TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, January 29, 2007

10:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

I took myself off for an adventure this evening. Just couldn't stand being at my desk any longer, or walking the same newtown streets one more time, looking at familiar trees, people and dogs. Ran into Nick M as soon as I left the house, he was out scouting for locations to run his sound experiments. I can't wait. Seriously, wandering around listening to cut-up spatialised white/pink noise is my idea of a good time. I know, slightly weird. But surely in the best possible way. Did a similar research test for the acoustic lab at sydney uni last year (before it went up in smoke), listening to the same bars of an aria from 32 different spaces in the auditorium through their modelling software and anechoic chamber. Cool. Although if you spend longer than half an hour in one of those, you do go mad. According to John Cage.

Then halfway down the block saw a lovely girl I know from around, who almost came out with me for a drink but was too tired after gym and swim. The very charming people at redfern cellars helped me choose a cheap bottle of sav blanc to take with me to the park under the harbour bridge - and very drinkable it was. Sent me off with the advice to choose a word and graffiti it everywhere, then I'd be famous. Had to break it to them, I kind of already am, but for bridge recordings. 'Aha', they replied, 'that's why the harbour bridge'. Well, kind of. I'm going to cogitate on my next phase of the project. Who knows what insights may come, under a bridge. The intersection of the wealthy an dispossessed, powerful and homeless; divinities and mortals as Heidegger would say. All drawn together in - or under - the bridge.
Wash away this displaced anxiety and get back to the task at hand.

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