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== Abstract ==
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* Creating instruments,
The project described here is a second iteration of a course first run last year, [[Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive]]. This iteration called '''Protocols for Collective Creation''', and will run from September to December 2024. The format will be a '''weekly live 2 hour radio program''', and '''a single in-person event, or “public moment”''' tentatively planned for November 20, 2024. The course will be developed and run by tutors of XPUB, supported by WORM staff, and will be followed and activated XPUB1 students. The idea is to produce and maintain a podcast feed of materials related to the program during the duration of the 3 months. The format of the live event is described further below. XPUB will be responsible for documenting activities related to the course, and in working with WORM for possible inclusion within their network (for instance working with Ash on materials that could be part of WORM’s Mixcloud channel).
* to remix materials from WORM's archive and Radio WORM,
* and perform them (live) together using performance protocols.


alternative titles (still working...)
== Intro ==
* Protocols for Performance
* Protocols for Distributed Practice


== Outline ==
In sum the course will be about:


* Creating instruments,
* exploring different forms of collective practice,
* to make radio, including remixing materials from WORM's archive and Radio WORM,
* and perform them (live) together using performance protocols.


=== Partners ===
=== Partners ===
''Which NADD partners are involved and who will be responsible for developing the programme?''


'''XPUB''' is the 2 years Master program in Experimental Publishing at the Willem de Kooning Academy, part of the Hogeschool Rotterdam (http://xpub.nl). XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
'''XPUB''' is the 2 years Master program in Experimental Publishing at the Willem de Kooning Academy, part of the Hogeschool Rotterdam (http://xpub.nl). XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
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'''WORM Pirate Bay''' (http://thepiratebay.worm.org/) is a physical archive and working facility at WORM comprising DVDs, VHS tapes, zines, books, CDs, board games and other remnants from WORM’s production history. WPB is about unconventional knowledge sharing and artistic production that might not be valued by traditional understandings of high art.
'''WORM Pirate Bay''' (http://thepiratebay.worm.org/) is a physical archive and working facility at WORM comprising DVDs, VHS tapes, zines, books, CDs, board games and other remnants from WORM’s production history. WPB is about unconventional knowledge sharing and artistic production that might not be valued by traditional understandings of high art.


The project will involve the assistance and cooperation of: Ash Kilmartin, Lukas Simonis, Lieuwe Zelle (Radio WORM), Ari Ralph (Worm Pirate Bay), and Florian Cramer, Michael Murtaugh (WDKA/XPUB), and XPUB tutors.
The project will involve the assistance and cooperation of: Ash Kilmartin, Lukas Simonis, Lieuwe Zelle (Radio WORM), Ari Ralph (Worm Pirate Bay), and Florian Cramer, Michael Murtaugh (WDKA/XPUB), and XPUB prototyping + methods tutors.


=== Format(s) ===
=== Themes ===


The project described here is a second iteration of the course with a focus on ''Protocols for Collective Creation'', and will run from September to December 2024. The formats will again be a '''weekly live 2 hour radio program''', and '''a single in-person event, or “public moment”''' tentatively planned for late November 2024. The course will be developed and run by tutors of XPUB, supported by WORM staff, and will be followed and activated by the group of 16 incoming first year XPUB students. The idea is to produce and maintain a podcast feed of materials related to the program during the duration of the 3 months. The format of the live event is described further below in the Communication Plan. XPUB will be responsible for documenting activities related to the course, and in working with WORM for possible inclusion within their network (for instance working with Ash on materials that could be part of WORM’s Mixcloud channel).
In terms of thematics, the project aims to focus on the history of sound art, considering specific practices such as tape manipulation, digital desconstruction, with a particular focus on improvisation and collective production. Key reference works such as ''Nature Study Notes'' and the work of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra will be studied, in parallel with work on Free Licenses and Free Software as means for producing what [http://lipparosa.org/essays/problemsofnotation.pdf Simon Yuill has termed ''distributive practices'']. In addition, the lived experience of Radio WORM’s Ash Kilmartin and Lukas Simonis will serve as key guides and resources in the process.  


