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Revision as of 15:41, 14 May 2020
Prototyping session Spring 2020, in the context of Special Issue #12: Radio Implicancies
This page is currently being worked on.
01
In the work for the Special Issue, we will employ a strategy of working between systems
Proposition is to publish prototyping work alongside other developments of the Special Issue in a rolling fashion, ie following an "early and often" approach to publishing.
Focus on using the wiki as a "cookbook" -- a place to record useful techniques for others.
- Review setup with liquidsoap and icecast from the sandbox to the lurk server.
- Review setup of webhook connecting git repo with webpage on sandbox
- Example of adding a makefile to the workflow. Idea of separating sources from outputs (targets in make speak).
- Connecting to the shared terminal with tmux
So specifically:
ssh sandbox tmux -S /tmp/radio attach -t radio -r
Where "ssh sandbox" assumes you have a "sandbox" entry in your .ssh/config file.
.gitignore
We will follow a "sources only" approach to using the git whereby only "source" files will get committed to a repo. The idea is that the tools are in place for anyone who clones the directory to "build" the other files using the makefile + tools.
For this reason the .gitignore file contains:
*.html
So that if you try to:
git add README.html
You will see:
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files: README.html Use -f if you really want to add them.
Why .gitignore
- Lighter/smaller repos, faster to share, with less need for huge disk space just to change.
- Less conflicts -- many "artificial" conflicts arise when files that get generated are also version controlled. It's simpler to track only the sources, and let programs like make take care of updating the rest from there.
more .gitignore
See the "live" .gitignore
- Also ignoring media files (use scp to place... manage differently) -- goal: keep the core repository as "light" as possible. Git is not idea for managing big binary files (they don't then to change in a way that lends itself to diff-ing).
- Temporary files (things like foo~)
- Python derived files / cache (python generates __pycache__ folders as needed).
(why) make radio
Why use make? Makefiles are like "executable notebooks" are a really effective (and time tested) way to document and share scripts, workflows, and workarounds using diverse tools.
What's the catch? Make comes from free software programming culture and was created to support programming work rather than publishing. However, as managing programmers is like "herding cats", the tool is extremely flexible and porous, and well integrated with the command-line and BASH scripting. As such it's compatible with the richness of command-line tools available.
- git and make not just for code presentation about using makefile and git in publishing workflows
practical to do's
- Update issue.xpub.nl to point http://issue.xpub.nl/12/ to (redirect to?) The working space of SI12.
- Understand and make use of the git & make based workflow.
- Familiarity using liquidsoap to create icecast streams.
- Use liquidsoap to create flexible streams that can be interrupted
- Use top to check the load on the sandbox
- Use liquidsoap as an editing tool to assemble, mix, and filter audio
- Explore some basic structural elements of liquidsoap (playlist, rotate, sequence).
Make Noise
- the colors of noise (using sox to generate white, brown, and pink noise)
Playlist
Liquidsoap's playlist
Try...
- reload
- reload_mode
Exercise:
1.
ssh to the sandbox
cd cp /var/www/html/12/liquidsoap/playlist.liq . cp /var/www/html/12/liquidsoap/playlist.m3u . cp /var/www/html/12/liquidsoap/passwords.liq .
Copy the whole folder somewhere
cp -r /var/www/html12/liquidsoap .
or
git clone https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/SI12-prototyping.git
(read-only)
Edit it with nano... Make sure you change the log file to be specific to you...
set("log.file.path","/tmp/<script>_YOURNAME.log")
and try to run it...
liquidsoap -v playlist.liq
2. Clone the respository to your laptop...
apt install liquidsoap
brew install liquidsoap
git clone ssh://git@git.xpub.nl:2501/XPUB/SI12-prototyping.git
Change the playlist to list local audio files... (NB: they need to be stereo)
Change "radioimplicancies.ogg" to whatever name you want...
Live or Fallback
- liquidsoap fallbacks
- mixing diverse sources of material...
- working with silence
- dynamics compression and loudness
- test streaming to an interruptable mount point...
