Kick off RADIOACTIVITY

https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/de_fine_art.01 (pad of the day - 2 September 2022)
Start the day with listening bits of last year's broadcast? Find it here https://hrnl-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/buzyn_hr_nl/EQecTQr5GelGtOg9SIu_HBUBH5WGRSlRUDriLJ8Bi1n0Uw?e=8ez2uP
archive broadcast 21/22 https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2021-12-17_Radio_Activity_Wireless_Orchestra/vvvvvvaria
Introduce ourselves. Who we are, plan of this course. Round of introduction
Question: what is your relationship with radio if any? experience, knowledge, do you find it interesting? A listening practice? To open up the notion of radio.
description of Radio Activity + show wiki and pad + share schedule briefly

morning 10:30-12:30 context/theory:

Technicalities/ fundaments of radio (analogue/digital and online radio) (oyo)

Radio art

John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No 4 instructed 12 performers at Columbia University to use radios as instruments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Landscape_No._4_(March_No._2) https://vimeo.com/49007247
https://magzhall.com/spiritual-radio/ Magz Hall's book radio
https://anarchy.translocal.jp/ Tetsuo Kogawa https://vimeo.com/204772735
https://radiorevolten.net/en/ RadioRevolten http://bird-renoult.net/artist-statement/
http://kunstradio.at/ RadioKunst in Austrian national radio http://kunstradio.at/2022B/02_07_22.html https://worm.org/projects/radio-worm/ Rotterdam's very own WORM radio
http://radia.fm/
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2021/04/podcast-293-exploring-radio-art-and-transmission-art/ https://phantompod.org/tag/radio-art/ A nice couple of podcasts/radioshows following the history of radio art

11:30-11:35 BREAK

Pirate Radio

A pirate radio station (also known as free radio, bootleg radio and clandestine radio), is essentially a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.

Radio Caroline 1964 - The popularity of pirate radio in the UK rose in the early 1960s, with pop music stations broadcasting from offshore ships or disused sea forts. As these pirate stations where broadcasting from international waters, they were not technically illegal. https://www.radioking.com/blog/pirate-radio-a-brief-history/
Holland: "Pirate" Radio Broadcasting Ship "Veronica" Off Dutch Coast - https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVACT26G0UPM61OSEWEE2LKAS9MK-HOLLAND-PIRATE-RADIO-BROADCASTING-SHIP-VERONICA-OFF-DUTCH-COAST
The Boat That Rocked (film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3xNmqxZQE
Taking space in the city of London through pirate radio - https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/radioactivity-5-seminal-pirate-radio-scene-london from min 07:19 to min 10:35. Innovation around music. The most generative of new musical forms. eg. 90s: Jungle breakbeats (UK rave scene), Drum and bass, garage, 2-step, UK funky, Grime (primarily black teenagers)

Online radio serving pandemic transmissions and wireless communities

Radio Alhara launched in Palestine at the very beginning of worldwide lockdowns in March 2020, online radio station Radio Alhara provides a platform for discussion, listening, and community-building. Founders invited audience to share music/sounds/material in a dropbox. Radio as a cultural center. Together with a group of sound platforms and sound artists started The Sonic Liberation Front project (SLF) in order to create one sound for Palestine; standing with Palestinian civilians in protesting against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and the repression of Palestinian communities everywhere. Through a dispersed network of friends and colleagues, using emails and social media (mainly instagram and facebook) Radio Alhara shared the url of the stream of SLF and invited other radio platforms to mirror it in their own infrastructures. - https://projectrevolver.org/features/yamakan-reimagining-spaces-on-a-pirate-radio-part-i-palestine/, https://yamakan.place/palestine/, https://www.facebook.com/radioalhara/ Varia Broadcasts for example was one of these platforms and mirrored the SLF in May and June 2021 - https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2021-05-20-Sonic-Liberation-Front/Online radio serving pandemic transmissions and wireless communities Radio Alhara launched in Palestine at the very beginning of worldwide lockdowns in March 2020, online radio station Radio Alhara provides a platform for discussion, listening, and community-building. Founders invited audience to share music/sounds/material in a dropbox. Radio as a cultural center. Together with a group of sound platforms and sound artists started The Sonic Liberation Front project (SLF) in order to create one sound for Palestine; standing with Palestinian civilians in protesting against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and the repression of Palestinian communities everywhere. Through a dispersed network of friends and colleagues, using emails and social media (mainly instagram and facebook) Radio Alhara shared the url of the stream of SLF and invited other radio platforms to mirror it in their own infrastructures. - https://projectrevolver.org/features/yamakan-reimagining-spaces-on-a-pirate-radio-part-i-palestine/, https://yamakan.place/palestine/, https://www.facebook.com/radioalhara/ Varia Broadcasts for example was one of these platforms and mirrored the SLF in May and June 2021 - https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2021-05-20-Sonic-Liberation-Front/

Digital Solidarity Networks - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks line 392

Political radio (eg feminism, anticapitalism etc)

Radio Fresh, a community station in Syria - During the conflict in Syria, a group of people wanting to broadcast their own news for the safety of the citizens and the avoidance of more killings, set up a radio station. Urgent announcements of battles, strikes, tutorials for medical care, music. When women started to broadcast and host their own radio programs in Radio Fresh, an extremist group, Nusra, stopped them from speaking on air. Nusra refused to listen to whatever they want to say, because they were women. The trick they found was to transform their voices technically to a male register – technicians helped them to change electronically the quality of their voice as they speak in the microphone. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/667/wartime-radio 56:20 - 57:27
Feminist Futurotopias - https://soundcloud.com/raadiocaargo/feminist-futurotopias-live-performance-extract, https://archive.org/details/futurotopiesfeministes_201901/Impro_audios_texte_jour4.mp3, https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/specfic/2019/05/29/documentation-atelier-ondes-sauvages-futurotopies-feministes-bandits-mages-par-spideralex-raadio-caargo/