=== Design + Digital Culture Archives ===
Furthermore, critical questions related to '''(cultural) reappropriation''', such as those raised in Ari Ralph’s ''An Introduction to Decolonial Archival Practice'' zine will be important aspects of the course. For instance, how can audio transcription software be used for more than just producing a strict transcription of what’s been spoken? Are there formats of audio + text that can go beyond “capture” and “translation” of spoken to written forms, and which preserve and value oral culture rather than attempting to fix (in both the sense of repair or freeze) or replace it?
 
In terms of thematics, the project aims to focus on the history of sound art, considering specific practices such as tape manipulation, digital desconstruction, with a particular focus on improvisation and collective production. Key reference works such as ''Nature Study Notes'' and the work of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra will be studied, in parallel with work on Free Licenses and Free Software as means for producing what [http://lipparosa.org/essays/problemsofnotation.pdf Simon Yuill has termed ''distributive practices'']. In addition, the lived experience of Radio WORM’s Ash Kilmartin and Lukas Simonis will serve as key guides and resources in the process. Furthermore, critical questions related to reappropriation, such as those raised in Ari Ralph’s ''An Introduction to Decolonial Archival Practice'' zine will be important aspects of the course. For instance, how can audio transcription software be used for more than just producing a strict transcription of what’s been spoken? Are there formats of audio + text that can go beyond “capture” and “translation” of spoken to written forms, and which preserve and value oral culture rather than attempting to fix (in both the sense of repair or freeze) or replace it?


=== Multivocality ===
=== Multivocality ===
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The project starts from the diversity of Radio WORM’s maker community, speakers of a diversity of languages, cultural backgrounds, and ages reflecting the diversity of Rotterdam’s inhabitants. In addition, XPUB as a program embraces a diversity of practices, from traditional print design to game design and programming, but also including music, product Design, anthropology. The course will focus draw on historical examples of collective production to look at a diversity of ways that collectivity can be facilitated. As a course XPUB is also particularly interested in the interplay between the tools and platforms we use and their impact on the ways collaboration occurs, for instance how roles can be shared and (re)negotiated rather than only being fixed in conventional workflows with designers typically at the end of a process of “giving form”.
The project starts from the diversity of Radio WORM’s maker community, speakers of a diversity of languages, cultural backgrounds, and ages reflecting the diversity of Rotterdam’s inhabitants. In addition, XPUB as a program embraces a diversity of practices, from traditional print design to game design and programming, but also including music, product Design, anthropology. The course will focus draw on historical examples of collective production to look at a diversity of ways that collectivity can be facilitated. As a course XPUB is also particularly interested in the interplay between the tools and platforms we use and their impact on the ways collaboration occurs, for instance how roles can be shared and (re)negotiated rather than only being fixed in conventional workflows with designers typically at the end of a process of “giving form”.


For example, in the first iteration of the couse, a podcast was made of the radio programs, alongside a series of diverse zines, including interviews with radio makers. Besires this, a 3D model of the WORM Radio studio was made which them formed the basis of a collaboration to make audio/visual animation that mixed abstract metadata from the archival recordings with the rendered model.
For example, in the first iteration of the course, a podcast was made of the radio programs, alongside a series of diverse zines, including interviews with radio makers. Besides this, a 3D model of the WORM Radio studio was made which them formed the basis of a collaboration to make audio/visual animation that mixed abstract metadata from the archival recordings with the rendered model.
 
=== Radio program ===
 
==== Text about Radio Program for WORM's website ====
'''TO DO''' (due by end of Sep 20)
 
=== Support ===


== Communication Plan ==
The project has received funding from [https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/nadd NADD] to support Radio WORM staff and in the production of the public event.


''Please explain which audience you are hoping to reach and how you aim to do so.''
=== Public moment ===


