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Latest revision as of 18:52, 2 December 2020
Special Issue 12
#12.0 23/04
With E.zn
Resources
- Deep Lab >> Ursula K. Le Guin
- Timeframe: 17:12 - 17:51
- Timeframe: 11:39 - 14:09
- Timeframe: 06:43 - 09:52
#12.1 / 14.05 / Imagining re-thinking and recording the world outside
With Anna
A stream of conscious, guided imagination, dreamy flow.
We had an online conversation documented on this pad
a stream of thoughts regarding different layers of stories
this is because we are living within a special, spacial soundscape
we are hyper aware to our surrounding right now
i felt i needed to connect with other people sound environment
i also wanted to come back home, sometimes
I miss the sounds of my city too
In this weird situation I feel they live in a different world
it really is a different world, we a different law
Anna: and it's just a basic movement jurisdiction
Anna: u are not allowed to hear more than this
Avi: sometimes when I wake up in the morning it takes me a while to realise where I am
I have really weird dreams since this whole thing started
tonight i dreamed about a train workers strike
it's more than two months that i am not taking a train
it is 2 months that we didn't meet as a class
I wonder if it will be weird to meet again, sit in the same place
i'm afraid to touch my face sometimes, i'm feeling like is the vehicle of a plague
it really is
sometimes I feel like this apartment is the only thing that exists
I go outside and everything seems like a hallucination
everyone is running everywhere
i think that Rotterdam now is like built on different tectonic plates
u have to jump to reach another island
strong physical structure is needed
that's why we are all exercising
u need to do push ups to see your relatives
maybe Rotterdam has drifted to another part of the world?
who knows?
maybe our location is further/closer to home
i'm sure it happened
this weather is too mediterranean
But for real, I have such weird dreams
I feel connected but yet disconnected
I have this invisible stress all the time
we just unlocked a new level
this is a really good way to explain how I feel, a new level
i feel the trees in my backyard are far more "saturated" than the ordinary
yes! the green here is crazy! not like any other green I saw before
i'm having this feeling when i'm going to the supermarket: i'm convinced that i will receive coins if i keep the 1.5 mt distance correctly
I get it, the streets we used to walk before feel different
is this a test about behaviour and citizens responsibility?
i'm sure someone is taking scores
There are a lot more people walking aimlessly, maybe they are looking for something familiar
I even notice the stores signs more, some of them are really a work of neon art
true, the miami coffee shop next to my place already stole my heart
such a tropical vibe
but we are soon landing on a desert somewhere, the mission is to repopulate it
better this time
The desert in Israel is big and beautiful
You can get lost there and at night it seems like you are on the moon
When I was 11 my father took me to the desert to watch a meteor shower
it was a great night
but you can really loose your mind in the desert
holy land!
do you have any sign to orient yourself?
only stones, trees (?)
i've been in a desert one time
it was flat and covered with salt
but pink flamingos too
in the army they teach you how to navigate using the north star
the stars are so bright in the desert
if you want to really see the starts you should go there
that makes me think about the mountains
you are so distant from anything else
you forget about the city, you are just above everything
but you always know where you are somehow, you never feel lost
that's nice I'm sure if you know the place you feel more comfortable in the dark as well
maybe not
is this just walking in the dark? i can't really keep distance between objects and thought approaching me
I think that sometimes its dark, sometime its light, sometimes its in-between
basically we have a broken shutter and we need to fix it
it doesn't have to be fixed, I think that is the situation most of the time
you are probably right, i just can't accept what i am seeing right know
I feel very powerless against the powers that are in play
we made a spillover
moving from a material to another
like the virus
I agree, this days I feel one with the virus
during the plague in the middle ages they used to believe than the disease derives from stinky air
because the cities in the 14 century started to be super crowded out of nowhere
of course the streets were full of excrements
they also started to wear masks, this sort of giant beak with perfumed oils inside
how do you think people in the future will call this time?
