Jodi Rose has just won the title of Australia’s best blog. The competition, run by internet company SmartyHost, attracted 530 entries and was open to all corporate and personal bloggers in Australia. The top prize was $10,000 cash. Based on content, creativity, uniqueness, and frequency and currency of postings, Singing Bridges Travel Diary received the highest combined score from the Smarty Host panel.
Jodi describes “Singing bridges” as a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments. To create this work she amplifies and records the sound of bridge cables around the world, listening in to the secret voice of bridges as the inaudible vibrations in the cables are translated into sound.
Jodi describes herself as an Australian sound artist, writer and freelance cultural commentator, who works ‘producing audiovisual performance, sound installations, experimental music, radio programs and large scale sonic art events in the local and international new media arts scene’.
Jodi’s CD, “Singing Bridges: Vibrations and Variations”, a CD of her bridge compositions with remixes by experimental and electronic artists from around the world, was released earlier this year by Sonic ArtStar.
Smarty Host’s eleven best blogs
1. www.singingbridges.net/diary (Jodi Rose)
2. www.loobylu.com (Claire Robinson)
3. www.ausculture.com/blog (Jess)
4. www.karencheng.com.au (Karen Cheng)
5. www.problogger.net (Darren Rowse)
6. www.trollhattansaab.net (Steven Wade)
7. www.thepodcastnetwork.com/tpn (Mick Stanic & Cameron Reilly)
8. www.hearye.org (Stuart Loh)
9. www.browncardigan.com (Johnny Buoy)
10. antonyloewenstein.blogspot.com (Antony Loewenstein)
11. www.camwheeler.com/wine (Appellation Australia)