Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive
Special Issue #22: September - December 2023
In collaboration with Radio WORM
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A working title, image, and text
For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! Michael Murtaugh (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)
Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive
Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.
SI22 pads and wiki pages
- Protocols pad
- Category:Protocol
- Collective guidelines
- Worm reflections pad
- Future broadcast ideas pad
WEEK 1
Monday 18 September
- 10:00 - 13:00 Kick off with Michael + Manetta + Joseph + Steve + Lidia visit Radio Worm + welcome with Ash Kilmartin + Lukas Simonis, LOCATION: WORM (adress: Boomgaardsstraat 71, we will leave from the XPUB studio to walk together, meet at 9:30)
- 14:00 - 17:00 prototyping with Michael, in the Aquarium (back at the school)
Introducing the project: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive (Week 1)
PAD of the week
- Protocols pad
- The protocol category: Category:Protocol
- Making a collective field recording audio collage
- Group discussion: Introduce Hand Signals : Speaking / Feeling PROTOCOL...
- Select initial caretakers for tomorrow morning
- Readings for next week: Barthes, Phelan, Foucault?
- Read a text live (material for Tuesdays broadcast)? ... Read aloud protocol
- Prerecording a tape for Tuesday 19
Tuesday 19 September
- https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week1
- 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + listening session, with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
- Caretakers meet (with Florian Cramer, tbc) at WORM at 9:45. Others will meet in the aquarium/XPUB to listen.
PLAYLIST INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL Reading
- 13:00 - 17:00 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
11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Steve + Lídia
Info on today's seminar and links to resources here:
Read and upload here:
Friday 22 September
19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 2
Monday 25 September
Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
- 10:00 - 13:00 morning: meet Lieuwe Zelle and the hard drive + Active Archives
- 14:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-25
Naming the server pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/naming-the-pi
(notes below)
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
- 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + Listening: The Laurence Rassel Show, + exercises, listening session with Michael + Manetta
- 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta
Today's shownotes: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week2
Radio broadcast script: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Radio_%F0%9F%AA%B1_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93
Radio broadcast reflections: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/worm_reflections
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-26
(notes below)
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) (ffmpeg to compress an MP3, place it in a HTML....)
Readings for next week
first I think the two articles Maria X posted are nicely relevant to what we’ll be covering next week, so give them a look:
@_Maria Χ|74 said:
Some nice readings:
(a) A link to the editorial of vol. 25, issue 2 (2002) of *The Journal for Media History*, which contains a long, very enlightning paragraph on the definition of "radio archives". The whole article (in fact the whole issue) is worth reading: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.841
(b) An article from the same issue, good to skim through in order to understand the concept of "silent radio archive": https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.822
and second, a text from German theater maker and theoretician Bertolt Brecht, The Radio as a Communications Apparatus )
Happy Reading and see you next Monday!
Friday 29 September
19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 3
Monday 2 October
Special Issue with Michael & Joseph
- 10:00 - 12:00: Week III of Special Issue 23 is about transmission and streaming
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael
Reading for next week
- All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill
- George Perec's Thinking Machines, Chapter 2 in Mainframe Experimentalism, see zulip for access and proper link
Tuesday 3 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
- Snownotes pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week3
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
- 10:00 check in protocols + care takers
- 11:00 check in with reading
- 12:00 making podcast RSS feeds
- 12:30 working with CSS Paged Media
- 13:00 BREAK
- 14:00 exercises: generating scripts
- 17:00 end of the day
Tuesday 10 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + breakfast-listening session with Michael + Manetta (Die Maschine)
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta
Wednesday 11 October
- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve
Friday 13 October
- 12:30 - 13:30: Outside/Parallel event of interest: Laurence Rassel @ PZI link on wdka research site
19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 5: AUTUMN VACATION
Autumn vacation
WEEK 6
Monday 23 October
Special Issue with Michael & Joseph
- 10:00 - 13:00: Week 6 of SI23 is "live-to-tape" its about ability of recording sound (analog, digital), ...
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael
Tuesday 24 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: morning: Radio Worm! + listening session (curated playlist of examples to listen to) with Michael + Joseph
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
(notes below)
(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
- 11:00 - 17:00 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
- 10:00 - 13:00:
- 14:00 - 17:00: afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
Tuesday 31 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta
Wednesday 1 November
- 11:00 - 17:00 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 Presentation and Presence in studio (* not conflicting with any already scheduled programming)
- SI22 pre-launch! First search engine interactions with an audience?
- XPUB table with shelve
WEEK 8
Monday 6 November
Special Issue with Michael & Joseph
- 10:00 - 13:00:
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael
Tuesday 7 November
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
Wednesday 8 November
- 11:00 - 17:00: 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
- 10:00 - 13:00: no class
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta
Tuesday 14 November
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! (up to you to decide if you want to do it)
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta
Wednesday 15 November
- 11:00 - 17:00 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
- 10:00 - 13:00:
- 14:00 - 17:00 : Machine Listening workshop with Ahnjili ZhuParris
Ahnjili ZhuParris: Machine Listening Workshop
How can a computer understand voice. Beyond applications like speech to text, tuning an audio recording into a text transcription, what other ways can voice be represented (pace, hesitation, changes of pitch). How can these representations be used to index and (re) order audio, and how can machine learning techniques be applied to group or classify audio. Beyond the hype of AI that can do anything, what is actually still a challenge for algorithmic approaches to voice. What dangers exist with these techniques, and how can one remain a critical practitioner exploring urgent and relevant questions while engaging with these new tools?
Ahnjili ZhuParris is a data scientist with a critical artist practice. She will also be participating at the Impakt festival in Utrecht this November.
Tuesday 21 November
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
Wednesday 22 November
- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Lídia
Friday 24 November
- 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 11
Monday 27 November
- 10:00 - 13:00: Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
- (help with XPUB2 Pre-assessment?)
Tuesday 28 November
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta
Wednesday 29 November
- 11:00 - 17:00: 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
- 10:00 - 13:00:
- 14:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Michael
Tuesday 5 December
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
- 13:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Manetta
Wednesday 6 December
- 11:00 - 17:00: 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)