User:Danny van der Kleij/Proposal excerpts
Excerpts from Graduation proposal (with additions regarding thesis)
In my previous work and research on the human voice and the way it's transmitted via electrical means I stumbled upon the vocoder. The vocoder is a method of speech synthesis, it is used and overused in pop music today. What fascinated me the most is the fact that the vocoder was initially developed to send encrypted messages during world war 2 since it was part of the Sigaly speech encipherment system. The vocoder is not the only piece of wartime equipment that has made its way into pop music, but the fact that it is used for improvement or alteration of the human voice is what separates it from the rest.
+The vocoder is also fascinating because artists that used the vocoder in its early days were aware of the military history of the device. Same as with video-tape
+Project Future- Ray Gun Omics 1983 (Reaganomics) [1]
From the idea of sending encrypted messages in sound also came the fascination of using sound as a carrier for other media.
In short the fictive frame allows for parameters, some limitations and some possibilities in a given context. I intend for this context to evolve naturally from the choices I have made in my research and the way I approach this project. In researching alternative methods of distribution, encryption and creating an alternative secure network, I will use this fictive frame in order to solidify my reasoning as to why these alternatives should be used.
+Example of a fictive frame rather then a radio play/drama is the Electrifying Mojo and the Midnight Funk Association. [2]
Previous work:
Free Wikileaks Pirate Radio
...Because of the reproducibility of all digital material, the source has fewer value then with analog material. If the Wikileaks server would ever be taken down, the holders of downloaded Wikileaks material could recreate it. The concept of medium was also very important to me. Nowadays the average computer user also has access to some form of printer, thus if anyone had downloaded Wikileaks content it could be printed. I chose radio because it is one of the most fleeting media, it happens only at a certain time but it can be picked up by anyone within transmission radius.
The schizophonic search
By suggesting the possibility of hearing voices on the radio, I saw the Schizoponic Search as a way to experiment with the perception of a work of sound art. The broadcast frequencies are hidden so there is an element in which the user does not know where the work ends and where it begins. Playing with the intrinsic nature of man to recognise and find patterns, thereby further connecting the term schizophonia to its origin of hearing voices.
+discusses distribution for a brief moment, possibly relates to momentarily based Utopia.
+discusses locality of radio. Locality is an important aspect when discussing Utopia.