SI18 - Radio Implicancies

link to the special issue release page

The Special Issue 18 - Radio Implicancies - "is about practicing interdependencies. About how to stay with the complex entanglements between the personal, the economical, the political and the computational. About thinking, using and making technology with mutual relations in mind."

“Radio Implicancies”, is a series of eight weekly released sound publications. We have been shapeshifting each Tuesday of the week into our own audience and constantly shuffled positions in the overall work infrastructure. This modular approach enabled an interdependent publishing structure in which we all took turns in order to share responsibilities in a sustainable manner.

Every week 3-4 caretakers would invite the rest of the group to elaborate and contribute to the weekly publication on a specific topic, or format or keyword. The caretakers would also collect the contributions and assemble them together and be in charge of the listening settings in which we would deep listen the result.

Every other Tuesday of each week, somehow estranged from everyone’s work progress, all the members, except the care-takers (those responsible of the outcome of that week’s publication), would walk into a dedicated room unaware of the experience they would step into.

The publications shifted from edited projects to live performances, presenting tools, interface or instruments for the public to thread all the pieces together themselves. The listener’s experience evolved from that of a brutal unintentional edit of disparate sound-works, to an intentional curated piece, interlaced by a common rhythm: that of different binding sounds.

It follows a small log of each week. See the common documentation page of this special issue on this page

#00: test test

We created microphones with coils and piezos. Did a quick test recording kalimba and Manetta talking in the background

#01: Yet to be named

https://issue.xpub.nl/18/01/

Contributors: Mitsa and Grgr

Mitsa and I went to Noordplein to discuss what to record, our contribution was a layered talk about how to field record An audio track with parts of mitsa's and erica's conversations, one evening at nordplein. It is composed as two parallel monologues. On the left speaker is mostly erica's voice and on the right side mostly mitsa's. Talking mostly about public space, field recording in public spaces, the position of the one that records and the one that is being recorded, the difference between soundscape and pure library sounds, how to choose what is urgent to be published, while the sounscape of noordplein is present