this is interesting
i think is a difficult question, i have to say we don't have really good names for the plagues of the past
also because they were a lot of them
they never end, they never start
Maybe we imagined them and they didn't really happen
I don't really believe in that but sometimes its hard to tell what is the truth
or what is reality
i can relate, and now i'm starting to reconsidering things that i always assumed they were true
maybe this is too strange
is stranger that fiction
and i starting to believe in fiction
I think now nothing is too strange
maybe we need do embrace it
this is the new truth
whatever that means
this is line 104, i think we need to eat
yes let's do it
Resources
- Field recordings from Israel, Italy
- "Storytelling from earthly survival" Donna Haraway
- "Always coming home" Ursula Le Guin
- Twin Peaks dream [1990]
#12.1 / 14.05 / Angry Women
With Sandra & E.zn
Resources
- Husbands by Nuriz Zarchi
- Strawberries by Yona Wallach [english version]
- Research 13 - Angry Women / Introduction p.4-5
- Juliana Huxtable - Mucus in My Pineal Gland
- Feminist Data Manifest-No
- I Am Not Your Negro [James Baldwin]
Strawberries / Yona Wallach
When you come to sleep with me
wear a black dress
printed with strawberries
and a black wide-brimmed hat
decorated with strawberries
and hold a basket of strawberries
and sell me strawberries
tell me in a sweet high voice
strawberries strawberries
who wants strawberries
don't wear anything underneath the dress
later
strings will lift you up
invisible or visible
and lower you
directly on my prick.
#12.3 / 28.05 / The Benefits of Patriarchy
With Damla
A talk between two women walking around Rotterdam West
This track is accompanied by this video, play them together:
Resources
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/business/women-react-to-sexism-in-the-workplace.html
- https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_bates_everyday_sexism?language=en
- In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate CrimesBy Barbara Perry: Page 84 - https://books.google.nl/books?id=doDHZXvq19YC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=i#v=onepage
Males as a group have and do benefit the most from patriarchy, from the assumption that they are superior to females and should rule over us. But those benefits have come with a price. In return for all the goodies men receive from patriarchy, they are required to dominate women, to exploit and oppress us, using violence if they must to keep patriarchy intact. Most men find it difficult to be patriarchs. Most men are disturbed by hatred and fear of women, by male violence against women, even the men who perpetuate this violence. But they fear letting go of the benefits. They are not certain what will happen to the world they know most intimately if patriarchy changes. So they find it easier to passively support male domination even when they know in their minds and hearts that it is wrong. ― bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics.
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur. ― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
#12.4 / 04.06 / A shift of power
With Max
Human - technology relationship is an unbalanced one. Technology, software and data are dictating our lives and we do not seem to care. What if we were in control of what lies behind a screen, will we continue to provide it with so much power? When did we stop contributing and start being ruled?
During our contributions the "power" is shifting between us, the contributors, the listeners and the machine.
The broadcast had 3 stages
1] Contributors power
Making our contribution using a script that takes text file, convert them to sound files with espeak, normalizing audio files and joining them all together to one audio file.
mkdir -p tmp mkdir -p contributions for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -y -i "$i" tmp/"${i%.mp3}.wav" done for a in *.txt; do espeak --stdout -f "$a" > tmp/"${a%.txt}.wav" done cp *.wav /var/www/html/radio/m_a/tmp cd /var/www/html/radio/m_a/tmp for x in *.wav; do ffmpeg -y -i "$x" -ar 44100 "${x%.wav}_lit.wav" done for y in *_lit.wav; do ffmpeg -y -i "$y" -ac 2 "${y%.wav}_final.wav" done sox *_final.wav output.wav ffmpeg -y -i output.wav output.ogg mv *_final.wav /var/www/html/radio/m_a/contributions mv output.ogg /var/www/html/radio/m_a/output.ogg cd /var/www/html/radio/m_a ls *output.ogg >> m_a.m3u rm -rf tmp
During our broadcast the listeners annotated in this pad
2] Listeners power
After broadcasting our contribution, we interfered the live broadcast with a new audio file that was generated live out of the contributions that were written in the pad (using espeak).
