TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

1:03 PM
Posted by jodi rose

somehow the intangible demands of kunst make it impossible to stay afloat on everyday life - things like doing washing, putting air in the tyres - just keep sinking to the end of the list again and again. while we tinker with dust in the cellar and record absences along the waterfront.

my cycle route every morning starts on frankfurter allee, then hangs a left at cafe moskau off karl-marx allee and over the spree, down by the ming dynasty chinese restaurant to the josetti hofe, third courtyard. the building complex is an old cigarette factory, and our gallery space is called 'juno' gallery after the brand of cigarettes manufactured here. which I love, as junoesque is one of my favourite terms for a statuesque woman, better even than zaftig.

speaking of which, had to stay home drinking coffee and listening to the bbc world - outlook - which is one reason to not leave the house -until they got to the segment on beth ditto, 'larger-than-life' singer with 'gossip' whose music is described as 'riot-disco'. yeah! good to hear a feminist lesbian singer taking the world by storm and not apologising for anything, especially not the way she looks. it's all bout the music, says 'the coolest woman on the planet' (as voted by NME 2006) and hell why should only the size zero chicks get the spotlight.

in fact, why do women want to starve themselves out of existence?
scares me no end.

on to the cellar this morning, recording isabel sweeping up dust.

last night went to tesla and heard jacob k speak about his work, loop tower - rec of the mechanism that makes alexanderplatz tower go round - and a gorgeous radio work from 2001, mesmerising voices, a girl in love with an angel. tonight he's playing at Ausland, AION, the recordings from abandoned buildings in chernoybl twenty years later.
We caught up for a drink and walk in the park on tuesday, after my grant madness finished and he signed the lease on a new apt near kotbusser tor. Talking about his work on recording cellular sounds - apparently the ear actually transmits sound as well as receiving it, and electricity samples for a danish horror film; the broadway columns resonating work at the swiss art institutein ny; and my recordings in bangkok and new directions with bridge theatre/cabaret and transit radio. I love seeing these people who just catch the energy of an idea and go with it, floating moments... already thinking of ways to mix our sounds, and start a conversation salon. ah the joys of a bohemian life in berlin. it's all coming together.

friday night is folktronica at trumpete, with jasmina machina, melinda song, kiki bohemia and justine electra at 'my urban soul part II'.