Special Issue #12: Radio Implicancies

RADIO IMPLICANCIES is a weekly broadcast of recorded and live matter brought to you by Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing programme. Radio Implicancies starts in the middle. Each broadcast means to engage with the way technologies are worlding the world. Take a deep breath and jump in on other ways of calculating, validating, ordering and framing collections of digital material. Let’s not wait for tomorrow to pay attention to the colonial conditionings of contemporary techno-cultures!

Contributors: Avital Barkai, Damlanur Bilgin, Sandra Golubjevaite, Tisa Neža Herlec, Mark van den Heuvel, Max Lehmann, Mika Motskobili, Clara Noseda, Anna Sandri, Ioana Tomici, Michael Murtaugh, Femke Snelting

ALL LISTED TRACKS BELOW CAN BE LISTENED HERE: https://issue.xpub.nl/12/index.html

#12.1

Protocall (i.c.w. Tisa Neža) a conversation about public speaking:
Lets not speak for now and communicate only by typing here... Will the thoughts be faster or slower?

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transcription: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/willthiswork

Synchronization: one cycle of two heartbeats getting in sync

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Jingle #1: Breakbeat drifting out of sync

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#12.2

Signals and messages (Damlark: a collaboration with Damla Bilgin)

Dj Karl Marx:Bumper (i.c.w. Max Lehmann)

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/12.2

#12.3

Bird Report Weekly fictive factual Bird report

File:Bird report export.ogg

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/12.3

#12.5: Daisy Bell

Decades after its release, we reveal what might have been the real reason HAL 9000 sang "Daisy Bell" in 2001, A Space Odyssey.

Remember how in Kubrick's 1968 visionary science fiction masterpiece, astronaut Dave Bowman is forced to shut the supercomputer HAL 9000 down after it malfunctions and kills the rest of the crew on their Jupiter-bound spacecraft? Well, as Bowman unplugs HAL's connections one by one, the machine has a flashback to its very first day of operation, when it demonstrated its abilities by singing a song. 

The song? "Daisy Bell," written in 1892 by Harry Dacre. But where did Kubrick get the idea to use that particular tune?

It turns out that in 1961, the IBM 7094, among the earliest and largest mainframe machines developed by the computing giant, became the first computer to sing, and the tune it warbled was, you guessed it, "Daisy Bell." It seems certain that Kubrick used this as the inspiration for HAL's signoff in his movie.

1. Nat King Cole - Daisy Bell (1963)
2. HAL 9000 - Daisy Bell (taken from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968)
3. Bonzi Buddi - Daisy Bell (1999)
4. John Kelly, Carol Lockbaum & Max Mathews - Daisy Bell (1961)
5. Christopher C. Capon & C64 floppy disk drive - Daisy Bell (1985)
6. Gerald Adams - Daisy Bell (1893)

Full video

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Links:

Nat King Cole - Daisy Bell (1963)
https://youtu.be/z-ZSVvQ_0FM

Deactivation of HAL-9000 (scene from 2001:A Space Odyssey, 1968)
https://youtu.be/c8N72t7aScY

Bonzi Buddy - Daisy Bell (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuUyfywhGQ

First computer (IBM) to sing Daisy Bell (1961)
https://youtu.be/41U78QP8nBk

C64 Foppy Drive singing (1985)
https://youtu.be/5gnMgmlKi_o

Gerald Adams - Daisy Bel (1893)
https://youtu.be/8EfGuzUZB3k

Resources:

Daisy Bell, a countess, a computer, and curious life of a song:
http://radiodaysmusic.com/main/daisy-bell-the-curious-life-of-the-song/

HAL 9000: the fictional artificial intelligence character from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

#12.6

Amen Generator
I am not sure...
Up and down count

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