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SWR 2: Southwestgerman Radio
RADIOART ONLINE: AUDIOHYPERSPACE Since December 1998 the SWR-Webpage "AudioHyperspace" by Sabine Breitsameter, guides you through the jungle of internet sound data and explores the development of sonic net art. It offers a monthly selection of what seem to be the most interesting audio websites and presents an annotated collection of links to audio and audio art on the web. Additionally "AudioHyperspace" includes selected links to projects of acoustic interactivity, artistic audio online projects, experimental radio on demand, audio archives, radio stations live online, introductions and background info. Beyond that, Sabine creates radiophonic essays for the SWR 2 on-air-program to intensify the discourse on the topic ("AudioHyperspace" /Dec. 1998, "HörSpiel als Interaktion"/Dec. 14 2000, 9 p.m.). They are available as live streams as well as on demand. AUDIOHYPERSPACE http://www.swr2.de/hoerspiel/audiohyperspace/ Sabine Breitsameter What is AudioHyperspace? The Internet offers to the media as well as to the media artist a new electroacoustic space, abundant with audible live streams, audio on-demand, sound files and increasingly complex interactive audio processing. These new possibilities may open up surprisingly new audio "visions" and provoke new strategies of perception. Audio on the Internet has made the boundaries flexible between art, communication and play. This gives us a preview of new radio concepts and of new radio art designs. (Sabine Breitsameter) Here are AudioHyperspace's monthly Audiolinks from January to October 2000 January 2000 WWW.ELECTRICA.DE http://electrica.leonid.de/cgi-bin/index.cgi Interactive Internet sound installation, which is not only acoustically atmospheric and multi-optional, but also encourages the playful use the mouse. By this, the user is able to explore on his own the installation's interactive instruments. Its sizzling electrical sounds underline the website's name. If you click for example on "electrophone", you can activate samples, which create rhythmic mixes. If you log in to "resonator" you can change pitches and volumes. - Using the installation and its instruments is a sonic adventure, as the user will rarely be able to predict the result he/she will be getting, due to the complexity of the installation's options. CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' RADIOPHONIC WORKS http://cec.concordia.ca/Radio/Long/Long.html This website gives an impression about the electroacoustic and radiophonic artists' scene in Canada. It makes accessible audio works of important artists like Darren Copeland, Dan Lander, Hildegard Westerkamp, Francis Dhomont as well as Thomas Gerwin (Karl Sczuka-Förderpreis of Southwestgerman Radio 1999). Extensive essay and text collection concerning aesthetic and sociological questions on electroacoustic music and audio art. February 2000 INTERACTIVE MINIMALISM http://homestudio.thing.net/midiphonics.index40.html French composer and media artist Jerome Joy created for his website three Internet installations ("pianospirale", "objet", "cycle"), which give to the user the possibility to mix minimalistic audio structures. The user can choose deliberately, when to start each of the sample she/he wants to mix, and can thus explore which textures, layers, microstructures can be created by this. INTERACTIVE DJ SPOOKY http://www.absolutvodka.com/map/spooky/sp_index.asp Everybody can touch now the famous spirit of the spooky DJ! A graphic interface gives the user access to some of his samples, with which users can assemble own re-mixes. For those who want to touch other DJ's audio minds: Re-create the creations of his colleagues, for example of the DJ-duo Coldcut (www.absolutvodka.com/map/coldcut/cl_index.asp). March 2000 SOUNDTRACK FROM THE WEB http://homestudio.thing.net/interludes/index40.html A Webcam transmits live from a Highway in Phoenix/Arizona. This visual live feed is accompanied by sounds on servers from all over the world, which are selected and streamed randomly. WORLDTUNE http://www.worldtune.com/2000/ A sonic sculpture, which transports distant sounds from all over the world to public loudspeakers in Finland, Portugal and Germany. - The loundspeaker's sound, can be selected by the Internet user via mouse click from a huge archive, which stores sounds from more than eighteen places in Europe, America and Asia. Too, every user can upload his or her own material in "au"- or mp3-data format. Click on "edit" and "broadcast" and read how the uploading works. April 2000 MESSAGES FROM THE BEYOND: CHANNELUNTITLED http://turbulence.org/works/channelUntitled/index.html The topic of Diane Bertolo's