User:Danny van der Kleij/what

Free Wikileaks Pirate Radio

A radio based work that was partly a radio broadcast and partly a web browser tool for automatically broadcasting Wikileaks content. The radio broadcast was done by a simple FM transmitter. The automatization part consists of a Firefox web browser plug in. Whenever the user of this plug-in visits Wikileaks or one of it’s many mirrors, the plug-in automatically sends chunks of the Wikileaks text document to a back end of translate.google.com. Here the text is automatically converted to speech and spoken in a robotic manner. The combination of fm transmitter and text to speech automatization enables for easy broadcasting of Wikileaks content. The first broadcast of Wikileaks material was done at a moment of much heated debate on shutting down Wikileaks servers.

More of the same

More of the same is a music recommendation website that uses and abuses the last.fm database. When visiting More of the same, the visitor is presented with typical web 2.0 style logos and a search bar for his initial search. After clicking search the visitor is presented with a 100 to 200 new recommendations. These recommendations are presented in one horizontal bar of thumbnail sized images accompanied by the text ‘if you like’ and ‘then you also like’. At the end of this line is a YouTube clip of the least relevant recommendation. The visitor can then further specify his musical taste by filling out a survey style question. After answering even less relevant recommendations are given, with again the least relevant being played as a YouTube clip, accompanied by a new question. This process can loop endlessly if the user keeps answering the survey questions.

The schizophonic search

An interactive multi channel radio piece. Messages on the schizophonic and deathly nature of radio are hidden within the FM radio spectrum. The user is invited via a small list of instructions to pick a small transistor radio and search for these messages by turning the radio’s tuning dial.