TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, September 19, 2008

12:31 PM
Posted by jodi rose

...apocalypse, now and then

resurfaced after the 12 days navigation from linz, almost with my sanity intact. the longest time I have been offline in as many years. writing this now before opening email, as I have a feeling that my life is now in complete chaos...but maybe it´s not so bad. Nicolas said, very helpfully last night, ah go another five days and you will be a completely different person, with a new life. Yes, I have almost forgotten what the internet is... such a strange concept, you can type words into a computer to people all across the world, and they answer you. Bizarre. Living a very zen life, every day is a new scenario, the constant change is kind of soothing in a way, drifting along between riverbanks and factories. We had a fabulous week of concerts in the locks between Reggensberg and Nurnberg, some of them 24.6m high, the largest in europe, apparently. Knut, Sarah, Dinah and Jean-Philipppe making various interventions and improvisations with the sound of the machinery singing as the boat goes down. I went to record the sweetest bridge we stopped nexto, during the three hours we spent in Frankfurt yesterday, and randmly met another bridge sound artist who was cycling over, he stopped and asked me áre those contact microphones? why, yes they are, he told me about the bridge composition and installation he has opening this weekend at the offenbach festival, where the boat was meant to be moored but events collided to make that impossible. So now we head straight to strasbourg. I am still in two minds about wether to stay after monday or not, have a ticket back to berlin and some semblance of sanity - perhaps - or else stay on board and take my chances with the sound art collectif. maybe they will adopt me and take me back to paris with them, although it´s all gone very french farce in the last few days... still, that´s an improvement on the totally feral week before. On the bright side, I have made 3 new compositions, and edited 2 versions of the performance in Linz, so at least it´s been productive.

What next, who can say? stay tuned....