text-sound-webinstallation are mysterious voices, signals and noises of unknown origin. After the introduction of the morse alphabet in 1837 some users reported having received signals from the realm of the dead via this information channel. Which means: the advent of electronic media gave a big push to real or imaginary communicaton with the Beyond. This is not surprising as telephone, radio and computer have put us, from its beginnings, in contact with de-materialized entities. - Log into ChannelUntitled and find yourself in dialogue with non-visible, disembodied, un-dead, and media technology systems running berserk. US-american web artist Diane Bertolo offers in this work a mediaphilosophical image, which emphasizes the conscious and unconscious mystifications which inhabit acoustic telecommunication. - ChannelUntitled can be found on Turbulence, a virtual gallery of webart, curated by Helen Thorington, New York. MESSAGES TO THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/sounds.html 1990 US space probe Voyager left our solar system and will arrive at the next one after 40,000 years. A small cold coated copper disc stores the sound data which are, according to NASA experts, representing planet earth. If you want to know, which acoustic impression extra terrestrials will get from our blue planet, you'll find on this website not only a selection of sounds from nature, everyday life and technology, but, too, an archive of more than 30 languages as well as a music data base which intends to inform the little green beings on humanity's cultural achievments. May 2000 HISTORY OF ACOUSTIC MEDIA ART http://kunstradio.at/REPLAY/index.htm RE-PLAY - an exhibition in Vienna shows the development of international media art in Austria during the seventies. An important part of this exhibition deals with acoustic media art. A selection of important audio art (http://kunstradio.at/REPLAY/SOUNDWORKS/index.html) is available online as well as concepts and documentations of sound installations. (http://kunstradio.at/REPLAY/INSTALLATIONS/index.html) An excellent introduction into acoustic media art, written by the curator Heidi Grundmann, can be found if you click on the initial page and scroll down to the link "Catalogue Text". ) HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE'S SOUND http://www.6villages.tpu.fi/ The soundscapes of six European villages are explored by students and researchers of Turku University/Finland. This website makes accessible the acoustic environment of villages in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Scotland and Finland. Daily uploads of fresh infos and sound data give impression on the progress of the research process. Juni 2000 MEMORY http://www.haus-der-musik-wien.at/english/soundmemory/soundmemory.asp Sonic version of the popular German child game: Via mouseclick you can search and find pairs of sound. The user can define sound characteristics, samples and level of difficulty in advance. BILLIARD http://www.haus-der-musik-wien.at/english/rhythmbouncer/rhythmbouncer.asp An initial mouse click can release up to twenty balls onto a blackboard. Every time when one of the coloured balls hits the margin, a rhythmic sample is triggered. The different colours of the balls are related to special sounds. If you select skillfully colours, tempo variations and the angle of bouncing you are able to create compositions, which can be quite worth listening. Don't feel put off by the unclear guidance how to use this website.Try it without restraint and gain artistic perfection. Especially attractive: You can create joint compositions with other users, which have also logged into the game. Juli 2000 THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD AS PIANO KEYBOARD http://fidinet01.fidentia.at/english/index_en.htm Playing piano on and with the web. - The Internet - an inexhaustible pool of sonic instruments: this might be the central auditory "vision" of composers and sound artists concerning the new digital networks. What about finding from one's own computer terminal the whole range of conventional and modern instruments on the web and being able to play each of them? The "House of Music" in Vienna provides a Web Piano, which gives its users the opportunity to interact individually with the instrument. By this, the user can compose works for piano, play and store them on the server. THE PC AS RADIO STATION http://pages.nyu.edu/%7Edp51/toolkit/av.html A webcast-training for media activists. - Well explained guidance for Audio-Online-Streaming by popular softwares (RealPlayer, MP 3 etc.). Mentions hard- and software prerequisites, offers links to downloads, user directions for set ups and configurations. Those, who prefer