The idea is for the public moment/event will be to explicitly address past, present, and future members of the Radio WORM community of listeners and makers. The format of the event would be relatively open, with a variety of activities happening in parallel. Workshops will showcase the richness and variety of materials available via WORM Pirate Bay, and the potential for new collective artistic production using specific techniques explored in the course (for instance involving physical cut-up techniques with reel to reel audio, or digital techniques with automatic transcription and coding). Furthermore, the plan will be to include access to WORM Sound Studio, whose unique situation for collective sound production will be featured. The idea is for the event to be used as a means of gathering further materials from an interested public, and for these materials to be incorporated into the subsequent/final radio broadcasts, creating some space for reflection and closure.
The idea is for the public moment/event will be to explicitly address past, present, and future members of the Radio WORM community of listeners and makers. The format of the event would be relatively open, with a variety of activities happening in parallel. Workshops will showcase the richness and variety of materials available via WORM Pirate Bay, and the potential for new collective artistic production using specific techniques explored in the course (for instance involving physical cut-up techniques with reel to reel audio, or digital techniques with automatic transcription and coding). Furthermore, the plan will be to include access to WORM Sound Studio, whose unique situation for collective sound production will be featured. The idea is for the event to be used as a means of gathering further materials from an interested public, and for these materials to be incorporated into the subsequent/final radio broadcasts, creating some space for reflection and closure.
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The project aims to primarily address Radio WORM’s community of makers and listeners, past, present, and future. More broadly, the project should address and be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in collective artistic practices and those interested in the interplay between digital tools and networked platforms for distributing and archiving the resulting cultural productions.
The project aims to primarily address Radio WORM’s community of makers and listeners, past, present, and future. More broadly, the project should address and be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in collective artistic practices and those interested in the interplay between digital tools and networked platforms for distributing and archiving the resulting cultural productions.


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==== Text about Nov Event for WORM Website ====
'''TODO''' (preliminary text due by end of 20 Sep)
 
== Schedule ==
''Each Monday from 10-12 a live radio program is produced by a rotating team of XPUB students together from the Radio WORM Studio.''
''The proposal is to use one hour to listen together to one or more sources (historical projects, interviews, etc). The second hour is then for live performance using instruments developed during the course.''


=== Instrument building ===
===WEEK -1===


*
===WEEK 0===
==== Monday 16 September ====
10 - 13: Meet at WORM


=== NOTES ===
14-17: Afternoon session (in the Aquarium)
 
* [[Radio WORM: Protocols for Collective Performance - An introduction]]
 
Followup to [http://lipparosa.org/essays/problemsofnotation.pdf All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill] that you read and annotated with Lidia last Wednesday
 
Check out [[:Category:Protocol]]
<div style="border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; font-weight: bold; background: #ff9999; box-shadow: 4px 4px 0px black;">
 
Assignment: [[Making a collective field recording audio collage]]
 
Assignment: Create the start page for the special issue (HTML).
 
Assignment: Adapt your wiki-based audio collage to an HTML page.
</div>
 
==== Tuesday 17 September ====
 
Prototyping introduction, with Manetta & Joseph: setting up your sandbox
 
Notebook/wiki pages: [[Sandbox]] & [[HTML + CSS]]
 
<div style="border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; font-weight: bold; background: #ff9999; box-shadow: 4px 4px 0px black;">
Assignment: Find an object, device, situation ... that creates an interesting sound! Please bring it next Tuesday (24th September).
</div>
 
==== Wednesday 18 September ====
 
11:00-17:00
 
Methods with Steve
 
Outcome: a series of notation protocols
 
Today we will look more deeply into some of the references Simon Yuill makes in The Problems on Notation, with particular attention being paid to Nature Study Notes... together we will produce a directory of improvisational protocols and perform some of the protocols devised.
 
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
 
Addition to small library: Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)
 
https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf
 
===WEEK 1===
==== Roles ====
*'''Fred''' (Producer) / '''Kim''' (Interface)
*Sevgi (host)
*Martina (host)
*Kiara (host)
 
==== Monday 23 September ====
* 10:00 - 12:00: '''Radio Broadcast #01''' Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio, the others at school to listen
* 12:15 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
* 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
* 14:00 - 17:00: Afternoon session
 
==== Tuesday 24 September ====
 
Prototyping, with Joseph: Instrumentation & Improvisation
 
==== Wednesday 25 September ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
===WEEK 2===
==== Roles ====
*'''Kim'''/'''Chrissy'''
*Melisa
*Eleni
*Imina
 
==== Monday 30 September ====
 
==== Tuesday 1 October ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta
 
==== Wednesday 2 October ====
 
Methods with Steve
 
===WEEK 3===
==== Roles ====
*'''Chrissy'''/'''Wyn'''
*Imre
*Claudio
*Martina
==== Monday 7 October ====
 
