Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

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Special Issue #22: September - December 2023

In collaboration with Radio WORM

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For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! Michael Murtaugh (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)

Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.

SI22 pads and wiki pages

WEEK 1

Monday 18 September

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Kick off with Michael + Manetta + Joseph + Steve + Lidia visit Radio Worm + welcome with Ash Kilmartin + Lukas Simonis, LOCATION: WORM (adress: Boomgaardsstraat 71, we will leave from the XPUB studio to walk together, meet at 9:30)
  • 14:00 - 17:00 prototyping with Michael, in the Aquarium (back at the school)

Introducing the project: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive (Week 1)

PAD of the week

Tuesday 19 September

  • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week1
  • 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + listening session, with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
  • Caretakers meet (with Florian Cramer, tbc) at WORM at 9:45. Others will meet in the aquarium/XPUB to listen.

PLAYLIST INTRODUCTION PROTOCOL Reading

  • 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping, with Joseph + Manetta

introduce prototyping install yourself into XPUB1: set up collective server, decide on a name, command line quick intro, jupyter interface intro make folders to collect radio recordings + created audio pieces

Wednesday 20 September

11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Steve + Lídia

Info on today's seminar and links to resources here:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/20-09-2023_-Event_1

Read and upload here:

BarthesRadio

Friday 22 September

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 2

Monday 25 September

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

  • 10:00 - 13:00 morning: meet Lieuwe Zelle and the hard drive + Active Archives
  • 14:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-25

Naming the server pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/naming-the-pi

(notes below)

learning from other audio projects/radio archives exercise, manipulating/reading/transforming HTML cutups ... taking existing pages, looking at sources, saving (as local copies) and manipulating. (Maybe (not yet) examples with webaudio api / but maybe nice to have some examples to show that further filtering /effects is possible) HTML/CSS Question of the code editor + FTP/Filezilla access to the server + working offline

List of audio projects/radio archives:

   audio projects
   http://www.publicrec.org/archive/2-01/2-01-014/2-01-014.html
   https://rec-on.org/
   radio archives
   https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts
   https://rururadio.org/
   https://radionopal.com/archivo/
   https://thenifty.radio/archives/
   https://radioensayo.com/via
   https://fugitive-radio.net/
   https://linktr.ee/taifinalert
   https://www.wazaradio.org/
   https://kollektiv-eigenklang.com/
   https://cashmereradio.com/
   https://sharedfrequencies.live/
   https://sounds.lumbung.space/library/podcasts
   https://stream.vvvvvvaria.org/
   https://kunstradio.at/
   https://ridderradio.com/
   http://cba.fro.at
   https://jokebux.klingt.org/gro.tgnilk/jokebux.html

Tuesday 26 September

  • 10:00 - 12:00 morning: Radio Worm! + Listening: The Laurence Rassel Show, + exercises, listening session with Michael + Manetta
  • 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta

Today's shownotes: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week2

Radio broadcast script: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Radio_%F0%9F%AA%B1_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93_%F0%9F%8D%93

Radio broadcast reflections: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/worm_reflections

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-Monday-Sept-26

(notes below)

HTML/CSS continued Making a sound board / versioning Parliament What materials do we work with here? Can we use material from the hard drives? And ask the students to make snippets/jingles in audacity? (download tools: wget/youtube-dl) (ffmpeg to compress an MP3, place it in a HTML....)

Readings for next week

first I think the two articles Maria X posted are nicely relevant to what we’ll be covering next week, so give them a look:

@_Maria Χ|74 said:

Some nice readings:

(a) A link to the editorial of vol. 25, issue 2 (2002) of *The Journal for Media History*, which contains a long, very enlightning paragraph on the definition of "radio archives". The whole article (in fact the whole issue) is worth reading: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.841

(b) An article from the same issue, good to skim through in order to understand the concept of "silent radio archive": https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.822

and second, a text from German theater maker and theoretician Bertolt Brecht, The Radio as a Communications Apparatus )

Happy Reading and see you next Monday!

