Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive
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.
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
- Protocols pad
- The protocol category: Category:Protocol
- Making a collective field recording audio collage
- Group discussion: Introduce Hand Signals : Speaking / Feeling PROTOCOL...
- Select initial caretakers for tomorrow morning
- Readings for next week: Barthes, Phelan, Foucault?
- Read a text live (material for Tuesdays broadcast)? ... Read aloud protocol
- Prerecording a tape for Tuesday 19
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:
Read and upload here:
Friday 22 September
19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 2
Monday 25 September
Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
- 10:00 - 12:00 morning: meet Lieuwe Zelle and the hard drive
- 13:00 - 17:00 afternoon: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
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
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....)
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 called "live-to-tape" on is about Radio Art, ability of recording sound (analog, digital), ...
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph + Michael
Tuesday 3 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Joseph
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Joseph
Wednesday 4 October
Methods class with Lídia
Friday 6 October
19:00-20:00: live on Radio Worm! (optional)
WEEK 4
Monday 9 October
Special Issue with Michael & Manetta
- 10:00 - 13:00:
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
screenplay diagrams (speech to text with Vosk)
Tuesday 10 October
- 10:00 - 12:00: Radio Worm! + listening session with Michael + Manetta (Die Maschine)
- 13:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta
screenplay diagrams (Python intro → POS tagging → graphviz; or just plain text if this is too much)
Wednesday 11 October
- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods class with Steve
Friday 13 October
- 12:30 - 13:30: Outside/Parallel event of interest: Laurence Rassel @ PZI link on wdka research site
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:
- 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
(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! / prototyping support with Manetta
- 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:
-- SPECIAL GUEST ?? Ahnjili ZhuParris (tentative, option 2)
- 14:00 - 17:00 : prototyping with Joseph + Michael
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
-- SPECIAL GUEST ?? Ahnjili ZhuParris (tentative)
- 14:00 - 17:00: prototyping with Manetta + Michael
- (Pre-assessment with XPUB2 ?)
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)