==== Tuesday 8 October ====
 
Prototyping, with Joseph: Jamming
 
==== Wednesday 9 October ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
===WEEK 4===
==== Roles ====
*'''Wyn'''/'''Claudio'''
*Sevgi
*Kim
*Feline
 
==== Monday 14 October ====
 
==== Tuesday 15 October ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta
 
==== Wednesday 16 October ====
 
Methods with Steve
 
===WEEK 5===
==== Roles ====
*'''Claudio'''/'''Charlie'''
*Wyn
*Melisa
*Fred
==== Monday 21 October ====
 
==== Tuesday 22 October ====
 
Prototyping, with Joseph: Modularity
 
==== Wednesday 23 October ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
===<span style="color: gray">WEEK 6</span>===
==== <span style="color: gray">FALL BREAK</span> ====
 
===WEEK 7===
==== Roles ====
*'''Charlie'''/'''Tessa'''
*Chrissy
*imina
*Kiara
==== Monday 4 November ====
 
==== Tuesday 5 November ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta
 
==== Wednesday 6 November ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
===WEEK 8===
==== Roles ====
*'''Tessa'''/'''Feline'''
*Zuhui
*Charlie
*Imre
==== Monday 11 November ====
 
==== Tuesday 12 November ====
 
Prototyping, with Joseph
 
===WEEK 9===
 
==== Roles ====
*'''Feline'''/'''Alexandria'''
*Eleni
*Chrissy
*Kiara
 
==== Monday 18 November ====
 
==== Tuesday 19 November ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta
 
==== Wednesday 20 November ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
Public event at WORM for Collective Creation / Performance (TBC)
 
===WEEK 10===
==== Roles ====
*'''Alexandria'''/'''Zuhui'''
*Melisa
*Wyn
*Kim
==== Monday 25 November ====
 
==== Tuesday 26 November ====
 
Prototyping, with Joseph
 
===WEEK 11===
==== Roles ====
*'''Zuhui'''/'''Fred'''
*Alexandria
*Tessa
*sevgi
==== Monday 2 December ====
 
==== Tuesday 3 December ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta
 
==== Wednesday 4 December ====
 
Methods with Lídia
 
===WEEK 12===
 
'''Final Broadcast Week''' : Roles and Protocols to be determined...
 
==== Monday 9 December ====
 
==== Tuesday 10 December ====
 
Prototyping, with Manetta (& Joseph)
 
== References (in progress of being integrated into page) ==
 
From last year the [[:Category:Protocol|Protocol Category]], with specific Decision Making protocols such as [[All voices heard]] and [[Voting by show of hands]]
 
Specific attention to Licenses, [[Open licenses]], and [[Open licenses session]] that was the basis of a zine.
 
Nature Study Notes, and Portland Pattern Repository ... parallels.


Exemplary webpages that document the history of a project while also creating a web-page based (re)performance tool:
Exemplary webpages that document the history of a project while also creating a web-page based (re)performance tool:
* [https://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/wobbulator/ BBC Radiophonic workshop + Delia Derbyshire]
* [https://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/wobbulator/ BBC Radiophonic workshop + Delia Derbyshire]
* [https://mod.haxor.fi MOD/S3M/XM Module Player for Web Audio] and [https://github.com/electronoora/webaudio-mod-player code] [https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js chiptune2.js]
* [https://mod.haxor.fi MOD/S3M/XM Module Player for Web Audio] and [https://github.com/electronoora/webaudio-mod-player code] [https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js chiptune2.js]
* [https://www.some-assembly-required.net/episodes/ Some Assembly Required]
* [https://www.some-assembly-required.net/episodes/ Some Assembly Required]
* [https://archive.org/details/diemaschine-georgesperec1968 Die Maschine], Radio play (1968) George Perec Radio Aporee * * Janek Schaefer: Custom players, his [https://www.audioh.com/information/soundartresource.html soundartresources]
* Radio Aporee
* Janek Schaefer: Custom players, his [https://www.audioh.com/information/soundartresource.html soundartresources]
* Generative Music (players) Throbbing Gristle / Buddha Machine? Pirate Radio History [Media Fragments]* (https://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/ ''The Deep'', Rivers Solomon + Clipping (Hybrid Pub)
* Generative Music (players) Throbbing Gristle / Buddha Machine? Pirate Radio History [Media Fragments]* (https://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/ ''The Deep'', Rivers Solomon + Clipping (Hybrid Pub)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(novella)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(novella)
* Platoniq Burnstation
* Platoniq Burnstation
* [https://www.pgdp.net/c/ Distributed Proofreaders] and the [https://sound.constantvzw.org/Algolit/Data_workers_podcast_EN/.index/IV_-_01._Project_Gutenberg_and_Distributed_Proofreaders.mp3/play.mp3 podcast recording] -- interview with An?
* [https://video.constantvzw.org/PublicDomainDay2015/.index/NEWNOVA.webm/play.mp4 Botopera]


