I've penned up a brief Podcast primer. Includes recommended client software and two neat Podcasts... one from our very own Secession and another from KunstRadio, radio art from Austria.

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Launching Frequency Post live from the studios of KunstRadio, Vienna, Sunday 23 October 2005.

Broadcast/streaming and Podcast details:

Streaming at 23:05 CET, 24 October, 7am local Australian time.
World time via: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

Frequency Post is comprised of six generative sound works, each an investigation of radio frequency allocation as defined by the broadcasting legislations, technologies and economic pressures brought to bear on each of countries and/or regions individually commissioned sound artist/composers choose to draw inspiration from.

Project includes works by Warren Burt, Ollie Olsen, Steve Law, Pei (Taiwan) and Jin Shan (mainland China).

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I seem to have an affinity with mushrooms. Either they seek me out, or I do them. Whilst taking a walk through a forest a few kilometers outside of Varna with some friends from the APC meeting, we came across these cheeky, delightful children of what must surely be ancient Bulgarian spore.

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This was actually the first meal I'd had in Bulgaria and it was consumed at Sofia airport. It was a kind of stew with egg... the egg was actually baked!

A typical breakfast... I've had two here now and it's unlikely I'll photograph each and every one... much like lunch and dinner, each meal seems to resemble the next.

A kind of shredded beet salad served up with lunch, typically pork and gravey... today we had tomato sauce with peppers... What, no photos? Sorry, I ate each server faster than I could get to the camera. Why? Well, whilst others complained, I dug in as so much of this food I hadn't eaten since I was last in Eastern Europe and prior to that, at the family dinner table. Yum! Better start running on that beach!!!

Rice ball with yoghurt, cucumber and onion. Goes down well with a thick slice of black bread and unsalted butter.

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The APC Council meeting is being held on the Black Sea coast, Bulgaria. Varna is known for its holiday destinations, in particular the sprawling resorts that were favoured by the Communist elite.

This is the view, at 7am, from my room, now converted into a micro-production suite...

The view with my room...

That the APC Council and staff are here for their bi-annual meeting I find, I must admit, alarming. The Imperial Hotel, one of many on this compound, contains so much timber panelling it was hard not to imagine several football fields worth of Black Forest having gone into the making of the dining room alone!

The APC slogan says, "Internet and ICTs for social justice and development". Sorry, but I can't imagine this resort representing the values from which this statement was born.

It's my understanding, in the light of this 2nd day in Varna, that would the organisers have chosen any other venue in Bulgaria we would not have had the service offered here. No internet, poor food, poor infrastructure... Why we are here is perhaps more about the local situation... that said, service is good here and the walk from the hotel to the meeting rooms, one that takes you along the beach, is really quite stunning.

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