The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive/Content Protocol

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🎵 Play transition jingle: move_2.mp3

Protocoller: Initiate Content Protocol. 

🎵 Play background Music: background_static.mp3

Protocoller: Announce the TIME.
Performer: It is [TIME] and you're tuned in to Protocols for an Active Archive on Radio Worm. We're now going to listen to... What are we going to listen to?



Navigator: Oh my, we're flying through a rich part of the archives right now
Performer: Woah, it's beautiful here. What's that!?
🎵 Play <10sec audio track with different pieces of content together, much like the WORMHOLE track
Navigator: Wait, let me tune the receiver.
🎵 Play 1 musical track that was part of the cacophony before in the background
Protocoller: Navigator, explain channel tuning.
Navigator: Moving through the archive, a lot of content passes the Ether. Channels let us focus on one piece of content at the time. I can move the channel up [MOVE CHANNEL UP, PLAY OTHER FILE, WAIT A FEW SECONDS], or down [MOVE CHANNEL DOWN, PLAY MUSICAL PIECE, WAIT A FEW SECONDS]. What channel should we tune in to?
Performer: Let Ground Control decide.
Performer: Roger that. Ground Control, what channel do you want to listen to? I'm receiving 5 channels.

🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track Connecting_to_the_ether.mp3

Present PAD with the 5 channels:

(UP2) ...
(UP1) Get Lamp
(BASE) 1000 Fragments
(DOWN1) The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
(DOWN2) ...

Navigator: Copy that Ether, [moving channel UP / STAY / DOWN]. Remember: we can change the channel at any time!


Protocoller: "Initiate switch channel protocol". Step 1: Provide Ground Control with the paths and request for (re)direction.

🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track Connecting_to_the_ether.mp3

During this track

Navigator: Ground Control, should we MOVE UP, MOVE DOWN or STAY ON THE SAME CHANNEL?

Navigator pastes in the pad "Ground Control, should we MOVE UP, MOVE DOWN or STAY ON THE SAME CHANNEL?"

If there are no clear instructions:

Navigator: Oh no, they must not understand that we'll stay in this loop unless someone writes a decision in the pad

Go back to 🎵 Play Connecting to the ether track→

If instructions == "up"

Navigator: Instructions are received, thank you Ground Control
Performer: Thank you Ground Control. Navigator, let's switch the channel now
Navigator: Switching the channel...Switching the channel...Switching the channel...

🎵 Play channel switch channel_switch.mp3



If instructions == "stay"

Navigator: Instructions are received, 
Protocoller: Say: Thank you Ground Control
Performer: Thank you Ground Control. 
Protocoller: Present the new content
Performer: You will now be listening to The art of asking your boss for a raise by George Perec, a text written in 1968. High attention is required due to a lack of punctuation and presence of looping thoughts.

🎵 Play The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise


If instructions == "down"

Navigator: Instructions are received, thank you Ground Control
Performer: Thank you Ground Control. Navigator, let's switch the channel now
Navigator: Switching the channel...Switching the channel...Switching the channel...

🎵 Play channel switch channel_switch.mp3

Performer: It is [TIME] and you're tuned in to Protocols for an Active Archive on Radio Worm. We're now going to listen to..
 Performer: CONTENT MICHAEL GAVE US STILL NEED AN INTRO

the actual content link