The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive/Content Protocol

🎵 Play transition jingle: move_2.mp3

Protocoller: Initiate Content Protocol. 

🎵 Play background Music: background_static.mp3

Protocoller: Announce the TIME.
Performer: It is [TIME] and you're tuned in to Protocols for an Active Archive on Radio Worm. We're now going to listen to... What are we going to listen to?

Navigator: Oh my, we're flying through a rich part of the archives right now, a Content Funnel!
Performer: Woah, it's beautiful here. What's that!?

🎵 Play <10sec audio track with different pieces of content together, much like the WORMHOLE track

Navigator: Wait, let me tune the receiver.

🎵 Play 1 musical track that was part of the cacophony before in the background

Protocoller: Navigator, explain channel tuning.
Navigator: Moving through the archive, a lot of content passes the Ether. Channels let us focus on one piece of content at the time. I can move the channel up [MOVE CHANNEL UP, PLAY OTHER FILE, WAIT A FEW SECONDS], or down [MOVE CHANNEL DOWN, PLAY MUSICAL PIECE, WAIT A FEW SECONDS]. What channel should we tune in to?
Performer: Let Ground Control decide.
Performer: Roger that. Ground Control, what channel do you want to listen to? I'm receiving 5 channels.

🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track Connecting_to_the_ether.mp3

Present PAD with the 5 channels:
(UP) Get Lamp
(BASE) 1000 Fragments
(DOWN) The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

If there are no clear instructions in the PAD:

Navigator: I'm not getting any readings from Ground Control.
Protocoller: The only way to get through a Content Funnel is by getting to the very end.
Performer: Oh no, this is bad. 
Navigator: Ground Control, do you copy? Please indicate your preference of Channel.

🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track Connecting_to_the_ether.mp3

Repeat the above if necessary.

Otherwise, when a channel preference is received:

Navigator: Copy that Ether, [moving channel UP / STAY / DOWN]. Remember: we can change the channel at any time!

CHANNEL UP: Get Lamp -->
CHANNEL BASE: 1000 Fragments-->
CHANNEL DOWN: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise -->

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Return here after a piece of content has finished, and you're not redirected elsewhere:

Performer: Navigator, where to next?

If Ground Control tried to get to impossible CHANNELS (i.e. UP from CHANNEL UP or DOWN from CHANNEL DOWN):

Navigator: During the Content Funnel, we received some ambigous and chaotic readings from Ground Control. I suggest we re-establish the communicative protocol.

Communication Protocol -->

Otherwise:

Navigator: Let's move to the End of Broadcast Protocol. Redircting in 3... 2... 1...

End Broadcast Protocol -->