TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

1:18 PM
Posted by jodi rose

day before yesterday
walking along the danube.. thinking 'and the unlived life is not worth examining'
immersion almost complete
finished writing the article for gyuri's newspaper, now he will edit and translate into hungarian and slovak.

yesterday started snowing again
so calm and quiet under the bridge
all my thoughts from that moment have drifted away

today started with a visit to the slovak ministry of foreign affairs, met with the under secretary of state, and various ambassadors and consuls in a series of state rooms furnished with ornate glossy teak tables.
the very urbane ambassador came in and chatted to me about a wim wenders film 'lisbon lisbon', made to celebrate the city for its expo a few years ago
he said it's about a man who goes to record sounds
and is a very beautiful film, especially the soundtrack. He was ambassador in Portugal for 4 years, and then the Arab Emirates - passed a few minutes talking with me about poetry - the famous portuguese poet who wrote 'I don't know what will happen tomorrow', put on his best pyjamas and died the next day. They will talk with the ministry of the interior, and inshallah it will be ok.

Decided to drop into the slovak national radio, as it's an extraordinary building - inverted pyramid. It's the upside down city, the castle too is like a table with legs in the air. Called up the director of the experimental radio studio, and he very graciously showed me all around the studios, concert hall, met some people - I will go back for an interview in Feb.
Wonderful photos from electroacoustic music happenings in bratislava since the 60's, including a visit from john cage in 1992 (? soon before he died).
Sadly I missed art's birthday party on tuesday, which featured an experimental music concert linked to stockholm and vienna - sounded like quite a party!

now following up a few loose threads and decompressing from life in sturovo, good to have this buffer in bratislava before london tomorrow.