I'm feeling numb
-17 I believe in Montreal today. If you walk around outside for too long almost you stop feeling your face. I'm staying in the old part of downtown. Last night I caught some 'acousmatic' music. Some professor from Belgium, Annette Vande Gorne doing a surround sound thing using oscillators/field records/ French vocals, etc with about 16 speakers. A couple of pieces were OK, one concert of that type of stuff is enough to last for a while though. They have a festival of it!
Speaking of French, my vocabulary is definitely not up to scratch as I understand only about 30% of what's being said, luckily pretty much everyone in Montreal is bilingual.
Today I started off going to see the geodisc dome which Buckminster Fuller designed for the 1967 world fair which they've renamed the Biosphere. They weren't open yet so I didn't stick around in the cold to see from inside the viewing platform. Next stop was the architecture museum which happened to have an exhibition on Montreal in the 60's and the world fair, some interesting stuff. There was a little doco with music by Terry Riley. Very space age/mod/60's futurist which doesn't seem to have come to fruition unfortunately. Then wandered through a big park which was covered nearly entirely in snow. Caught the bus up Rue St-Laurent to a vegan restaurant, then the 3km+ numbing walk back here to the hostel after the sun's gone down! Want to go out tonight but the temperatures are insane! If this was Sydney everyone would stay home.
Speaking of French, my vocabulary is definitely not up to scratch as I understand only about 30% of what's being said, luckily pretty much everyone in Montreal is bilingual.
Today I started off going to see the geodisc dome which Buckminster Fuller designed for the 1967 world fair which they've renamed the Biosphere. They weren't open yet so I didn't stick around in the cold to see from inside the viewing platform. Next stop was the architecture museum which happened to have an exhibition on Montreal in the 60's and the world fair, some interesting stuff. There was a little doco with music by Terry Riley. Very space age/mod/60's futurist which doesn't seem to have come to fruition unfortunately. Then wandered through a big park which was covered nearly entirely in snow. Caught the bus up Rue St-Laurent to a vegan restaurant, then the 3km+ numbing walk back here to the hostel after the sun's gone down! Want to go out tonight but the temperatures are insane! If this was Sydney everyone would stay home.
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