=== Licenses ===
=== Licenses ===
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“Raw” audio
“Raw” audio


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=== Strange Text to Speech ===
=== Strange Text to Speech ===


<pre>play -tlpc /dev/urandom</pre>
<pre>play -tlpc /dev/urandom</pre>
Leads to deep dive into LPC format as a “vocoder”…


[https://griffin.moe/voder/ Voder] [https://www.hellocatfood.com/spell-and-speak/ Spell and Speak, Antonio Roberts] using Silas S. Brown’s lexconvert
Leads to deep dive into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding LPC format] as a “vocoder".


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The [https://griffin.moe/voder/ Voder] page is an exemplary page with documentation of the historic Voder algorithm, but also including a live simulation / instrument with instructions on how to "play" a sample phrase (She sees me).
 
[https://www.hellocatfood.com/spell-and-speak/ Spell and Speak, Antonio Roberts] is a great example of using different distributive practices (free software such as using Silas S. Brown’s *lexconvert*, and small shell commands and hacks) to explore the international phonetics alphabet by generating random permutations and an animating them.


=== Speech synth ===  
=== Speech synth ===  
* https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
* https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_YUB_S6Gpo
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_YUB_S6Gpo Kempelen's speaking machine]
* https://xpub.nl/2024/call/call-ig.html
* [https://xpub.nl/2024/call/call-ig.html XPUB Call with Speech to Text API]


=== Readings ===
== Listenings ==


* [http://lipparosa.org/essays/problemsofnotation.pdf All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill]
The idea is to have a dedicated space in the weekly radio program for group listening to historic radio shows / other audio pieces.
* A selection from [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/833/pdf Unmarked, The Politics of Performance, Peggy Phelan]
 
* [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/813/pdf?page=28 R.A.D.I.O. The Media Ecology of Pirate Radio], Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies, 2005
* Laurence Rassel Show http://www.ultrared.org/publicrecord/archive/2-01/2-01-014/2-01-014.html
* [https://archive.org/details/diemaschine-georgesperec1968 Die Maschine], Radio play (1968) George Perec
* [https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~murtaugh/video/Sound%20Out%20-%2020th%20February%202015%20%5BResonance_sound-out-20th-february-2015%5D.m4a Resonance: Sound Out 20 Feb 2015] recording of a radio program from Scratch Orchestra members meeting in 2015 in preparation for performance
* [http://traffic.libsyn.com/postconsumer01/SAR62.mp3 SAR62: Interview with Janek Schaefer] [http://www.blog.some-assembly-required.net/2008/02/episode-62-some-assembly-required.html about]
* [https://content.libsyn.com/p/5/5/a/55a360a58a529723/SAR03.mp3 SAR03]: Interview with Illegal Art [http://www.blog.some-assembly-required.net/2009/02/episode-03-some-assembly-required.html about]
* [http://www.blog.some-assembly-required.net/2009/08/episode-43-some-assembly-required.html SAR43]: Interview with People Like Us
* [https://www.some-assembly-required.net/blog/2008/04/episode-16-some-assembly-required.html SAR16]: Interview with John Oswald / Plunderphonics
* https://corecursive.com/tdih-cpan/
* Kate Rich + Natalie Jeremijenko: Mute Wipeout
* Tarek Atoui https://www.kurimanzutto.com/en/artists/tarek-atoui
* DONNA：\ Women\ in\ Revolt\ \[118671-000-A\].mp4
 
