Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Special Issue #22: September - December 2023

In collaboration with Radio WORM

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For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! Michael Murtaugh (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)

Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.

SI22 pads and wiki pages

• Protocols pad
• Category:Protocol
• Collective guidelines
• Worm reflections pad
• Future broadcast ideas pad

WEEK 1

Monday 18 September

• 10:00 - 13:00 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)
• 14:00 - 17:00 prototyping with Michael, in the Aquarium (back at the school)

Introducing the project: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive (Week 1)

PAD of the week

• Protocols pad
• The protocol category: Category:Protocol
• Making a collective field recording audio collage
• Group discussion: Introduce Hand Signals : Speaking / Feeling PROTOCOL...
• Select initial caretakers for tomorrow morning
• Readings for next week: Barthes, Phelan, Foucault?
• Read a text live (material for Tuesdays broadcast)? ... Read aloud protocol
• Prerecording a tape for Tuesday 19

Tuesday 19 September

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week1
• 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + listening session, with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
• Caretakers meet (with Florian Cramer, tbc) at WORM at 9:45. Others will meet in the aquarium/XPUB to listen.

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

11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Steve + Lídia

Info on today's seminar and links to resources here:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/20-09-2023_-Event_1

Read and upload here:

BarthesRadio

Friday 22 September

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

WEEK 2

Monday 25 September

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• 10:00 - 13:00 morning: meet Lieuwe Zelle and the hard drive + Active Archives
• 14:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-25

Naming the server pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/naming-the-pi

(notes below)

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: The Laurence Rassel Show, + exercises, listening session with Michael + Manetta
• 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Today's shownotes: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week2

Radio broadcast script: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Radio_%F0%9F%AA%B1_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93

Radio broadcast reflections: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/worm_reflections

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-26

(notes below)

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....)

Readings for next week

first I think the two articles Maria X posted are nicely relevant to what we’ll be covering next week, so give them a look:

@_Maria Χ|74 said:

Some nice readings:

(a) A link to the editorial of vol. 25, issue 2 (2002) of *The Journal for Media History*, which contains a long, very enlightning paragraph on the definition of "radio archives". The whole article (in fact the whole issue) is worth reading: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.841

(b) An article from the same issue, good to skim through in order to understand the concept of "silent radio archive": https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.822

and second, a text from German theater maker and theoretician Bertolt Brecht, The Radio as a Communications Apparatus )

Happy Reading and see you next Monday!

Friday 29 September

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

WEEK 3

Monday 2 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• 10:00 - 12:00: Week III of Special Issue 23 is about transmission and streaming
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Oct-02

Reading for next week

• All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill
• George Perec's Thinking Machines, Chapter 2 in Mainframe Experimentalism, see zulip for access and proper link

Tuesday 3 October

• 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
• Snownotes pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week3

Wednesday 4 October

Methods class with Lídia

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/04-10-2023_-Event_2

Friday 6 October

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

WEEK 4

Monday 9 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• 10:00 check in protocols/care takers + check in with reading
• 11:30 short break
• 11:45 navigating /media/worm/
• 12:15 working with CSS Paged Media
• 13:00 BREAK
• 14:00 exercises: generating scripts
• 17:00 end of the day

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Oct-09

Tuesday 10 October

• 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + breakfast-listening session with Michael + Manetta (Die Maschine)
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta
  • scripts/flowcharts with graphviz
  • CSS session?
  • plotter time!

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Tuesday-Oct-10

Zine camp conversation pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/zine-camp-2023

Outcomes of today: Flowcharts/graphs (made with Graphviz)

• question of activating the archive:
  • https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~v/activearchive.svg
  • https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~river/graphviz/activating.svg
• question of time: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~thijsoid/prototyping/graphviz/time.svg
• question of inside/outside the archive: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~mxrwho/insideout.dot.svg
• question of accessibility: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~zerozeta/acesibility_with_one_c.dot.svg
• question of consent: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~senak/consent.dot.svg

Wednesday 11 October

• 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve

Outcomes: A GLOSSARY for a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE + Visual map of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE.

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed-11-Oct23

Visual map

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

References:

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

Addition to small library: Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf

11:00 Review progress;

Intro: The Annotated Problems of Annotation are Problems of the Masses (some links and rabbit holes).

From 11:30 work on

AM: Visual Map (use to gather words for glossary)

PM: Glossary for an Active Archive

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

GLOSSARY of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE

Definition (general)

Definition (as used by us)

Mentioned in:

In use (in context; example)

Glossary of productive play

This is a TEST PAGE

Prototype for a Glossary

WORDHOLE

Wordhole as a list

As Category

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Wordhole

Thinking forward: Reader: transcluded entries from the Wordhole are built around texts for the reader on a wiki page.

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

Autumn vacation

WEEK 6

Monday 23 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• 10:00 - 13:00: Week 6 of SI23 is "live-to-tape" its about ability of recording sound (analog, digital), ...
• 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Oct-23

Tuesday 24 October

• 10:00 - 12:00: morning: Radio Worm! + listening session (curated playlist of examples to listen to) with Michael + Joseph
  • Shownotes and pad for the Radio Show: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week5
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Tue-24-Oct23

(notes below)

(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

• 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Lídia

Outcome for the day: Paraphrasing practice while going down the Wordhole + reader brainstorm session

In the fourth Methods session, we will dive deeper into the Wordhole, among others, by practicing our paraphrasing skills.

