SI25 Broadcast 4: Protocols to Freestyle

Concept

We came together for only 1 meeting before the show were we discussed wanting to make a live show through and through. We all wanted to make something that was fun for us to make and not stick to a certain script religiously. We chose Generous Practises by Femke Snelting to 'perform' live and read aloud since it already had the right structure.

Roles

• Wyn/Claudio
• Sevgi
• Kim
• Feline

Pre-production

After learning VCV Rack in the course, we wanted to make a sound jamming. VCV Rack is an open-source software, imitating the working process of synthesis modules. We decided to use live jamming as the main protocol and work on live-jamming instruments that we can use on our computers to then connect to the radio stream.

Lukas turned on the stream prematurely so we can get into the spirit of LIVE radio. It was controversial but helpful.

Kim suggested reading one of the texts from the course out loud on the radio. We chose to perform Generous Practises by Femke Snelting with 3 hosts as the contributors. We divided the names into 3 groups and read accordingly. We stopped every chapter and turned the live music show on.

Feline decided she wants to use a program to make beats. She worked on this the whole weekend, Wyn also created a MIDI board on VCV Rack to use during the show. We also decided to use the MIDI board to type out the messages sent through Radio WORM's chatbot. At the end, VCV racks barely worked. We had to put on Sevgi's radio playlist which worked out fine.

Post-production

Claudio as a VJ and message reader

we played tunes! here is a link

Kim in front of Micophone