== Readings (in progress) ==
* Simon Yuill, [http://lipparosa.org/essays/problemsofnotation.pdf ''All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice'']
* Melanie Sehgal, [https://calibre.constantvzw.org/read/40/pdf ''Looking back and not behind. On the concept of Performativity'']
* Fanny Chiarello - ''Field Recordings'' in ''Basta Now: women, trans & non-binary in experimental music''
* Selections from [https://almanac.state-of-the-arts.net/ (Fair) Kin Arts Almanac] ... and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUrLoBzHuAk&list=PLe-w9p--aJKtN0WC2f7dhsZ4C5Ger7mzt&index=6 Gijs presents at LGM 2024] and [https://state-of-the-arts.net/about-us/sota/ SOTA]
y of Pirate Radio], Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies, 2005
* Pirate Radio History in Amy Spencer’s DIY
* Pirate Radio History in Amy Spencer’s DIY
* [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/897/pdf Nature Study Notes: Scratch Orchestra]
* [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/831/pdf Improvisation Rites: From John Cage's Song Books to The Scratch] Stefan Szczelkun
* The Future was already here, c. 7: The Scene
* The Future was already here, c. 7: The Scene
* &lt;?&gt; The sound of your prose, Ursula Le Guin, (Space Crone)
* &lt;?&gt; The sound of your prose, Ursula Le Guin, (Space Crone)
* &lt;?&gt; Daniel Punday, Computing as Writing, c. ? … or is this SI26? Maybe the chapter that investigates iTunes…
* &lt;?&gt; Daniel Punday, Computing as Writing, c. ? … or is this SI26? Maybe the chapter that investigates iTunes…


== Schedule ==
=== 16 Sep 24 ===
Meet at WORM
==== Tuesday 17 September ====
Prototyping introduction
=== 23-Sep-24 ===
=== 30-Sep-24 ===
=== 7-Oct-24 ===
=== 14-Oct-24 ===
=== 21-Oct-24 ===
=== 28-Oct-24 ===
Fall BREAK


=== 4-Nov-24 ===
[[Category:Special Issue]]
=== 11-Nov-24 ===
=== 18-Nov-24 ===
=== 25-Nov-24 ===
=== 2-Dec-24 ===
=== 9-Dec-24 ===

Latest revision as of 17:30, 17 September 2024

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The project described here is a second iteration of a course first run last year, Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive. This iteration called Protocols for Collective Creation, and will run from September to December 2024. The format will be a weekly live 2 hour radio program, and a single in-person event, or “public moment” tentatively planned for November 20, 2024. The course will be developed and run by tutors of XPUB, supported by WORM staff, and will be followed and activated XPUB1 students. The idea is to produce and maintain a podcast feed of materials related to the program during the duration of the 3 months. The format of the live event is described further below. XPUB will be responsible for documenting activities related to the course, and in working with WORM for possible inclusion within their network (for instance working with Ash on materials that could be part of WORM’s Mixcloud channel).

Intro

In sum the course will be about:

  • Creating instruments,
  • exploring different forms of collective practice,
  • to make radio, including remixing materials from WORM's archive and Radio WORM,
  • and perform them (live) together using performance protocols.

Partners

XPUB is the 2 years Master program in Experimental Publishing at the Willem de Kooning Academy, part of the Hogeschool Rotterdam (http://xpub.nl). XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.

Radio WORM (https://radio.worm.org) is an online radio platform at the heart of WORM Rotterdam. Their studio hosts audio production of all descriptions (sound art, experimental music, interviews, mixes, informal reporting and in-depth talk-based series), with over 80 resident shows as well as a shifting schedule of one-off events, mini-series and special guests.

WORM Pirate Bay (http://thepiratebay.worm.org/) is a physical archive and working facility at WORM comprising DVDs, VHS tapes, zines, books, CDs, board games and other remnants from WORM’s production history. WPB is about unconventional knowledge sharing and artistic production that might not be valued by traditional understandings of high art.

The project will involve the assistance and cooperation of: Ash Kilmartin, Lukas Simonis, Lieuwe Zelle (Radio WORM), Ari Ralph (Worm Pirate Bay), and Florian Cramer, Michael Murtaugh (WDKA/XPUB), and XPUB prototyping + methods tutors.

