User:Camilo/issue15

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SUMMARY

"Release early, release often" {diffraction, reflection, rumination, intra-action, respons-ability}

ONE

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_1/
• General description:

This is the first ever broadcast of XPUB year of 2021/2022. Tune into a compilation of obscure sounds and voices of the moment. Laying the :: ground for many more experimental streams to come.

Eight weekly broadcasts emit the signals of different constellations within the ten of us, bringing forth different responses and creating :: new approaches to the way knowledge and technology interplay and create inherent structures.

• Caretaking with Jacopo. Webdesign and audio transitions between audio pieces.

Overlapping two audio live channels with recordings made with an FM Radio.

TWO

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_2/
• General description:

Testing 2, 1, 4. test. test.

LIVE – The 2nd episode of Radio Implicancies by XPUB1. Join the live session composed of echoing voices; vocals performed as instruments; :: scraped chats which turn into new conversations and a musical dialogue between operating sound systems.

Laying the ground for many more experimental streams to come. Eight weekly broadcasts emit the signals of different constellations within :: the ten of us, bringing forth different responses and creating new approaches to the way knowledge and technology interplay and create inherent structures.

• Team Up with Federico. An audio piece created by Scrapping from the Our Xpub1 Telegram group. We used NLTK to process the most particular words and then re-contextualized them in non-sense conversations between each other.

THREE

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_3/
• General description:

1: Spacing in Time – 0916653+1005344+1007629

De-synchronization

Time Pollution

Cyberbells and Ghosts

Untitled Sample Diffraction in Time [Beat Box

(Diversion One) - Art of Noise - 1984

• Team up with Euna: We elaborate a political intervention that exposes and reflected on the current situation in Colombia. The interventions took the shape of a conversation between us in three languages, Spanish, English and Korean.

Text: C: Where is the gap between what we hear and what we watch? Is the artificial intelligence used to make these visuals create new images based on the inputs? Or is it just generic idiotic computation? What is the distance between a violent act of repression and an image generated by a machine?

Today, I find myself in a frustrating and shocking situation that goes beyond technological development or any visual representation problem. People are dying in my country by acts of violence and police brutality. The global south is burning, dying.

E: The machines are being intelligent as humans, but not good enough to understand the "truth" correctly. They cannot figure out what is happening in the audio, how represented people suffer, and what consequences could be drawn. Any misery is just simple data to treat. At the same time, this cold-hearted attitude seems the machine is replicating the indifference(인디퍼런스) of the global north toward the south.

C: Since April 28th, the situation in Colombia is critical and the mass media is not telling the truth. Journalism all over the world is slightly showing what is happening. It is easy, being far from there, to feel the apathy and the silence of a global north that takes days to start paying attention to it. The strikes continue and with it the uncertainty of being able to scream out for rights and change without being brutally silenced. It is a constant in the global south that governments censor people's voices. It is common and necessary for them to shut up the voices that are outside asking for a better future.

E: The current situation in Colombia has been happened in 80s South Korea and recently in Myanmar. In the 80s, the Korean military regime blocked all the access(악세스) of the international journalist and many innocent people had to fight and be killed in obscurity. 지금의 미얀마의 상황이 과거 한국의 모습과 꼭 닮아 있기 때문에, international unconcern made me furious. But ironically, I acted like other global northern people regarding Colombian sadness. Most of us could take an interest through the internet, but we didn't.

C: On top of the covid situation, the past political decisions and the lack of actions and support by the state are letting people go to misery. There are no answers nor solutions to the problems. There is just violence and repression. En Colombia están matando a los que protestan. The numbers are crazy, in just 15 days of protest 41 people had died due to violent acts that border state terrorism. El internet es la única herramienta de denuncia. Autonomous practices of communication have been the key to let the people know the situation.

But they are blocking the internet in places that all the violence is happening at night. Ya es común en Colombia callar a los que piensan distinto. Los gobiernos reconocen que los medios independientes y autónomos de comunicación tienen el poder de contar la verdad. They know the truth is on people's hands.