Friday 29 September

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 3

Monday 2 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Week III of Special Issue 23 is about transmission and streaming
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Reading for next week

Tuesday 3 October

Wednesday 4 October

Methods class with Lídia

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/04-10-2023_-Event_2

Friday 6 October

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 4

Monday 9 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

  • 10:00 check in protocols + care takers
  • 11:00 check in with reading
  • 12:00 making podcast RSS feeds
  • 12:30 working with CSS Paged Media
  • 13:00 BREAK
  • 14:00 exercises: generating scripts
  • 17:00 end of the day

Tuesday 10 October

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + breakfast-listening session with Michael + Manetta (Die Maschine)
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 11 October

  • 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve

Friday 13 October

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 5: AUTUMN VACATION

Autumn vacation

WEEK 6

Monday 23 October

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

  • 10:00 - 13:00: Week 6 of SI23 is "live-to-tape" its about ability of recording sound (analog, digital), ...
  • 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 24 October

  • 10:00 - 12:00: morning: Radio Worm! + listening session (curated playlist of examples to listen to) with Michael + Joseph
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph

(notes below)

(maybe HPSCHD)... Radio Art auto derby https://www.nporadio5.nl/fragmenten/theatervanhetsentiment/206abe94-3dc9-471c-b2ed-881805382ea6/2021-09-19-willem-de-ridder-zorgt-voor-files-in-de-polder-met-zijn-grote-oto-derby-1978 Make re-enactments? (Field recordings) https://www.kunstradio.at/2010A/14_03_10.html audio cutups (audio grep, SRT/timecode) Building casette tape loops

Wednesday 25 October

  • 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Lídia

Friday 27 October

  • 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 7

Monday 30 October

Special Issue with Michael & Manetta

  • 10:00 - 13:00:
  • 14:00 - 17:00: afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael

Tuesday 31 October

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 1 November

  • 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve

Friday 3 November

  • 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

Saturday 4 November + Sunday 5 November

Zine camp! : XPUB Stand + Possibilities for Presentation and Presence in studio (* not conflicting with any already scheduled programming)

  • SI22 pre-launch! First search engine interactions with an audience?
  • XPUB table with shelve

WEEK 8

Monday 6 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

  • 10:00 - 13:00:
  • 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 7 November

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 8 November

  • 11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Lídia

Friday 10 November

INC Event in Amsterdam This will be a "hybrid" event, partially live with room for "prerecorded" elements

WEEK 9

Monday 13 November

  • 10:00 - 13:00: no class
  • 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta

Tuesday 14 November

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! (up to you to decide if you want to do it)
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping support with Manetta

Wednesday 15 November

  • 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve

Friday 17 November

  • 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 10

Monday 20 November

Special Issue with Michael & Joseph

  • 10:00 - 13:00:
  • 14:00 - 17:00 : Machine Listening workshop with Ahnjili ZhuParris

Ahnjili ZhuParris: Machine Listening Workshop

How can a computer understand voice. Beyond applications like speech to text, tuning an audio recording into a text transcription, what other ways can voice be represented (pace, hesitation, changes of pitch). How can these representations be used to index and (re) order audio, and how can machine learning techniques be applied to group or classify audio. Beyond the hype of AI that can do anything, what is actually still a challenge for algorithmic approaches to voice. What dangers exist with these techniques, and how can one remain a critical practitioner exploring urgent and relevant questions while engaging with these new tools?

Ahnjili ZhuParris is a data scientist with a critical artist practice. She will also be participating at the Impakt festival in Utrecht this November.

Tuesday 21 November

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph

Wednesday 22 November

  • 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Lídia

Friday 24 November

  • 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 11

Monday 27 November

  • 10:00 - 13:00: Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
  • 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
  • (help with XPUB2 Pre-assessment?)

Tuesday 28 November

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta
  • 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta

Wednesday 29 November

  • 11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Steve

Friday 1 December

  • 19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)

WEEK 12

Monday 4 December

Special Issue with Michael

  • 10:00 - 13:00:
  • 14:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Michael

Tuesday 5 December

  • 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph + Manetta
  • 13:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Manetta

Wednesday 6 December

  • 11:00 - 17:00: Methods class with Lídia

Thursday 7 December

"Launch" @ Worm? Final show, wrap up with Radio Worm.... TBD

Friday 8 December

19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)