Themes

In terms of thematics, the project aims to focus on the history of sound art, considering specific practices such as tape manipulation, digital desconstruction, with a particular focus on improvisation and collective production. Key reference works such as Nature Study Notes and the work of Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra will be studied, in parallel with work on Free Licenses and Free Software as means for producing what Simon Yuill has termed distributive practices. In addition, the lived experience of Radio WORM’s Ash Kilmartin and Lukas Simonis will serve as key guides and resources in the process.

Furthermore, critical questions related to (cultural) reappropriation, such as those raised in Ari Ralph’s An Introduction to Decolonial Archival Practice zine will be important aspects of the course. For instance, how can audio transcription software be used for more than just producing a strict transcription of what’s been spoken? Are there formats of audio + text that can go beyond “capture” and “translation” of spoken to written forms, and which preserve and value oral culture rather than attempting to fix (in both the sense of repair or freeze) or replace it?

Multivocality

The project starts from the diversity of Radio WORM’s maker community, speakers of a diversity of languages, cultural backgrounds, and ages reflecting the diversity of Rotterdam’s inhabitants. In addition, XPUB as a program embraces a diversity of practices, from traditional print design to game design and programming, but also including music, product Design, anthropology. The course will focus draw on historical examples of collective production to look at a diversity of ways that collectivity can be facilitated. As a course XPUB is also particularly interested in the interplay between the tools and platforms we use and their impact on the ways collaboration occurs, for instance how roles can be shared and (re)negotiated rather than only being fixed in conventional workflows with designers typically at the end of a process of “giving form”.

For example, in the first iteration of the course, a podcast was made of the radio programs, alongside a series of diverse zines, including interviews with radio makers. Besides this, a 3D model of the WORM Radio studio was made which them formed the basis of a collaboration to make audio/visual animation that mixed abstract metadata from the archival recordings with the rendered model.

Radio program

Text about Radio Program for WORM's website

TO DO (due by end of Sep 20)

Support

The project has received funding from NADD to support Radio WORM staff and in the production of the public event.

Public moment

The idea is for the public moment/event will be to explicitly address past, present, and future members of the Radio WORM community of listeners and makers. The format of the event would be relatively open, with a variety of activities happening in parallel. Workshops will showcase the richness and variety of materials available via WORM Pirate Bay, and the potential for new collective artistic production using specific techniques explored in the course (for instance involving physical cut-up techniques with reel to reel audio, or digital techniques with automatic transcription and coding). Furthermore, the plan will be to include access to WORM Sound Studio, whose unique situation for collective sound production will be featured. The idea is for the event to be used as a means of gathering further materials from an interested public, and for these materials to be incorporated into the subsequent/final radio broadcasts, creating some space for reflection and closure.

The project aims to primarily address Radio WORM’s community of makers and listeners, past, present, and future. More broadly, the project should address and be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in collective artistic practices and those interested in the interplay between digital tools and networked platforms for distributing and archiving the resulting cultural productions.

Text about Nov Event for WORM Website

TODO (preliminary text due by end of 20 Sep)

Schedule

Each Monday from 10-12 a live radio program is produced by a rotating team of XPUB students together from the Radio WORM Studio. The proposal is to use one hour to listen together to one or more sources (historical projects, interviews, etc). The second hour is then for live performance using instruments developed during the course.

WEEK -1

WEEK 0

Monday 16 September

10 - 13: Meet at WORM

14-17: Afternoon session (in the Aquarium)

Followup to All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill that you read and annotated with Lidia last Wednesday

Check out Category:Protocol

Assignment: Making a collective field recording audio collage

Assignment: Create the start page for the special issue (HTML).

Assignment: Adapt your wiki-based audio collage to an HTML page.

Tuesday 17 September

Prototyping introduction, with Manetta & Joseph: setting up your sandbox

Notebook/wiki pages: Sandbox & HTML + CSS

Assignment: Find an object, device, situation ... that creates an interesting sound! Please bring it next Tuesday (24th September).

