User:Riviera/Notes from week 8
November 6th
That day, Bernard told me that there was something he wanted me to have. In the hall closet was a massive 1960s reel-to-reel Sony tape machine …. There were also about a hundred flat boxes of quarter inch tapes. He said that he’d had them on his ship. I was so excited, thinking that maybe the tapes were his journals. He held my hand and told me it was very important to him that I listen to them right away. I felt very special that he was opening his life to me.
The next time I saw him was in the hospital only a couple of weeks later. He looked like a translucent apple core. I started to cry, and he patted my wrist weakly while ghost wind came out of his mouth. His eyes were dark gray buttons. I was so relieved and sad when the nurse told me I had to leave. In the middle of the night, I woke up and could feel he was dead.
None of the tapes were labeled. The first one I played was the soundtrack to Kiss Me Kate. The next one was the soundtrack to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. … All of the hundred tapes — except for one, which was the Harmonicats — were fucking show tunes and musicals. He was telling me he was a queen. I brought this up to my mother. It upset her and she didn’t want to hear it.
– Stewart, 2023, p.33
Editorial Team Meeting Recap
I took the bakfiets from WORM to Karel Doormanhof this afternoon. When I arrived back at the Wijnhaven building I found that two groups had formed: the editorial team and the installation team. I joined the editorial team and spoke with Senka, Mania and Michael about what had been going on. I asked for the readers digest of the conversation so far. It had been decided to hold a series of interviews for the special issue. Connecting with people at WORM, such as Ash, Lieuwe and Lukas would be the starting point.
Possible Questions for Structured Interviews with Radio Makers
We spoke about interviewing radio makers in a structured way. That is, putting the same questions to each interviewee to collect data which could be better tabulated and drawn upon in a structured way.
Here are the questions which were written in the Etherpad. Perhaps we could vote on these to decide what to ask radio makers?
- Who are your listeners?
- Who are you listening to?
- Do you have an archive?
- Is the element of liveness important to you (does “archiving” matter)?
- How do your listeners use it?
- How did you start with radio worm?
- Why/What is important to make public / in making a public?
- What does (Radio) Worm mean to them (two questions ;)?
- What do you not choose to broadcast? (public / private) What are the errors? (Ash’s example of turning on the microphones to hear the way decisions get made)
- What languages do you use in your radio? (acess and who can understand these languages)
- Would you like to be include in the archive and if so how? (Are there “other” materials/recordings that could represent your broadcast / audience)
- How do you share the (radio) air?
- What do you find important to transmit and broadcast and why?
Beyond Audacity
Mania and I had interviewed several people at Zine Camp for the presentation about the Special Issue which took place on the Sunday. We recorded these conversations on my Sony handheld recorder. On the Saturday I edited the audio for the presentation in Audacity. I spoke with Hackers & Designers (H&D) about their tools and collective practices. At one point I put forward the following question:
To which the response was
Thus, I was glad we were working in small groups. When asked about the nature of collaboration in H&D this member of the group emphasised that
I raised this point with the group in relation to working with sound files in Audacity. Which brings me to Video Wiki
Video Wiki
In the evening, Michael spoke with Victor and I about video wiki, part of the Active Archives project. Michael described how he worked on a publication of the Situationist Times. The publication involved Leaflet and
The Situationist Times
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