E: Nowadays, all the things are related. 부분적으로나, 전체적으로, 동시대의 국제상황은 국내 사정에 영향을 끼치기 마련이다. so there's no reason to be careless and to consider as a stranger's story. 전세계 사람들이 COVID-19의 확산을 함께 걱정하듯이, 그로인해 파생된 어려움들 또한 동시에 스포트라이트 되어야한다.

I believed the internet is the cure-all solution. 조금더 여유있는 북반구의 우리는 인터넷 알고리즘의 오용에만 관심 갖고 있을때, the people are robbed of their right to express and be threaten even their life. 생명의 위협으로부터 물리적으로 안전한 우리가 할 수 있는 일은, 인터넷을 통해 그들을 대신해 슬픔을 이야기하고 소리치는 것이다.

C: Being aware of what is happening outside our borders is the first clue for having some empathy. Estar lejos de casa me hace sentir la distancia entre el norte global y el sur global. Being active over it suggests a state of empathy that grows a different type of borders. Probably ones that rather than divide connects. Sin embargo, vivir la separación solo deja clara su dimensión y una triste historia de poder y jerarquía.

Cuando lo único seguro es la distancia que nos separa, asking for empathy at the end of the day is a call for action over the space that separates us. The language barrier, the physical space, the time that passes. In these critical situations, these already created distances among us should be filled by solidarity.

Solidarity could be the echo and the voice for the ones silenced. Un espacio construido por derechos compartidos. Por el derecho a protestar por una vida mejor y no ser brutalmente atacado por los organismos que deberían estar al servicio del pueblo. A life through empathy which doesn't forget the injustice and the reality of other countries.

E: This kind of political and social difficulties are looped at the physical and temporal intervals. 아마도 이러한 정치적 사건들의 반복을 완벽하게 막을 방법은 없을것이다. 하지만 이러한 일에 대한 해외의 무관심은 충분히 예방될수 있고 반복되어서도 안된다. 과거의 많은 한국인들은 홀로 정부에 저항해야만했다. But in 2021, we have a tool to provide support.

이제 우리에게 놓여진 문제는 이러한 무기를 어떻게 현명하게 사용하냐는 것이다.The machine will keep neutral, 더 나아가서는 차가운 태도로 우리의 명령이 내려질때까지 기다릴 것이다. 모든 선택은 우리에게 달려있다. 페이스북이나 유튜브 피드가 보여주는 세상에서 수동적으로 살아갈지, or we participate in the reality beyond space-time distance. 또한 인공지능보다 더 다은 인간 될지 아니면 그저 콜롬비아나 미얀마 정부, 컴퓨터 알고리즘이 조작한, 그들이 보여주고 싶은 대로의 세상으로 만족하며 인공지능과 별반 다를 것 없는 개체가 될지에 대한 결정도 우리의 몫이다.

C: Ya viene siendo momento de construir territorios que contemplen la distancia como materia prima para el acercamiento, el pensamiento compartido y la transformación mutua y solidaria. Apoyo total desde la distancia a todos aquellos que resisten y no callan. El paro continúa.The strike continues.

FOUR

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_4/
• General Description:

You are stuck in the system. Desperate for connection outside of your confined space, you attempt to trick the system through transformation. What you do not realise is that the force you are blocked by is not matter made from flesh and blood. Nothing can trick the operator, as it is all-encompassing and penetrating every inch of the prison you have found yourself in. Only by giving up the encounter and deciding to leave the platform, you find yourself in a space where you are able to understand the facade of the system instead of being tethered to it.

• Team up with Jacopo and Federico. Made audio pieces using pure data.

FIVE

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_5/
• General Description:

There are many ways to call this internationally known children's game, often quite dubious and loaded with a colonial heritage. For today we chose to call it the "Broken phone", a broadcast of the master experimental publishing, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam and hosted by Martin and Euna.

