TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

10:47 AM
Posted by jodi rose

so, the prime minister announced that the new 'smart cards' won't be compulsory, but you won't be able to access any government services without one. hmmmm.

week of technical details for upcoming bridge testing - if anyone happens to have a triaxial low g accelerometer lying around, could you please email me as I really need to borrow one for a week. then buy it! such a shame all those beautiful bksv instruments melted in the acoustic research lab fire at sydney uni, they were perfect and accessible. although densil said, we'd rather burn them than lend them to you... I think he was joking.

ideas for bridge theatre filtering in subconscious.

I'm back in the swing of darlington - abc daily circuit. Walks in the park most mornings, and had a deviation on thursday night to art opening at acp. Turned into a raucous evening, hanging out with lisa, lou, colin, willow. olga and merv b. Very bizzarre reunion with people from year above me at high school, who also happened to be there.
New motto: anything, anywhere, anytime.

The lovely matt at my local cafe asked where I was heading this morning, told him, work at abc. sounds fun he said. yeah, spending hours in a small dark room listening to the sound of my own voice - just what I love doing on a saturday. Still, it's not a bad way to make a living, and now I'm immersed in the sounds am starting to have ideas for structure. It's a very zen process, you can only use what is there. Anything that didn't make it onto tape really isn't much good now. Have to let the material guide you.

Quite funny listening to all the recordings I made of public spaces and cafe - top 40 pop music is the predominant theme. Will come in handy as a counterpoint to my reflective musings, good not to take yourself too seriously. Extending my fascination with the personal/public dichotomy. Enjoying being back in sydney where the cafe staff play an eclectic range of personal choices, this morning was an old Tom Waits. As opposed to endless trashy euro-pop, american hip-hop, or heavy metal/U2 in Sturovo.

Been a melancholy nostalgia listening back to musings during my time there, moments of intense loneliness, joyful celebrations and slowly building relationships and a sense of community. It's an ongoing process, learning to balance the physical local connections with virtual remote international networks. Not to mention staying afloat financially, maintaining some kind of physical fitness routine and emotional balance. Talking with Gail about 'how on earth are you doing this?' we both recognised that it's important not to worry too much about money. People who earn heaps seem just as stressed by it, so you might as well step lightly over the gaps, join the dots, and keep dancing along the way! Maybe tonight will be a chance for some dance activism, at the chippendale warehouse party. No, that's not a male striptease revue, but a suburb :)