide a bridge guard uniform, so guess I'll have to make it myself. thinking dark red with plenty of gold braid and bridge buttons - where do you get buttons custom made these days? maybe I can find someone in budapest. also planning to knit all the bridges along the danube in my four months there. just when I need a break from writing the novel and composing the symphony.

random vignettes from sydney streets:
a man in a black tuxedo pedalling furiously on his sea green bicyle along crown st in the rain
three women all in black photographed in st stephen's cemetery, their profiles framed by stone arches - one looked like sofia coppola.

best go track down some sound artists to have dinner with now - will be back on air soon.