User:Kiara/Special Issue 25

▁▂▃Protocols for Collective Performance▃▂▁

Since everything seems to be a mise en abyme, this page is going to be all about protocols, in order to be meta and in harmony with this Special Issue's title.

Protocol for a field recording

Audio file taken from aporee.org near the Balma-Gramont metro station in Toulouse.
Listen to the audio on the website

Map of France to locate Toulouse

Context

Map of Toulouse to locate the place of the recording

This precise place is actually one of the city's borders. It makes the connection between Toulouse and the city called Balma, which is in the North-East.
On the photo above, you can see the Hers river, and a bridge, on which the metro passes (hear it at 01:49). Near this precise point on the map is a big commercial complex, lots of companies and an entrance to the highway. So this is obviously not the place you would expect to hear the birds. Yet, here they are! 🐦‍⬛

Metadata

Memory from the place

A song that goes with the memory (kind of)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlwgC9yqNcw This is a song from my childhood.

Permission granted to share all the audios in the radio show for Sept. 23 2024

---

Protocol for mourning a database

See User:Kiara/mourning for pictures

• Choose a date in the calendar, maybe the day you lost the DB :(( and set it as a holiday.
• Tell your boss/clients/whoever you want you're in grief and need a mourning leave.
• Rebuild the DB when grief is over :((
• Learn to backup your DBs to prevent future griefs.

---

Protocol for a first radio show

The very first show that took place at Radio WORM with Sevgi, Fred, Kim and Martina on 23^rd September 2024.
Listen to the show on Mixcloud!!
We used the field recordings, metadata and songs people put on their Field Recording wiki pages.

• 
• 

We made a map tracing the different routes we took with the recordings!

---

Protocols for Collective Reading

See the pages referenced below:

• Alphabet Soup
• Bookclub
• The pads from Lidia's sessions listed in the XPUB 2024-2026 Survival Guide

---

Protocols for a Jam Session

Jam Session of 24th September 2024 with Joesph: creating instruments with unusual objects

Jam 1

Jam 2 (chaos)

Jam 3 (quiet)

Protocol for Canon Music

Session with Michael - 14/10/2024

Reading and acting the Clapping Music by Steve Reich

The pattern is 3-2-1-2 and it's looping.
What happens when the second clapper enters and loops their part?
→ It becomes a canon!
What would be a better way of writing this partition?
→ In a wheel!

It feels like unveiling a secret hidden in the partition - like solving a riddle!

Protocol for organising an event

Week from 28/10/2024 to 03/11/2024

Having 3 meetings in 2 days about the task management, making working groups, deciding on what we do and how we do it.
I am in the documentation team, to find ways to archive the whole event (websiteeeeeeeeee)

My project idea for the event

Inspired by Sarah Garcin's Radio to Print workshops 🠶 there's a python dependency to transform speech into printed text.

Mixed with Eleni's idea of having a spoken input transformed into music via VCV Rack -- in the end we get

 spoken input => becomes music for the listeners + gets printed live (thermal or fax machine)

Adding Zuhui's idea

To engage visitors in this performance, they can become part of the foundational text/speech material for the auditory output: One or two writers will be present in the room, live scripting as they observe the event. This observation can focus on the visitors —or anyone in the room— and may include fictional elements depending on the writers' interpretations and creative choices. Ideally, this live-scripting will be projected on a screen, allowing visitors to watch as they’re being observed and transformed into text, and then speech, which then becomes sound and then text again (in VCV+python) —all in real-time.

Sevgi's idea

This script could also serve as a part of documentation(post-production) of the event. Because it’s the writing of the live observation made directly in the moment and setting of the performance.

Whole public needed

Works best if not time framed but could maybe work if the frame is around 2h

   Remaining questions to work on:
   - Is it live radio or a recording during the day? After thinking about it: with Zuhui's addition to the pitch, maybe recording makes more sense? (open question)
   - Ask Joseph/Manetta how to install the python dependencies because i can't make it
   - Work on how to connect all the different processes (python + vcv + livescript)