touch request.txt curl https://pad.xpub.nl/p/shiftofpower/export/txt > request.txt; line_no=$(cat request.txt | wc -l) input="request.txt" i=0 while IFS= read -r line do i=$((i+1)) touch "$i"_request.txt echo "$line" > "$i"_request.txt done < "$input" for x in *_request.txt do espeak --stdout -f "$x" > "${x%.txt}".wav done sox *_request.wav finalreq.wav mkdir -p contributions rm request*txt mv *request* /var/www/html/radio/m_a/contributions cd /var/www/html/radio/m_a/contributions rm *.txt
We added this to the general liquidsoap script so we can interrupt the live streaming (adding another mount point)
radio = fallback(track_sensitive=false, [input.http("http://echo.lurk.org:999/m_a_live.ogg"), radio])
3] Machine power
Finally, the machine takes all the audio file that were broadcast, edit them to snippets and plays them randomly (using shuf. During the broadcast an unexpected thing happend and the audio file was really slowed down, proving the point that we didn't have control over it.
cd /var/www/html/radio/m_a/contributions mkdir -p tmp for i in *.wav; do ffmpeg -y -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:03.00 -i "$i" tmp/"${i%.wav}_cut.wav" done for x in *.wav; do ffmpeg -y -ss 00:00:10 -t 00:00:03.00 -i "$x" tmp/"${x%.wav}2_cut.wav" done cd /var/www/html/radio/m_a/contributions/tmp touch playlist.m3u ls *_cut.wav >> playlist.m3u shuf -o random.m3u playlist.m3u cp random.m3u random.txt sed '1d' random.txt > temp.txt sed "s/^/file '/" temp.txt > random.txt rm temp.txt sed -e "s/$/'/" random.txt > temp.txt rm random.txt mv temp.txt random.txt ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i random.txt -c copy random.wav ffmpeg -y -i random.wav random.ogg mv random.ogg /var/www/html/radio/m_a/random.ogg cd ../ #rm -rf tmp
We used a script that will generate stage 2+3 in one command line
bash curltwo.sh sleep 5 bash random.sh sleep 3 touch ashiftofpower.m3u echo /var/www/html/radio/m_a/finalreq.wav >> ashiftofpower.m3u echo /var/www/html/radio/m_a/silence.ogg >> ashiftofpower.m3u echo /var/www/html/radio/m_a/random.ogg >> ashiftofpower.m3u liquidsoap -v max_live.liq
Resources
- Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
- Nishant Shah: From GUI to No UI
"Kids learn how to use popular spreadsheet, word processing, and browsing software so that they can operate effectively in the high-tech workplace. These basic skills may make them more employable for the entry level cubicle jobs of today, but they will not help them adapt to the technologies of tomorrow. Their bigger problem is that their entire orientation to computing will be from the perspective of users. When a kid is taught a piece of software as a subject, she’ll tend to think of it like any other thing she has to learn. Success means learning how to behave in the way the program needs her to. Digital technology becomes the immutable thing, while the student is the movable part, conforming to the needs of the program in order to get a good grade on the test."
"As we lose the ability to program the world’s computers, we lose the world’s computing business as well. This may not be a big deal to high-tech conglomerates who can as easily source their programming from New Delhi as New Hampshire. But it should be a big deal to us. Instead, we see actual coding as some boring chore, a working-class skill like bricklaying, which may as well be outsourced to some poor nation while our kids play and even design video games. We look at developing the plots and characters for a game as the interesting part, and the programming as the rote task bett er offloaded to people somewhere else. We lose sight of the fact that the programming—the code itself—is the place from which the most significant innovations emerge."
"We cannot truly communicate, because we have no idea how the media we are using bias the messages we are sending and receiving. Our senses and our thoughts are already clouded by our own misperceptions, prejudices, and confusion. Our digital tools add yet another layer of bias on top of that. But if we don’t know what their intended and accidental biases are, we don’t stand a chance of becoming coherent participants in the digital age. Programming is the sweet spot, the high leverage point in a digital society. If we don’t learn to program, we risk being programmed ourselves."
#12.6 / 18.06 / quest a / a quest
Getting lost in someone else’s mind, It’s a different world I must say. This is a deep exploration of an algorithm that does not belong to me.
Resources
1. Noise Unit - A Place to Lay Your Head
3. Lula Côrtes - Nordeste Oriental
4. Clock DVA -The Sonology of Sex 1
9. Maria Monti - La Pecora Crede Di Essere Un Cavallo
10. Mammy - の中のひみつ
11. Vangelis - We Were All Uprooted