Prototyping/2019-2020/T3

Prototyping session Spring 2020, in the context of Special Issue #12: Radio Implicancies

01

March 5

Command line audio workstation

• Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a room youtube
• the materiality of digital audio: samples, sampling rate, sample width, format, channels
• Broadcast audio filtering: compression (as in Dynamic range compression different from audio data compression / "Loudness" and "Normalisation"
• commandline audio editing ...
• extracting chunks -- start / duration
• assembling
• bash scripts with loops / variables
• liquidsoap for editing ... / filters: comb, compand, clip, bpm detection (could we use it to annotate/sort audio), amplify, add, ref
• phonautograph: sonifying non-sound data ...

Audio probes ... exercise: create a resonance between a given recording and the filter / process applied to it.

• More examples of sound art: http://www.ubu.com/sound/

02

VOICE

• text to speech / speech synthesis

Specifically the case of [MBROLA](https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA) and the "free" but not "libre" voices. https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices

Espeak + MBrola https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md

Projects spɛl ænd spik. hellocatfood (antonio roberts) https://www.hellocatfood.com/spell-and-speak/

"real" VOICES http://librivox.org

03

Radio webpage

• Audio player (html/js)
• guest book cgi??!! (socially determined captcha !)
• Player: display metadata (Metadata from icecast? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115531/is-it-possible-to-get-icecast-metadata-from-html5-audio-element ) TRY!
• Generate podcast/RSS with json + Template (template.py(python+jinja)/makefile)
• Stream access (scheduling)

(meta/way of working Publishing via git/githook TRY! )

04

Cross system / bots (2 parts?)

• infobot
• eliza
• mud/moo

• Bot / chatroom
• Radio stream / schedule
• mediawiki API (pull + push) .. example of epicpedia?
• etherpad API (pull + push?) .. example of etherlamp (make js version?)

See: https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/corpusfantastica-moo-and-lambda-projects