RE#SISTER: the female and non-binary electronic music collective - https://worm.org/2021/03/08/resister-and-the-history-of-a-feminist-festival/, https://re-sister.nl/

Podcasts

difference between curated time/finished product
Whetstoneradio https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/radio
This american life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Radiotopia: the kitchen sisters, https://www.everythingisalive.com/
Team Human https://www.teamhuman.fm/ Gimlet media: Reply All : podcast about internet culture https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
Kamena soutien - greek feminism https://kamenasoutien.com/radiofwnikes-ekpompes/
Bulgaria - news summary - Den https://govori-internet.com/
disability visibility - https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/category/podcast/?fbclid=IwAR0v5LXOpSklE46eN6PcNjo5cbXgE7BF2Bvc0eMNfIyPM4tYlh7XrR2w4j4
Freedom Stories (fighting for social change) - https://lasraraspodcast.com/?fbclid=IwAR1pBTpF4H9qdK_L6ItDcPrF6wBkFfCwK3-lGg0C2UaVtPXhWoAgvjUkyIM
Politics of space and bodies https://thefunambulist.net/podcast?fbclid=IwAR2hp1qLHEeBrOSe6ukyKU4keuCFVNlm6hLeSWfDODr65-Gggh4dx-aPOBo
99% invisible : design in everyday life https://99percentinvisible.org/
disability visibility - https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/category/podcast/?fbclid=IwAR0v5LXOpSklE46eN6PcNjo5cbXgE7BF2Bvc0eMNfIyPM4tYlh7XrR2w4j4 Freedom Stories (fighting for social change) - https://lasraraspodcast.com/?fbclid=IwAR1pBTpF4H9qdK_L6ItDcPrF6wBkFfCwK3-lGg0C2UaVtPXhWoAgvjUkyIM Politics of space and bodies https://thefunambulist.net/podcast?fbclid=IwAR2hp1qLHEeBrOSe6ukyKU4keuCFVNlm6hLeSWfDODr65-Gggh4dx-aPOBo Song exploder : artists take apart their songs https://songexploder.net/podcast
Silver Eye Society https://www.patreon.com/silvereyesociety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXWiouIRi4
How to podcast aka resources https://www.podcastgarage.org/toolbox

afternoon 13:00-14:30

Speculative fiction exercise - Inventing new instruments

in the pad of the day https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/de_fine_art.01
(15 minutes) Brainstorm the features of the instrument
Describe Your musical instrument invention from the kick off! If you didn't, imagine/invent a new one now!
[You can write 1 word or more. Up to 1 sentence per feature.] Look (What does it look like?)
Feel (What materials is it made of?)
Functionalities (What is its function(s)?) Usability (How can they be used? By whom? In which moments?)

(20 minutes)
Combine the features to create new instruments
Check the different features of the instruments from the previous step. Choose 4 you like, 1 for each category, check who is listed after you in the list of names and give to that person your 4 selected features: eg. artemis > yoana: copy/paste the 4 features (Look, Feel, Functionalities, Usability)

(40 minutes)
Collective storytelling around the instruments

(20 minutes) Break out into 4 groups. Each group decides and pics an instrument that was invented above, to write a short story about it, using cut-up methodology. Participants of each group need first to decide on the following quickly:
- Write the name of the instrument and its 4 features - Look, Feel, Functionalities, Usability.
- Brainstorm 1, 2, 3 characters that will be included in the story, who are they (individual, collective, human, nature,machine? what are their name, age, gender, location? are they creating, mantaining, testing, using the instrument?). Write the info about those 1, 2 or 3 characters.

- Depending of how many people in the group write those numbers below in the pad,
1.
2.
3.
4.
etc
- Decide who is 1, 2, 3, 4 etc in your group.

Numer 1 knows she will start the story
Number 2 will prolongate it...
The last number that will close it.

(10 minutes) Everybody starts simultaneously the automatic writing of a story around that invented instrument including the context/characters that have been decided whithin the group.
(10 minutes) When the 10 mins are over, copy your extract of text next your number. The story is ready to be read with all the group.

(15 minutes)
Read the 4 stories to each other

References

Introduction: Radical Feminist Storytelling and Speculative Fiction: Creating new worlds by re-

imagining hacking. Sophie Toupin, Spideralex https://adanewmedia.org/category/issue-no-13/

Black Quantum Futurism (everything they do):

https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/

Possible Bodies inventory, a collaborative research on the very concrete and at the same time

complex and fictional entities that "bodies" are, asking what matter-cultural conditions of possibility
render them volumetrically present, https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/

Documentation Atelier Ondes Sauvages, Futurotopies Féministes – Bandits Mages par Spideralex + rAAdio cAArgo

https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/specfic/2019/05/29/documentation-atelier-ondes-sauvages- futurotopies-feministes-bandits-mages-par-spideralex-raadio-caargo/
Fanzine: https://archive.org/details/OndesSauvagesFanzine001Converted/page/n3/mode/2up
Audios: https://archive.org/details/futurotopiesfeministes_201901/Impro_audios_texte_jour4.mp3
Texts: https://archive.org/details/FuturotopiesFeministes_20190111/page/n1/mode/2up

Gathering 02 September - kick off

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