conventional on air broadcasting can learn from http://www.irational.org/sic/radio/ whose comparatively enormous technical effort it takes to become a radio pirate. August 2000 AURAL IMAGES http://netopera.cjb.net Images of war, flight and destruction and repetitive vocals, music and sounds had been combined to a net opera. Mouse clicks navigate the user through a series of highly atmospheric multimedia scenes, created by Concha Jerez and José Iges. VISUAL SOUNDS http://www.franklinfurnace.org/tfotp00/polli/index.htm Audio Artist Andrea Polli presents in her "Rapid Fire"-Installation the "Intuitive Ocusonic-Interface: an Interface between human being and digital network, where instinctive or willingly directed eye movements trigger and structure sounds, graphics and texts. - On this website you find her New Yorker Performance documented which took place on July 28 in "The Kitchen". In acoustic and visual simulation the Internet user can find out interactively how this intuitive interface works. CONGRATULATIONS! The Internet sound installation Electrica (http://electrica.leonid.de/cgi-bin/index.cgi) received an "Honourable Mention" from the Prix Ars Electronica 2000! (http://prixars.orf.at/press/eng/net.htm) September 2000 CONSTELLATIONS http://www.sensorband.com/atau/constellations/ by Japanese composer Atau Tanaka is a network audio installation connecting the physical space of a gallery to the virtual space of the Internet. But for those who have not been able to attend Tanaka's installation in real space there is an already impressive online demo version for downloading... http://www.sensorband.com/atau/constellations/program.html available. It offers the users to navigate in an onscreen universe of planets, evoking multiple simultaneous audio streams (MP3). In selecting planets users can create their own mixes. The planetary system is the visual interface to a library of soundfiles existing on servers throughout the Internet. Each planet represents a contribution from a different composer. Artists can suggest their MP3-soundfiles to Atau Tanaka to become part of the installation http://www.sensorband.com/atau/constellations/contributors.html DIALTONE http://dial.tone.hu/archive.html An audio installation by young Hungarian artist Tamas Szakal which connects the real space of an exhibition venue with telephone and Internet. It's a setting in which users can actively participate: By telephone they can upload any kind of sound sample to three answering machines, connected to an audio mixer. Visitors at the venue do live mixing, phone-in participants can select sounds played by the answering machines or erase them by using the dial codes published on the website when the installation is in operation. The acoustic results are projected back into physical space at the gallery venue and into virtual space as web livestream. Szakal's website explains the concept of „Dialtone" and documents a broad range of audio samples which had been created by participating audience. October 2000 NET.CONGESTION http://www.net-congestion.net INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF STREAMING MEDIA Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000 „net.congestion" is a festival devoted to new forms of broadcasting and live programming that have emerged around the Internet. The festival presents and explores the use of streaming media as an artistic medium and underlines how independent webcasting can challenge aesthetically and politically established media. „net.congestion" emphasizes especially workshops which provide the participants with practical abilities for doing their own webcast. Among a broad range of media activists from all over the world reknown artists like for example re-lab.net team (Riga), times-up (Linz), radioqualia (Australia), Radio90 (Banff), Kunstradio (Vienna), etc. will present their projects. For those who cannot attend „net.congestion" and its performances, concerts, presentations, debates and workshops in Amsterdam's real space: a major part of the festival will be available on the Internet. It even welcomes remote participation in live events, for re-mixing, co-creation and discussion. The corporate world discusses similar issues at: STREAMING MEDIA EUROPE 2000 http://www.streamingmedia.com/europe/index.asp London, October 10-12, 2000 During this convention commercially oriented Internet content and service providers, webcasters and broadcasters want to harness the possibilities of streaming video, audio and multimedia on the Web and enhance economically their respective business strategies. Key note speakers include Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks, and Werner Lauff, from the „Bertelsmann Broadband Group". |