User:Angeliki/Research writing

"it is difficult to imagine how someone researching the equipment and technical skills necessary to produce her own broadcasts would fail to come across the information that what she is trying to do is probably illegal" John Anderson, presentation at Southern Illinois University, February 25, 2008.

Project proposal

older drafts
NEXT: make small proposals/paragraphs for every topic

Topics:
gossiping (social and political context, gender and power structures)
speech recognition (control, tools of power)
radio/antennas (FM, AM, satellites)

Project title:
The presence of voice or other related sounds in diverse spheres (physical, airwaves, online)
I want to scan through platforms of speech and collect audio and text material related to speech/voice. Examples of platforms and spaces could be radio (all possible frequencies), youtube videos and other, outside space, blogs, social media, gossiping in public, in NL and GR. The collection will be audio samples and text being produced by the speech recognition of the audio. After that I will collocate them together on a way that produces new meanings and interpretations over the vocal presence of a body (either institutional or individual). This process will be visible/public and will happen in a live action (here and now) in which I will invite people to interact with, either by listening or scanning or participating in an instance/stimulation of a speech platform/sphere or an instance of oral/vocal communication sphere. More specifically I would like to involve people in the process and the sphere (listening and scanning) that will be created. This sphere that people will participate could be a collective reading/conversation online, in radio and physical space. The purpose is the voice to be amplified in such a way that raises questions over the presence in public spaces (virtual,digital,online or physical)./Introducing feedback voice technologies as a process of thickening the space.

How I want to make it:
Collection of material: Listening/ Walking/ Scanning

-I want to make a radio/sound scanner carrying it with me as I walk in the city and transcribe everything I listen to (gossiping etc./like small antenna of Christina Kubisch listening to mobile phones of passengers/radio signals/noise). As a small sculpture of the moment of conversations in public spaces.

-Making antennas and listening to what is broadcasted in different frequencies. Directing the antenna with my body with the purpose to find the source.

-Developing scan tools and trying them out.

Experimenting with software and concepts
During my process I will realize small interventions and experiments that will support my project. Ideas for that:

-Fake voices like trump voice

-Ask to broadcast in an FM frequency where people can get connected and broadcast instructions that other people will follow somewhere else (O' Rourke pg. 125). In the same frequency people would be invited to speak or send recorded audio resembling phonemes. In the same frequency also the collected sounds could be broadcast.

-The text circulated in the digital sphere (social media, news etc) read/broadcasted (espeak?people participated to create phonemes?) live to participants while walking in the city. Choosing spots that have an importance (historical, political, surveillance spots etc) in relevance to my documentation and research.

-In reverse: sounds/voices/speeches of the electromagnetic-online realm being transcribed to a text that is shared to the public.(ex: Here While We Walk)/ the text becomes part of the walking

-Points of local networks, temporary spaces/platforms traced on the map, activating conversations, reading rooms?.

-Taking my research text into the archival material (texts, transcriptions, voices, speeches) and manipulate it with the tools that I will create

-Lines and antennas: to set up an antenna requires material, sometimes from the location. Physical location of antennas, range, traces, routes of people in attempt to direct an antenna

-Scanning my physical surroundings, speech recognition to everything. The representation of the street through is radioactive fields

-What about a platform for people to add voices, antennas, coordinates/ like a map (django?)

Documenting/ Presenting/ Publishing/ Participating (the action of travelling/transition)
What forms of presentation are appropriate for this practice? I want to build a way for that. My project proposes a range of possibilities and parallel processes (live action, happening at the same time or with delay).

The steps I want to follow till December:

-Writing abstracts, synopsis, essays

-Editing project proposal,thesis outline, chapters

-Hackpact and collecting material from my experiments

-Attend workshops and lectures on radio and speech recognition (CCC, FOSSDEM, Bourges)

-Conduct more interviews and transcribe them (Julie, RootIO)

-prototyping scan frequencies

-prototyping with radio/antennas and webcast/broadcast and embroidered antennas (I can walk with them)

-documenting events, public spaces (where the electromagnetic, online sphere and speeches appear, surveillance spots, How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication)

-searching archives like city archive, Kootwijk history, radio communities

-search for technologies that are already made for surveillance and are related to speech recognition in the city

-interview people related to pirate radio (Reni Hofmüller)

-find references that are not so academic

-prototyping with mapping and lines (scripts of walking/coordinates to lines)

-prototyping with speech recognition

-Set-up a platform to document prototyping, writing, experiments in public. People can contribute to that. Comminication friction. leave a trace. Establish temporary platforms