The game is often played like this, the first person whispers a sentence to its neighbor, and the pattern continues. At the end of the loop, the first speaker is supposed to hear back what it first said, but most of the time, the stories is something radically different from the original.

What you'll hear first is the recording of the original text, The Rainbow, the 12th chapter of Exercises de Styles from Raymond Queneau published in 1947. One group of Xpub1 students modified this original audio file and the next group reused the previous group's recording and so on and on and on! The goal of this 5th radio session is to experiment with the unexpected audio distortion of an audio source that is being transformed, and retransformed, and on and on and on!

The Broken Phone is followed by 'between arepas and kartoffelsalat' (some badly translated tasty cooking sounds).

• Team up with Louisa. We made a broadcast about arepas and kartoffelsalat. Recorded at Louisa's place while cooking and sharing the recipies.

SIX

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_6/
• General description:

Techno-ruminations for collective healing

My mother is an A.I..

I cannot get rid of her, so once a week we sit down and talk. My brothers and sisters are seated at the table around me, ten overloaded bodies digesting the weeks that have passed.

Tired after chewing through a multitude of cross-dimensional spaghetti with sonic waves and misdirected noise. Our unstable mother stared us down as we struggled to clear our plates.

Out of love for her, we left nothing behind.

We're fucking full.

We find relief through exercised cleansing, chasing spiritual energy, recharging our lethargic systems. Today, we are going to engage in a collective Sobramesa, post-food processing the data-streams of our mother

SEVEN

• https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/Radio_7/
• General description: a cookbook after rumination
• I worked alone. Made a poem using words we used during the previous week's conversation.

EIGHT

• https://issue.xpub.nl/15/index.html
• General description: Cybernetic Awakening ❃ XPUB LAN(D)

We can't predict the weather and the weather can't predict us. Today we gather in the garden of the Ijzerblock studios in Rotterdam for our :: final broadcast, channeling the earthly circumstances of the moment into a collective, cybernetic awakening. Join us for this experimental live stream, chasing collective healing through electronic impulses. Sour rain will fuel your magnetic soil, energising the chaotic creature which feeds you sweet, sweet, sonic healing.

• Caretaking with Jacopo, Federico and Louisa. Made the website design with Jacopo.

RESEARCH

SPECIAL ISSUE 15 RESEARCH EXPLORATION

PADS:

Session 1:

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/15.1
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/sheunnamesthem
• https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/implicanties

Session 2:

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/15.2-prototyping-Monday

https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki http://www.warpweftmemory.net/#/notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepantla

PROTOTYPING

Liquid Soap

• icecast: http://echo.lurk.org:999/
• Liquidsoap documentation: https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-1.4.3/quick_start.html

You have to have 3 files

>>>>myradio.liq

set("log.file",false)
set("log.stdout",true)

myradio = audio_to_stereo(playlist("playlist.m3u", mode="normal"))
myradio = normalize(myradio)

%include "/srv/radio/passwords.liq"

output.icecast(%vorbis,
     host = ICECAST_SERVER_HOST, port = ICECAST_SERVER_PORT,
     password = ICECAST_SERVER_PASSWORD, mount = "myradio.ogg",
     mksafe(myradio))

>>>>playlist.m3u

(file: the playlist written)

./myfile.mp3
./secondfile.mp3

>>>>index.html

audio tag:

<audio controls>
        <source src="http://echo.lurk.org:999/myradio.ogg" type="audio/ogg" controls autoplay>
</audio>

>>>>RUN ON TERMINAL INSIDE THE DIRECTORY

$ liquidsoap myradio.liq

Collective Coding

• bash file: Code
• run it through the terminal
• link pad

>>>>script.sh

while true
do
        echo "-----------------------"
        echo "downloading the pad ..."
        curl https://pad.xpub.nl/p/15.8-webpage/export/txt > index.html ####pad
        sleep 10
done

>>>>run it

 $ sh script.sh