TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

9:47 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The morning after. A very intense, focused and concentrated week.
We made the performance, it was gorgeous. Really beautiful mix of sound and image, the inter-relationship between the beats and luminosity taken from the bridge sounds, folding into the performance as a fantastic human/machine/technology system. Luka's video is spectacular, and Luka's sonic wizardry enhanced mine, both giving new dimension to the bridges. Is this really all only bridge sounds?
The after-party started with champagne and campari, moved on to the ex-yugoslav army barracks squat/art complex, with bears blood at the bar masquerading as a photographic studio, then peach schnapps at an art opening in alcatraz gallery, followed by Sindicate club at K4.
This afternoon had visits from the lovely Matiaz, the sculptor who made the sketch I have on my desktop, and is building the bridge instrument. We talked about materials, design and interaction, and did some collaborative drawing, where he added a tuning key to the strings and took it in a whole new direction. Then the fabulous Dunaj came over - after days of trying to catch up between bridges - and brought catalogues from the city of women festival, and 'humour works' broadsheet of writing and art in the expanded europe, which I look forward to reading on the plane from Klagenfurt tomorrow. She wrote the text about the project that is on codeep website, and is also having it translated into English, we had a great rave about art, politics, film and writing. So now I feel a new rush of enthusiasm and focus, having been given this incredible gift of an amazing bridge to play on, great people to play with, time and space to develop the interaction and model design ideas, and a wonderful week in Ljubljana. Thanks Luka, Andrea, Codeep, Nova for everything.
Now it's back over the Loiblpass and to Berlin for the New Year.