Timetable:
11:00 - 11:30 Check-in round (INC, Zine Camp, visual map)
11:30 - 13:00 Intro to paraphrasing + short exercise using Wordhole
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Going down the Wordhole
16:00 - 16:30 Reader brainstorm session
16:30 - 17:00 Wrap-up

PAD OF THE DAY: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed25Oct23Methods

Friday 27 October

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

WEEK 7

Monday 30 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

• 10:00 - 13:00: reviewing prototypes
• 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta + Michael

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Oct-30

(sharing prototypes mostly for zine camp, collective work, distributive practices, proposals for this)

Tuesday 31 October

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

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Tuesday-Oct-31 (pandoc examples based on pads and mediawiki, css session)

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/worm_reflections (for notes + reflections on today's broadcast)

Wednesday 1 November

• 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve
• Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed01Nov23Methods

Today's sesh:

Using the Wordhole to articulate Active Archive SI

Note: the Wordhole, has a very stable structure (which is provided in part by the syntax of Wikimedia), there is room for play and experiment with media (sound files and video links) and modes of address.

Agenda:

Discuss Zine Camp; live radio performance.

+ Use the Wordhole to codify various ways you have found to work together as "protocols" or "rituals". How can such "protocols" or "rituals" guide a performance like Sunday's live radio broadcast (or other moments)?

+ Use the Wordhole to describe individual practices you have developed in relation to Active Archive SI

+ Consider "Collaborative" and "Distributive" practices

As in Scratch Orchestra, discussed in: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses

+ Paraphrasing down the Wordhole.

+ How can the Wordhole work for the Reader we are producing? (providing summaries, describing practices and processes developed during Active Archive SI)

WORDHOLE

Wordhole as a list

As Category

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Wordhole

Outline:

Practices performed

Elements produced

Things planned

12:00

In 300 words (approx), unpack a 'practice performed'; use material description (what, how, why) to detail a particular activity you have done in relation to Radio Worm-Active Archive project.

13:00 LUNCH

14:00

Upload on to Wordhole - Granular Archive (as set?). Embellish with sound files, images, video &c

(Make single page and transclude on Wordhole page.)

Make another entry (entries)

15:30

In groups of two: line edit text on wiki together.

Friday 3 November

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

Saturday 4 November + Sunday 5 November

Zine camp! : XPUB Stand + Possibilities for Presentation and Presence in studio (* not conflicting with any already scheduled programming)

• SI22 pre-launch!
• XPUB table with shelve

WEEK 8

Monday 6 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• 10:00 - 13:00: Meet in Aquarium
• 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Mon_6_11_23

Tuesday 7 November

• 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph + (Recorded program from WORM ?)
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Tue_Nov_7_2023

Wednesday 8 November

• 11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Lídia

Today, we will be splitting in three groups for a writing exercise. Each group will be assigned a different type of text (fiction, interview, field report) to write about the process of working collaboratively on this SI. The outcomes of this exercise will be uploaded to the Wordhole.

• Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed08Nov23Methods

Friday 10 November

• 13-16: Hybrid event: ONLINE & Amsterdam (Participation via chat)

Airtime Screentime Facetime: a Live-Publication

• About / schedule (INC)
• Live event (thehmm)

• 15:10: Chapter 4: Forms of Hybridity (conversation Sepp E. + Michael)
• 15:40: extract XPUB Radio

WEEK 9

Monday 13 November

• 10:00 - 13:00: no class
• 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta

Tuesday 14 November

• 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! (up to you to decide if you want to do it)
• 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta

pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-14-broadcast

Wednesday 15 November

• 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-15Methods

Suggested agenda

Catch up discussion with whole group.

Discuss the Wordhole as medium for reader

Today’s session: Getting to know the apocalypse.

Outcome: collectively annotate (and discuss the affordance of) the apocalypse metaphor, using the wordhole as a medium.

Wordhole

In recent weeks you have been developing performative ways of writing on the issues raised by SI 22. Use today’s class to develop those skills further. Remember, sound-files, videos, texts and multiple modes of address are all possible in the wordhole.

Friday 17 November

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

WEEK 10

Monday 20 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

• 10:00 - 13:00: Machine Listening workshop with Ahnjili ZhuParris
• 14:00 - 17:00 : prototyping

Ahnjili ZhuParris: Machine Listening Workshop

How can a computer understand voice. Beyond applications like speech to text, tuning an audio recording into a text transcription, what other ways can voice be represented (pace, hesitation, changes of pitch). How can these representations be used to index and (re) order audio, and how can machine learning techniques be applied to group or classify audio. Beyond the hype of AI that can do anything, what is actually still a challenge for algorithmic approaches to voice. What dangers exist with these techniques, and how can one remain a critical practitioner exploring urgent and relevant questions while engaging with these new tools?

Ahnjili ZhuParris is a data scientist with a critical artist practice. She will also be participating at the Impakt festival in Utrecht this November.

Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/workshop-20231120-ahnjili-zhuparris

Tuesday 21 November

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

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-21-broadcast

Wednesday 22 November

• 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Lídia

Friday 24 November

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

WEEK 11

Monday 27 November

• 10:00 - 11:00: start of the day with Michael and Manetta
• 11:00 - 13:00: XPUB2 rehearsal assessments - you are invited to join as a examiner the "rehearsal" assessments of XPUB2. you will get insight of their current research and can give feedback,...
• 14:00 - 17:00: group work time
• 18:00 - ... plotter party - XPUB Gathering organised by Blob Shop Collective (XPUB3)

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-27

Tuesday 28 November

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

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-28

Wednesday 29 November

• 11:00 - 17:00: The first Post-Apocalypse (ongoing apocalypse) Methods class with Steve

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-29

Friday 1 December

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

WEEK 12

Monday 4 December

Special Issue with Michael

• 10:00 - 13:00:
• 14:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 5 December

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

Wednesday 6 December

• 11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Lídia

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-12-6

Thursday 7 December

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

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm!

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See also

• Signal Lost: Archive Unzipped