finally positive and official confirmation on the artist-residency award in Helsinki. March through May or so, artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy's Center for Music and Technology. with a nice flat on Suomenlinna, a stipend, and no real teaching contingencies. the first time in a decade I have had time to work without the pressure of teaching and/or movement hanging over my head. some teaching before and after in Germany and probably trips to other places here and there in between -- Riga, Tallinn, Venice, Amsterdam, K?ln. open-ended. Europe as destination, home? but with the welcoming spirit shown, it is something of a homecoming. that old dilemma of a spiritual home in certain landscapes of the West, and an intellectual/social creative home in the urban energies of pan-Europe. after the last two years of geopolitical developments across the Atlantic, I understand that things will be different now. and the time of returning to the US may be further off than I can imagine.

facing the tech-no-mad inside. the usual stresses surface. destination instabilities, fiscal indeterminacy, psychosocial unknowns. people to see, two years on, at least, the amount of time I have been in the US without leaving at all. but the forward look that travel requires begins to liven my mind again. stories to share about the lapsed time of distant absence.

on the verge of re-starting the movement that birthed this travelog. a return to tech-no-mad. all the fears and terrors slip into ethernets, expressed and concentrically radiating. telling them to dissipate. flagrant connections. drifting through. keeping to (forgotten about) the center comatose.

and then those comings and goings. or what. plans to jaunt, plans to visit people. well, that kind of travel seems not to have the time in the next year. the year fills up with actions and activities already framed by time and place.

the final keyworx stream goes out.