Prototyping/2019-2020/T3

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Prototyping session Spring 2020, in the context of Special Issue #12: Radio Implicancies

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COMMAND-LINE AUDIO

Command line audio workstation

  • Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a room youtube
  • the materiality of digital audio: samples, sampling rate, sample width, format, channels
  • Broadcast audio filtering: compression (as in Dynamic range compression different from audio data compression / "Loudness" and "Normalisation"
  • commandline audio editing ...
  • extracting chunks -- start / duration
  • assembling
  • bash scripts with loops / variables
  • liquidsoap for editing ... / filters: comb, compand, clip, bpm detection (could we use it to annotate/sort audio), amplify, add, ref
  • phonautograph: sonifying non-sound data ...

Audio probes ... exercise: create a resonance between a given recording and the filter / process applied to it.

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VOICE

  • text to speech / speech synthesis

Specifically the case of [MBROLA](https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA) and the "free" but not "libre" voices. https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices

Espeak + MBrola https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md

Projects spɛl ænd spik. hellocatfood (antonio roberts) https://www.hellocatfood.com/spell-and-speak/

"real" VOICES http://librivox.org

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PLAYER

Radio webpage

(meta/way of working Publishing via git/githook TRY! )

04

Cross system / bots (2 parts?)

  • infobot
  • eliza
  • mud/moo
  • Bot / chatroom
  • Radio stream / schedule
  • mediawiki API (pull + push) .. example of epicpedia?
  • etherpad API (pull + push?) .. example of etherlamp (make js version?)

See: https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/corpusfantastica-moo-and-lambda-projects

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