-Collect bibliography

-Setting up questions

-Reading- Making abstracts

The reason I am doing that:
What is the reasonable follow-up action to my reason?
Generally, I want to dive into the in between space of media and physical landscapes. Regarding the expanses of public spheres in diverse spaces interesting networks are created that can stay active by circulating the knowledge produced by the people being involved. Knowledge is circulated also through the speech and the voice of people in internet, electromagnetic spheres, communication platforms in general and physical spaces. The small conversations/murmurings/gossiping spread around those communication platforms are making a public space, that differs from the public access in spaces as Saskia Sassen mentions and the big political, religion, institutional speeches dominating the public spaces. Seeing the documentation of these voices/sounds/speeches as an archive of collective memory, this material could be placed together on a way that proposes alternative of perceiving ourselves individually and collectively into those landscapes. It can also propose other ways of "publicness". As Ong observed in Orality and Literacy, the condition for a democratic social dialogue in oral cultures was the presence of people in the space and their oral speech and thus after many discussions and performative behaviours they would reach to a decision together or they would just share their individual identities and stories. At the same time peoples voices are used for the creation of phonemes that would help the "machine" to understand, recognize and imitate human voices, conversations. How political decisions affect those spheres?
My initial motivation to do this project is (gender,educational,cultural) exclusion, that I have felt, in communication platforms like radio because of the exclusion in the technical knowledge of them. Another reason is my experience in a previous project I had regarding what voice/speech triggers in public spaces and the power of the invisible soundscapes to create borders and social spheres. My purpose is to redefine those mediums (like radio) by appropriate them in a way that follows up the "situation"/position (cultural, political) of a person. But also to subvert the use of speech recognition software and radio as a tool for control and war, misuse the errors of the tool for the purpose of using the voice as a medium for presence. There is also a public sphere (inactive in terms of political and social aspects) called radio amateurs. How the voice can circulate through it? It is a gendered space. With the purpose to learn for it and approach it (revealing legal,gender,cultural obstacles) I would like to write down all their words (able only for technical conversations and weather) and put them together with other material.
The voice is carrying the culture, gender and other elements of a person and can represent her/him in another space than the actual location of that person. I am interested in the voice as presence in the public space through the absence of the body and for its power to be an initiator for public assemblies, where people interact and exchange through speech acts.

Who could help me:
Matt, Yoanna and Roel help me a lot with the construction of antennas and software for radio. Reni Hofmüller, who I interviewed, can help me in the future when the project gets more concrete as she has a great knowledge on radio (antennas, community radio, pirate radio). Yoanna can also help in the the general direction of the project as her graduation project was related to voice and public space

Previously:
I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software. My way of working looks like an alien creature but weirdly make sense; I combine different unrelated (technically and conceptually) software with the purpose to follow the concept behind.

Larger context:
locative media, urban tactical media, hacktivism, radio amateurs, text as a social space, architecture and media, radio public sphere, tracking, speech recognition, speech More specific:

radio art, electromagnetic public sphere, platforms of communication and how to contest them, broadcasting and webcasting

mapping tools, walking practices

voice as a tool, speech recognition, transcriptions, voice in communication platforms

in relation to the above: interventions of text

Other keywords:
thickening, parallel, embodied, transition, spatial, occupy movements, vernacular, misreading, tracing, platforms, phonemes, phonetics,temporality, local networks, databases and GPS/sql

Thesis

Thesis outline

I would like to keep writing abstracts, short essays. Writing texts to be merged with writing scripts and scores, until the point where the format of the text is deconstructed and proposes other ways of reading and writing the thesis. I would like to approach the text as a social space open to the public, like what we did the last trimester with reading a text in the tunnel, while walking.

Example of "blurry" writing:

"No_vowels poem"

#Takes out the vowels of a text
import sys
from sys import stdin

l=list('aeiou')
# original = input('give me the poem ')
original = stdin.read()

if len(original) > 0:
    word= original.lower()
    s=list(word)
    new_word=[]
    for i in s:
    	# or if i not in l
        if not i in l: 
           new_word.append(i)
    print (''.join(new_word))
else:
    print ('empty')

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From "Knots", R.D.Laing

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Some formats: interviews

Questions

• How is the media sphere related to public spaces? How they do construct the space?
• How the voice occupy public space (either physical or digital or...)? Relation to speech acts.
• What that reveals for the space (either physical or digital) and our surroundings?
• How the commons are related to that and how can be influenced by that?
• How the tools provide another perspective and way of research or communicating?
• How walking and including the presence of our body into this media occupied public space reveals hidden meanings and perspectives?
• How the art and architecture opens up to these possibilities that this technical knowledge of programming, media provides? How can this still be conceptual, poetic? How can this include the "I" and the "we"? How and why to make things public?
• Is it object, is it an endless process, is it an action?