- BASIC cutting / format manipulation with ffmpeg such as extracting chunks with a start / duration
Mixing audio sources
- Filtering for radio/streams:
- compression (as in Dynamic range compression different from audio data compression
- "Loudness" and "Normalisation"... What is replaygain and why can it help?
- liquidsoap for sound processing
Resources
- About the materiality of digital audio: samples, sampling rate, sample width, format, channels... See Sound and listening
- Playing "raw" and non-sound data ... See Sonification
- field recordings @ freemusicarchive
- William Burroughs: cut-ups + The Electronic Revolution
- Example: spectrumsort
- sound art on ubu
Assignment(s) for next week
- Make a "self-referential" radio program with liquidsoap... that is one where the content and the material of its transmission and its tools of production are reflected.
- Document your use of liquidsoap, or other tool(s) in the xpub wiki in the style of a (code) "Cookbook" recipe.
Listen together
- Listen: Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a room
- Listen: Janet Cardiff A Large Slow River
- Listen/watch: Laurie Anderson microphone piece
- Listen/watch: Gary Hill
Also for next week, check out Radio Aporee.
VOICE
- text to speech / speech synthesis
Specifically the case of [MBROLA](https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA) and the "free" but not "libre" voices. https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices
Espeak + MBrola https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md
Projects spɛl ænd spik. hellocatfood (antonio roberts) https://www.hellocatfood.com/spell-and-speak/
"real" VOICES http://librivox.org
- speech to text
- We Hope This Email Finds You Well
- festival provides *text2wave* which liquidsoap uses
- microphones
HRTF
- ASMR - HRTF ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VOLkehNz-8
- Spatilsation of Audio: https://www.york.ac.uk/sadie-project/database.html, head-related transfer functions (HRTFs)
- CLI spatialisation of audio: ffmpeg headphone, sofalizer
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/AudioChannelManipulation#VirtualBinauralAcoustics
PLAYER
Radio webpage
- Audio player (html/js)
- guest book cgi??!! (socially determined captcha !)
- Player: display metadata (Metadata from icecast? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115531/is-it-possible-to-get-icecast-metadata-from-html5-audio-element ) TRY!
- Generate podcast/RSS with json + Template (template.py(python+jinja)/makefile)
- Stream access (scheduling)
(meta/way of working Publishing via git/githook TRY! )
- random access media ?? (can an mp3 do a range request jump? or only ogg ??) depends on server, example of non-random access mp3
- ubu audio player as anti-pattern ?!
- html5 media fragments, and javascript
BOTS
- "posthuman" ... hayles
Cross system / bots (2 parts?)
- infobot
- eliza
- mud/moo
- Bot / chatroom
- Radio stream / schedule
- mediawiki API (pull + push) .. example of epicpedia?
- etherpad API (pull + push?) .. example of etherlamp (make js version?)
- Example of live log of chat , replayed with video recording...
See: https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/corpusfantastica-moo-and-lambda-projects
LEAVE A MESSAGE / RECORDER
See Leave a message
- https://mdn.github.io/web-dictaphone/ https://github.com/mdn/web-dictaphone/ (+ javascript looping / instrument) ... now how to save / submit ... (
- online recording interface... interface with CGI to save/serve files ?
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecorder
- https://github.com/mattdiamond/Recorderjs
- Angeliki Diakrousis http://radioactive.w-i-t-m.net/
- IDEA: Limit recordings to a fixed duration (data size)...
UNCATEGORIZED ;)
- gitea webhooks
- CGI to receive a JSON post
- php to receive JSON post (example on gitea webhooks page)
- CGI (making a "helloworld" / printenv with python) See CGI checklist
- Don't forget "sudo a2enmod cgi" and "sudo systemctl restart apache2" to enable the cgi module in Apache...
MIDI
- David Cope https://computerhistory.org/blog/algorithmic-music-david-cope-and-emi/ http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/5000.html
- Corneluis Cardew: Towards an Ethic of Improvisation The Great Learning
SUPERCUTS
- Example of marking up moments of stream / media links (in etherpad ... or outside player ??)... POC: js to make media links...
- Complementary ffmpeg commands to extract said portions...
- EXAMPLES of making supercuts of material...