TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

10:50 AM
Posted by jodi rose

slightly overcast, promise of spring rain.
I love a break in the tedium of sydney weather - really my melancholy eastern european soul longs for misty grey skies and stormy elements - and all I get is sun, sun and more sun.
Hence the fascination with exotic cold climates - people keep telling me how much it rains in glasgow and it just makes me want to go there more. other connections are the fabulous designers timorous beasties who I must email for quote on green bridge project, lovely dancer anna who I met in helsinki and is alike a dark haired version of little my, and zoe up in dundee who does the magentic migration project. That and the new bridge being built - very glamorous. My pointless friend tells me there are plenty of parties over halloween, so my new guard outfit will get a scottish debut.

Bought the ticket yesterday, after a few hours of tinkering ending up with an air malev flight (hungarian airlines - excellent I wanted to fly them) klm and air france - thinking of having tshirts made for each itinerary - this time it's: sydney.glasgow.ljubljana.budapest.sturovo.paris.bangkok.sydney
last trip: sydney.london.helsinki.zagreb.riga.paris.berlin.tallin.sydney
yeah, I know it's those sydney/sydney connections that are making life so expensive - really do need to relocate. sometime. somewhere.

ah well, location is sorted until may next year, so that leaves me time to write and get on with planning the hybrid bridge theatre extravaganza. and global symphony. thankfully all those wireless broadband cards are coming out now, although feel that I will probably need to have one for each country.... thoughts and ideas for the score and performance still bubbling away there in the background.

proposals to write this week include binaural media residency in portugal, sounding out instrument building grant app with josh, green bridge permament sound installation and design to print on bridge, radio program based on bridge guard residency, and I hope that's all.

but once I've done those and played at electrofringe, there's really hardly anything else to do - except pack up my house and get on the plane. i love that moment so much, really looking forward to it.

ok back to writing great literature and making superb art! ;) (tips from stephen tilley at abc who when asked what he was doing, answered 'making great radio'. you should try it, he told me, it really pisses people off!!)