User:Wyn/Special Issue 25/WATER

Introduction

We depicted our radio show as an exploration underwater, with three periods (also the structure of the radio show): water surfing, diving, and emerging. The confusion and questions (What is experimental? What is a protocol?) we encounter in this journey are like bubbles flowing underwater. The memes, songs, texts, audios, and music would be like bubbles emerging in our minds. During our group meeting, it was raining outside. Since the soundscape of Rotterdam was the last radio show's theme, I hoped this show would continue the audio journey from Rotterdam to somewhere else. Rotterdam is a canal city, so I came up with the idea of rivers. Our group members wanted to set up the soundscape in an abstract way, so we turned to water - it's everywhere and obvious, making it easy to find sound material. We still had not figured out how the sound board works, so we wanted to try TouchDesigner to make the sound play more fluidly.

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Water_radio_sound

Sound I collected

"Be water my friend" "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." Bruce Lee was not only a martial artist, but also a philosopher. His speech about the idea of water has turned into a meme nowadays. This speech fits to our experimental publishing perfectly.

From internet achive: Noorderhoofd, Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands - Sem Zeeman - Noorderhoofd [51.98021° N, 4.11153° O] through the ears of its aquatic- and surrounded wildlife, adapted to the petrochemical industries and cargo shipping