Prototyping/2019-2020/T3

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

01

COMMAND-LINE AUDIO WORKSTATION

• Listen: Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a room

• the materiality of digital audio: samples, sampling rate, sample width, format, channels... See Sound and listening
• Why does a 8000Hz recording sound different than 44100Hz?
• playing "raw" and non-sound data ...
• the example of the phonautograph
• commandline audio editing with ffmpeg...
• cutting: extracting chunks with a start / duration
• assembling
• bash scripts with loops / variables for audio manipulation
• Example: spectrumsort
• Filtering for radio/streams:
• compression (as in Dynamic range compression different from audio data compression
• "Loudness" and "Normalisation"... What is replaygain and why can it help?
• liquidsoap for sound processing

Exercise: Create an "audio probes" a combination of particular content and a filter that (metaphorically, or literally) resonate

resources:

• sound art on ubu

Question relevant to the special issue: Are we streaming in stereo / mono? At what bitrate... Does it matter?

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

PLAYER

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

BOTS

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