Steve's questions:

• What material from the 'text on method' you wrote last trimester could be useful for the proposal? ...Abstracts, descriptions of projects in process, collective writing...
• What possibilities are open to you? ...tools, places/networks I would interact with, workshops of writing...

(make a list of whys, questions, silly or not, eternal, going closer to the core)

Mood Being practical/mechanical/physical and at the same time conceptual/intuitive

-----the core and the surroundings-----

Being an insect having or creating antennas. Being in place and being absent. Being expert to my tools and mechanisms. The non-art Hack the media surrounding us, use them as artistic tools (antennas, locative/in-situ? installation in between spaces, digital, physical, cultural) layers of sharing

Interviews

Reni Hofmüller

-What is your relation with antennas and radio? why are you interested in them?
-How did you gain this knowledge?
-Did your gender affected your involvement to radio technologies and culture and your first choice?
-Did you see radio as a different tool than what is perceived to be?
-How did you set-up radio stations? legal or illegal?
-How the speech and voice was part of your pirate radio attempts?
-Describe me your how it was to do such projects in public space. -What references would you propose?

Julie Boschat Thorez

- What were the main difficulties of documenting a work like the UBERMORGEN's work?
- What forms of presentation did you use?
- How did you mix them in one publication? Or maybe it was a multiple publication existing in different forms and places?

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Projects

"De bron (Sjanet Bijker, 2006)". This project was conceived by Groningen artist Sjanet Bijker in 2006. People could send messages through the internet that were made audible by text-to-voice converting software. Also the water was rippled due to the sound that was heard. The well was placed in several public places around the town of Groningen.
It is very related to my project proposal as it related to the transfer of the digital text/messages to the public space through the voice.

Leave a message (Yoanna Buzova, 2014) is a participatory project, a network of voice mailboxes, that allow members of the public to record and distribute audio messages in public space.

Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources.

EMF Sensing and Fractal Antennas The wearable detectors that are produced at the workshop can be used in a number of ways - as an open-source tool to explore the city’s invisible landscape, as an audiovisual performance interface or as a way to collect EMF data that can afterwards be used for further analysis and experiments (e.g. vizualisation or signification).

Her Long Black Hair (Janet Cardiff, 2004) Her Long Black Hair takes each listener on a winding, mysterious journey through Central Park’s 19th-century pathways, retracing the footsteps of an enigmatic dark-haired woman.

Pak Sheung Chuen Coincidence Measured by Body/ Andrew Maerkle Based in Hong Kong, Pak Sheung Chuen is known for works involving subtle interventions into the everyday urban environment.

Lam Siu-wing, Flaneur 11 Homeward Bound (2013) The idea of walking from one side of Hong Kong to the other was provoked by the depression of seeking a new job. After spending every single day sending application at home for no result, I was awaken by the days of boredom. I randomly think of a place on the other side of the city: Yuen Long, just on foot. I did documentation for my walk, I pondered my ego in my walk.

I finally walked for 10 times in 5 cities.

Max Neuhaus, https://web.archive.org/web/20150909191231/http://www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks/, https://jenniferstob.com/tag/max-neuhaus/, https://web.archive.org/web/20151013081953/http://www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks/vectors/performance/fontanamix-feed/fontanamix-feed.htm, https://web.archive.org/web/20150909191231/http://www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks/

The Green Line (Francis Alÿs, Jerusalem, 2004). "In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo.The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem"

Resonating Sculpture II, Handarbeit (Reni Hofmüller, 2016)

http://vimeo.com/132929393 "Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic."

Polymorphous Space (Tetsuo Kogawa)

Electrical Walks (Christina Kubisch)

http://vimeo.com/173325533

Workshops

RootIO: Community Radio as a Service (RootIO Radio, Radical Networks, October 2018 )
This workshop introduces participants to the RootIO platform, and takes them through the steps of creating a station.

ONDES SAUVAGES, FEMINIST FUTUROTOPIAS (r∆∆dio c∆∆rgo and Spideralex, Rencontres BANDITS-MAGES, November 2018)
A workshop on speculative writing of feminist technologies and collective sound narrative. A workshop to reclaim our relationships with techniques and technologies, to subvert these techniques, to blur genders and blow up codes and rules: to interlock emerging worlds with appealing futures.