ISSUE 15

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For Issue 15 we, XPUB1, broadcasted 8 times a radio show. With every week 1 episode. The structure was dens; On Monday and Tuesday we watched, read and talked about information and learned things on different software. On Wednesday we had to come up with ideas and produce them immediately so it could be broadcasted every Thursday.

ANNOTATING

✦ Read and Notes

BROADCASTING

✶ Episode 1 / Transition and Trans-Actions Intersections

PROTOTYPING

For the first radio show we learned to work with Liquidsoap and Icecast. We learned the connection between the Icecast server and worked with files connecting Liquidsoap in the terminal. For this broadcast I've used some online AI software to convert random images of turtles into music. I've also used text from our class Telegram group to audio with Google translate. Although I'm used to broadcast radio, I have a monthly show on Worm Radio, it was new to me to create audio/ music with different content other than my own voice.

The website of this broadcast is visible here:Episode 1, unfortunetaly the audio is not playable anymore since the Liquidsoap file is not running anymore. This is sad for the archiving purpose, however my contribution was too experimental, in the sense that it was very long and boring and because of lacking a context it is not recommended listening to it anyway.

✶ Episode 2 / Les Sons XPUB

PROTOTYPING

For this Episode I worked together with Jacopo. We searched for different words used in audio and their meaning. Words such as: echo, butterfly effect, reverb. From these terms we made a small glossary in audio format. We looked for placed around the Wijnhaven/Blaak building with high reverb and echo qualities. We recorded on different places the spoken glossary.

✶ Episode 3 / A Generative State of Mind

PROTOTYPING

✦ Sonic pi

✶ Episode 4 / The Act of Untethering

For this broadcast we worked as a group on this text, The Word of Unbinding, of Ursula K le Guin. The final result is an adaption of the text in the shape of an audio play.

HOST

For this episode Kendal and me were the caretakers

PROTOTYPING

For this issue I focussed on creating the design of the website, a bit on changing the original text, recording Kendal's voice and editing the voice recordings last minute with Audacity.

The adapation of the text was focussed more on the digital world. As a class we tried to find as many synonyms relating to the internet & computers. Because of this I was thinking of this classic "Hacker" style design. Something with falling green numbers, things very Matrixesque. For the first prototype of the web design I tried implementing some free found javascript codes. It was interesting for me to search for codes and make it work in web design, but it was too ready made to use. Later I tried different typography based web designs and trying things out with ascii. With just HTML & CSS I experimented with movement & animation. For the title design on the final result I used this Ascii generator.


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✶ Episode 5 / Broken Phone

For this broadcast I did not add a contribution. The rhythm of broadcasting every week was not in sync with having ideas all the time, so for this weeks episode I took a break.

✶ Episode 6 / Sobremesa

HOST

For this episode Nami and me were the caretakers.

After 5 episodes, our group work as a class was a bit scattered, so Nami and me decided to use this broadcast for digesting what we have done so far. Personally this was a natural reaction in the process for me because it was hard to keep up with the phase of broadcasting every week; the days of the week were fully booked for a lot of reading material, watching documentaries and less for reflecting and digesting. One word that came to my mind is this lovely noun "Sobremesa".

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