Bucharest
Bucharest is great - nice people, mad architecture, cheap. I went to the Museum of Modern Art, on three stories, and was the only visitor. It was like entering another possible world, where the Impressionists were all Romanian. The buildings are either Communist monoliths in concrete or charming but dilapdated Mediterranean piles, with crumbling brickwork and trellises.

Acousmania the festival was astounding. The highlights included Earle Howard doing Cage's Radio Music (esp. the bit where you could hear Sandy Shaw singing Puppet on a String), performances of Dumitrescu's 'Antimemoires' and Avrams 'On the Abolition of the Soul', Tim Hodginson's and Robert Reigel's solos, Gustavo Aguilar's piece, and some of the films shown at the end. There was so much music - twelve hours over three days - I will have to write an essay or something. First I'll edit the recordings I made and listen to it all again. Perhaps I will do a radio program on Resonance or something to play some of the music.

Avram and Dumitrescu are the worlds best hosts - looking after me throughout, with the help of the young composer Petru Teodorescu. I just listened to a collection of his work on CD.... noisy and active.