Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Special Issue #22: Running from September - December 2023

In collaboration with Radio WORM

WEEK 1

Monday 18 September

- Kick off with Michael + Steve? - morning: visit Radio Worm + introduction by ASH - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Manetta + Michael

• Willem de Ridders tape show
• (Re-enact by asking for students to contribute a ~60sec audio file, and play them)
• USB stick / audio file exercise...

Fundamentals on ... Active Archives? Amy Spencer text about Pirate Radios Read a text live (Tuesday session) INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL... > Group discussion: Introduce Hand Signals : Speaking / Feeling PROTOCOL...

Tuesday 19 September

Prototyping with Joseph + Manetta - morning: Radio Worm! + listening session, with Michael + Joseph + Manetta, jitsi call in ?! PLAYLIST

• INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL
• Reading

- 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

Methods class with Steve

Friday 22 September

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

WEEK 2

Monday 25 September

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta - morning: interview Lieuwe / Hard drives ? - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

• 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

- morning: Radio Worm! + Perec Die Maschine, listening session with Michael + Manetta - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

• 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)
• Make your own page to host an audio file....
• (ffmpeg to compress an MP3, place it in a HTML....)

Friday 29 September

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

WEEK 3

Monday 2 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph - morning: Willem de Ridders radio "De Radiola Improvisatie Salon" and tape obsession "Walkman walks" (hardware without software) https://worm.org/2023/01/05/ode-to-willem-de-ridder-on-radio-worm/ https://en.glissando.pl/text/the-story-of-a-performer-the-story-of-an-item-willem-de-ridders-tape-experiments/ https://showcase.thebluebus.nl/music/various-projects/radiola-salon https://monoskop.org/images/2/22/De_Ridder_Retrospective_1983.pdf [p. 84] - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 3 October

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph Linear and non-linear media

• Sound analog/digital
• editing
• battery + speaker
• sox to generate files with different sampling rates, bit depths, and

Wednesday 4 October

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 6 October

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

WEEK 4

Monday 9 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta - morning: Adding materials to archive.org - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

• screenplay diagrams (speech to text with Vosk)

Tuesday 10 October

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta

• Die Maschine

- afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

• screenplay diagrams (Python intro → POS tagging → graphviz; or just plain text if this is too much)

Wednesday 11 October

Methods class with Steve

Friday 13 October

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

WEEK 5

Autumn vacation

WEEK 6

Monday 23 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 24 October

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session (curated playlist of examples to listen to) with Michael + Joseph - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

• (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

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 27 October

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

WEEK 7

Monday 30 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 31 October

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 1 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 3 November

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

Saturday 4 November + Sunday 5 November

Zine camp! : XPUB Stand + Possibilities for Workshops + Presentations

• SI22 pre-launch! First search engine interactions with an audience.
• XPUB table with shelve

WEEK 8

Monday 6 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 7 November

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 8 November

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 10 November

INC Event in Amsterdam This will be a "hybrid" event, partially live with room for "prerecorded" elements

WEEK 9

Monday 13 November

- afternoon: prototyping support with Manetta Special Issue with Michael & Manetta - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 14 November

- morning: Radio Worm! with Michael + Manetta - morning: prototyping support with Manetta - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 15 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 17 November

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

WEEK 10

Monday 20 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 21 November

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 22 November

Methods class with Lídia

Friday 24 November

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

WEEK 11

Monday 27 November

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta -- SPECIAL GUEST ?? Ahnjili ZhuParris (tentative) - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 28 November

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta - afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 29 November

Methods class with Steve

Friday 1 December

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

WEEK 12

Monday 4 December

Special Issue with Michael - morning: - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 5 December

- morning: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph + Manetta - afternoon: prototyping with Joseph + Manetta

Wednesday 6 December

Methods class with Lídia

Thursday 7 December

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

Friday 8 December

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