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| =Andre Castro, Thematic Project 'Radio Liberté Equalité Beyoncé', 2012, Trimester: 2, Year:1=
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| == Description ==
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| Liberté, Equalité, Beyoncé constitutes a prototype of online radio station, created from audio material continuously picked up from archive.org. The station streams an hourly schedule of programs. Each program is formed by combining two factors: a specific sound universe and a topic; this combination is actualized in two steps:
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| 1) collecting (daily) online texts on the topic in question (eg: weather forecast; cookery; poems) from rss-feeds;
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| 2) querying the archive.org for sounds tagged under each of the words which constitutes the collected text, without a specific archive's collection (eg: classical music, old 78rpm records, hiphop, spoken-word );
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| The project's front-end http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/radio/ contains an embedded player currently play file metadata display (when present), including a link to archive.org's file location.
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| ===Technology employed===
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| * python script: to collect the rss-feeds, query archive.org API, and generate playlists from the archive's sub-collections;
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| * liquidsoap: to manage the stream scheduling by: alternating playlists, introducing jingles, and reading the files' metadata; Sending the sound output to icecast2
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| * icecast2: to broadcast the sound stream to online listeners
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| * html5/javascript: to embed the sound stream into the website
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| ===Aims===
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| * explore and understand the specificities of the archive.org, using some of the possibilities offered by its API to query its contents.
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| * experiment with online sound streaming and scheduling
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| * create a serendipitous system within the archive, which aims to allow for unexpected audio items to emergence
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| * create an alternative interface to the database, with a more narrative format
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| * encourage the emergence discourses within the archive.
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| * promote archive.org - a open, communitarian archive, without a direct relation to power structures and, for the most part,a product of its users' contributions.
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| * reflect on the (im)possibility of online archives not scripted by the ideologies behind them
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| * reflect on the differences between a repository(database) and an archive
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| * question the two employed media: internet and radio, by engaging them into a dialogue.
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| * ultimately, create a fictional radio station, that, although being run by algorithms, could appear to be run by humans
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| == Media ==
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| === Audio===
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| [[File:LBE-recording.ogg]]
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| === URLS ===
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| front-end: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/radio/
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| stream: http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl:8000/liberte_egalite_beyonce
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| === Photos ===
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| [[File:radio_LEB.png]]
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| ==Essay==
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| [[Category: Trimester Projects]]
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