Signal Lost: Archive Unzipped - Script

Section 1: Regular Radio

Introductions

🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track Connecting_to_the_ether.mp3

🎵 Play show 1 introduction track [show_1_introduction.mp3

Anita: Huh? This is not what's in my script at all...
Thijs: Is it not?
Mania: I think it is. Wasn't the whole idea of today's show to reuse material from previous shows, and delve deeper into our archive.
Anita: Yeah, but this audio fragment doesn't mention the themes of today right? Community, repurposing material, the gift economy...
Thijs: Do you have another proposal?
Mania: Ohh, play the one from the second show!
Anita: Okay! I'll tell you what my introduction is like.

🎵 Play show 2 introduction track [show_1_introduction.mp3

Anita: Well, that was my introduction. What do you think?
Thijs: Hmmm, I don't know. It's not what is written in my script.
Mania: It is not? 
[MORE SCRIPT]
Thijs: Here, I'll tell you what my introduction is like. 

🎵 Play some jingle or background music

Thijs: Good Morning! You're tuned into Protocols for an Active Archive, the 22nd XPUB Special Issue, where students from the Piet Zwart Art Institute Experimental Publishing Master explore and create technosocial protocols for potential active archives of Radio Worm, while making radio themselves. 
This will, sadly, be our last broadcast. In 12 shows over the past 3 months, we have accumulated our own archive of work. This show will be dedicated to celebrating the Worm archive, celebrating the communities surrounding Radio Worm and think about ways to extrapolate the discourse surrounding archiving.
Today's show will be structured as follows:
OUTLINE:
    1 Introduce the show and establishing a theme of reusing material.
      Play snippets from previous shows. There is confusion about what into is the proper intro.
    2 Establish the theme of community by playing the breakfast protocol.
    3 Make a connection to the concept of the gift economy.
      Play the generated snippet.
    4
    5
    6

Anita: 
Mania: 
Thijs: Cool, okay. Let's continue to the next section then: establish the theme of community.

Breakfast Protocol

Mania: We have been making the Protocols for an Active Archive radio show as a group. Every week, 3 people were selected as caretakers who would give extra care to the preparations of the show, and who would be present in the studio. Typically, the rest of the group would listen together -- in a space called The Aquarium, a place where our minds can collaboratively explore the archival oceans. 
Protocols for and Active Archive is a morning show, airing between 10 and 12 a.m. We took this opportunity to have a shared potluck breakfast. The segment we are about to listen to was part of the show of that day.

🎵 Play breakfast_protocol.mp3

Thijs: That was The Breakfast Protocol, from our 4th broadcast. We didn't know each other before starting this program, the Special Issue is the first project we're doing together. The shared breakfast was a pivotal moment for us as a group: taking the initiative to experience it together, enhancing the broadcast from an individual event to a shared one. It provided a feeling of community that continued to fuel the subsequent weeks of the project.

Gift Economy

Anita: Today, we want to focus on a specific type of community: the gift economy.
MORE SCRIPT GOES HERE

🎵 Play description of gift economy

Scratch Orchestra

Thijs: acts of giving and receiving can be literal, but also figurative. A gift economy can be as much more than a rigid, sterotypical concept of economy. It can be seen as a basis for exchange. Any exchange. Exchange that transcends the idea of economy. Exchange of language, ideas and understanding. It creates a mindset, and safe space. Giving each other freedom, and opportunity to experiment. In that sense, the act of shared improvisation can be seen as a gift economy. With this in mind, we will now revisit the Scratch Orchestra.

Section 3: Revelation Improvisation

In this section, we will do collaborative improvisation like we did during the show on November 28. The setting is similar: an apocalyptic event has just occured.

We have selected snippets from the interviews and placed them in a soundboard. We can use these during our improvisation, to suggest these people being part of our conversation.

Soundboard -->

Panic and exposition

A30. I'm SO glad our tap water is up to par.

A13. So obviously there is this fear that something is destroyed or lost.

A12. Someone came to an event at WORM and broke into the room at Pirate Bay and slept there.

A23. F*** this get this out of the archive!

Transition from panic to community

A26. There are always things that are lost and things that get added. So I mean it's a natural cycle of information or independence or whatever you're gaining, there's some loss that comes with that.

I9. It makes things a lot easier for yourself when you know that people are just as overwhelmed, just as stressed,  just as confused and just as all over the place as you are.

I15. Worm taught me, All you really need to build a community is people who are interested in doing so 

Starting a community

A6. This media being shared is in itself a payment.

A21. As soon as this archive stops being a community archive, it loses it's value.

I8. It really feels like I belong to  Rotterdam, and I think part of what allows me to feel this way is obviously my friends, and my community, and my people but also having spaces like Worm.

A1. Oh I often feel like poeple see archiving as this process of gathering and keeping safe, I guess. But, I mean, if you take archiving out of this institutional and Western context, archiving has been a way of creating and building community and art for, like, years, within thousands of indiginous cultures. I mean, oral history is a form of archival practise, and that in itself is like, as we've seen, an artistic way of providing information.

Creating an EMERGENCY MESSAGE

I3. I really like the idea of getting to know people, chatting with people, and figuring out how we can all collaborate with our individual skills and strenghts and make a project.

A2. So I really like the idea of an archive being anything but the structure we've already got. So, like, there's so much space for the process to become the end goal.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES

For the final ~5 minutes, we play emergence messages on repeat:

EMERGENCY MESSAGES -->