Wednesday 18 September

11:00-17:00

Methods with Steve

Outcome: a series of notation protocols

Today we will look more deeply into some of the references Simon Yuill makes in The Problems on Notation, with particular attention being paid to Nature Study Notes... together we will produce a directory of improvisational protocols and perform some of the protocols devised.

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

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

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

WEEK 1

Roles

  • Fred (Producer) / Kim (Interface)
  • Sevgi (host)
  • Martina (host)
  • Kiara (host)

Monday 23 September

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Broadcast #01 Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio, the others at school to listen
  • 12:15 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
  • 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
  • 14:00 - 17:00: Afternoon session

Tuesday 24 September

Prototyping, with Joseph: Instrumentation & Improvisation

Wednesday 25 September

Methods with Lídia

WEEK 2

Roles

  • Kim/Chrissy
  • Melisa
  • Eleni
  • Imina

Monday 30 September

Tuesday 1 October

Prototyping, with Manetta

Wednesday 2 October

Methods with Steve

WEEK 3

Roles

  • Chrissy/Wyn
  • Imre
  • Claudio
  • Martina

Monday 7 October

Tuesday 8 October

Prototyping, with Joseph: Jamming

Wednesday 9 October

Methods with Lídia

WEEK 4

Roles

  • Wyn/Claudio
  • Sevgi
  • Kim
  • Feline

Monday 14 October

Tuesday 15 October

Prototyping, with Manetta

Wednesday 16 October

Methods with Steve

WEEK 5

Roles

  • Claudio/Charlie
  • Wyn
  • Melisa
  • Fred

Monday 21 October

Tuesday 22 October

Prototyping, with Joseph: Modularity

Wednesday 23 October

Methods with Lídia

WEEK 6

FALL BREAK

WEEK 7

Roles

  • Charlie/Tessa
  • Chrissy
  • imina
  • Kiara

Monday 4 November

Tuesday 5 November

Prototyping, with Manetta

Wednesday 6 November

Methods with Lídia

WEEK 8

Roles

  • Tessa/Feline
  • Zuhui
  • Charlie
  • Imre

Monday 11 November

Tuesday 12 November

Prototyping, with Joseph

WEEK 9

Roles

  • Feline/Alexandria
  • Eleni
  • Chrissy
  • Kiara

Monday 18 November

Tuesday 19 November

Prototyping, with Manetta

Wednesday 20 November

Methods with Lídia

Public event at WORM for Collective Creation / Performance (TBC)

WEEK 10

Roles

  • Alexandria/Zuhui
  • Melisa
  • Wyn
  • Kim

Monday 25 November

Tuesday 26 November

Prototyping, with Joseph

WEEK 11

Roles

  • Zuhui/Fred
  • Alexandria
  • Tessa
  • sevgi

Monday 2 December

Tuesday 3 December

Prototyping, with Manetta

Wednesday 4 December

Methods with Lídia

WEEK 12

Final Broadcast Week : Roles and Protocols to be determined...

Monday 9 December

Tuesday 10 December

Prototyping, with Manetta (& Joseph)

References (in progress of being integrated into page)

From last year the Protocol Category, with specific Decision Making protocols such as All voices heard and Voting by show of hands

Specific attention to Licenses, Open licenses, and Open licenses session that was the basis of a zine.

Nature Study Notes, and Portland Pattern Repository ... parallels.

Exemplary webpages that document the history of a project while also creating a web-page based (re)performance tool:

Licenses

Laurence Rassel Show http://www.ultrared.org/publicrecord/archive/2-01/2-01-014/2-01-014.html

Meditations

Sox

“Raw” audio

Strange Text to Speech

play -tlpc /dev/urandom

Leads to deep dive into LPC format as a “vocoder".

The Voder page is an exemplary page with documentation of the historic Voder algorithm, but also including a live simulation / instrument with instructions on how to "play" a sample phrase (She sees me).

Spell and Speak, Antonio Roberts is a great example of using different distributive practices (free software such as using Silas S. Brown’s *lexconvert*, and small shell commands and hacks) to explore the international phonetics alphabet by generating random permutations and an animating them.

Speech synth

Listenings

The idea is to have a dedicated space in the weekly radio program for group listening to historic radio shows / other audio pieces.

Readings (in progress)

y of Pirate Radio], Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies, 2005

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