Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Special Issue #22: September - December 2023

In collaboration with Radio WORM

This page contains NOTES IN PROGRESS...

WEEK 1

Monday 18 September

• 10u - 13u: Kick off with Michael + Manetta + Joseph + Steve + Lidia visit Radio Worm + welcome with Ash Kilmartin + Lukas Simonis, LOCATION: WORM (adress: Boomgaardsstraat 71, we will leave from the XPUB studio to walk together, meet at 9:30)
• 14u - 17u: prototyping with Michael, in the Aquarium (back at the school)

Introducing the project

USB stick / pipeline audio file exercise... Fundamentals on ... Active Archives? Amy Spencer text about Pirate Radios Read a text live (Tuesday session) INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL... Group discussion: Introduce Hand Signals : Speaking / Feeling PROTOCOL...

Tuesday 19 September

• 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + listening session, with Michael + Joseph + Manetta

PLAYLIST INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL Reading

• 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping, with Joseph + Manetta

introduce prototyping install yourself into XPUB1: set up collective server, decide on a name, command line quick intro, jupyter interface intro make folders to collect radio recordings + created audio pieces

Wednesday 20 September

Methods class with Steve + Lídia

Friday 22 September

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 2

Monday 25 September

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• 10:00 - 12:00 morning: meet Lieuwe / Hard drives ?
• 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

learning from other audio projects/radio archives exercise, manipulating/reading/transforming HTML cutups ... taking existing pages, looking at sources, saving (as local copies) and manipulating. (Maybe (not yet) examples with webaudio api / but maybe nice to have some examples to show that further filtering /effects is possible) HTML/CSS Question of the code editor + FTP/Filezilla access to the server + working offline List of audio projects/radio archives:

   audio projects
   http://www.publicrec.org/archive/2-01/2-01-014/2-01-014.html
   https://rec-on.org/
   radio archives
   https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts
   https://rururadio.org/
   https://radionopal.com/archivo/
   https://thenifty.radio/archives/
   https://radioensayo.com/via
   https://fugitive-radio.net/
   https://linktr.ee/taifinalert
   https://www.wazaradio.org/
   https://kollektiv-eigenklang.com/
   https://cashmereradio.com/
   https://sharedfrequencies.live/
   https://sounds.lumbung.space/library/podcasts
   https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/
   https://kunstradio.at/
   https://ridderradio.com/
   http://cba.fro.at
   https://jokebux.klingt.org/gro.tgnilk/jokebux.html

Tuesday 26 September

• 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
• 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

HTML/CSS continued Making a sound board / versioning Parliament What materials do we work with here? Can we use material from the hard drives? And ask the students to make snippets/jingles in audacity? (download tools: wget/youtube-dl) (ffmpeg to compress an MP3, place it in a HTML....)

Friday 29 September

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 3

Monday 2 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• morning: Willem de Ridders radio "De Radiola Improvisatie Salon" and tape obsession "Walkman walks" (hardware without software)

https://worm.org/2023/01/05/ode-to-willem-de-ridder-on-radio-worm/ https://en.glissando.pl/text/the-story-of-a-performer-the-story-of-an-item-willem-de-ridders-tape-experiments/ https://showcase.thebluebus.nl/music/various-projects/radiola-salon https://monoskop.org/images/2/22/De_Ridder_Retrospective_1983.pdf [p. 84]

• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Guest: Florian??

Tuesday 3 October

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

Linear and non-linear media

Sound analog/digital editing battery + speaker sox to generate files with different sampling rates, bit depths, and

Wednesday 4 October

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 6 October

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 4

Monday 9 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

screenplay diagrams (speech to text with Vosk)

Tuesday 10 October

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta (Die Maschine)
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

screenplay diagrams (Python intro → POS tagging → graphviz; or just plain text if this is too much)

Wednesday 11 October

Methods class with Steve

Friday 13 October

12:30 - 13:30: Outside/Parallel event of interest: Laurence Rassel @ PZI link on wdka research site

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 5

Autumn vacation

WEEK 6

Monday 23 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 24 October

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session (curated playlist of examples to listen to) with Michael + Joseph
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

(maybe HPSCHD)... Radio Art auto derby https://www.nporadio5.nl/fragmenten/theatervanhetsentiment/206abe94-3dc9-471c-b2ed-881805382ea6/2021-09-19-willem-de-ridder-zorgt-voor-files-in-de-polder-met-zijn-grote-oto-derby-1978 Make re-enactments? (Field recordings) https://www.kunstradio.at/2010A/14_03_10.html audio cutups (audio grep, SRT/timecode) Building casette tape loops

Wednesday 25 October

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 27 October

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 7

Monday 30 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 31 October

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 1 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 3 November

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

Saturday 4 November + Sunday 5 November

Zine camp! : XPUB Stand + Possibilities for Workshops + Presentations

• SI22 pre-launch! First search engine interactions with an audience.
• XPUB table with shelve

WEEK 8

Monday 6 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 7 November

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 8 November

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 10 November

INC Event in Amsterdam This will be a "hybrid" event, partially live with room for "prerecorded" elements

WEEK 9

Monday 13 November

• morning: no class
• afternoon: prototyping support with Manetta

Tuesday 14 November

• morning: Radio Worm! / prototyping support with Manetta
• afternoon: prototyping support with Manetta

Wednesday 15 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 17 November

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 10

Monday 20 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 21 November

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 22 November

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 24 November

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 11

Monday 27 November

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
-- SPECIAL GUEST ?? Ahnjili ZhuParris (tentative)

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 28 November

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
• afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 29 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 1 December

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 12

Monday 4 December

Special Issue with Michael

• morning:
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 5 December

• morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
• afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Manetta

Wednesday 6 December

Methods class with Lídia

Thursday 7 December

"Launch" @ Worm? Final show, wrap up with Radio Worm.... TBD

Friday 8 December

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)