Re: (Xchange) THIS IS A RANT.
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Re: (Xchange) THIS IS A RANT. |
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"Matthew Smith" <matt@xxxxxxxxx> |
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Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:33:02 +0200 (MET DST) |
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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, august wrote:
> this is starting to get sickening.
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> if you want to make radio...than do it!
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> all this talk about making radio without actually doing it reminds me of a
> radio station with legal access to a transmiter...but is too afraid to turn
> the fucker on!! just fucking do it.
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> the idea was never really to make pretty broadcasts. sometimes that comes
> as a side-effect, but is still relatively unimportant. if you just want to
> make "pieces" to store as a contained work of real audio on-demand, than
> fine. If you think that is "where its at"...then your dead wrong. sure it
> is a somewhat important aspect....but not the only one.
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> the idea of some sort of interconnected sculptural atmosphere of radio is
> what we all seem to be after and dates back to the early 20th century,
> dude - before mcluhan and medium-is-the-mesage stuff . as far as I know,
> the idea has never been realized, except in specific short-term events.
i dont give a fuck (ok, im a male, i confess) for a "sculptural
athmosphere". all im trying to say is that why use the
radio-broadcast/studio metaphor for something that worx alot better in
other ways.
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> you can have your machines and your automated content served up on a
> platter like hitradio if you want.....but, first comes the connections and
> the overlapping of radio, net and whateverelse...then comes the atmosphere
> and hybrid/mutated forms. the sculptural aspect of net.radio lies in the
> connections not in the content.
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bullshit. u didnt get it. its not about hitradio, its about making
material accessible for further use. if you want to use hitradio thats
fine, and if you want to make collaborative live stuff thats fine to. but
your completely right about the connections. the problem is that most of
the time these connections only exist for a brief moment of collaboration,
but after the "show" they are gone. thats what im trying to address.
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> the idea is rather simple (although multifaceted)...if everyone is casting
> simultaniously (whether live or recorded or automated material) ...then why
> not just connect them all together and form this atmosphere you are talking
> about ...and the world would be a happier place....well maybe not, but
> the radio scheme would sure as hell be a lot more interesting.
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clapclapclap
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> this is nothing new... no single person of the net.radio theorists invented
> it.....but who the fuck is gonna take the first step. it seems to me that
> everybodys concept and theory of radio/net.radio is so fucking inflexable
> that noone can get their shit together and just make some noise!!!!
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> Im ready to hear some PRACTICAL suggestions boyz and girlz.
> if you arent willing to try and actuallize the idea (which implies some
> sort of collaboration)...then let it die or keep on reformulating it into
> infinity without ever doing anything.
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try this: get the episodes 2-4 of the "Fundamental Radioshow" online. Then
stop wasting bandwidth with a lameass webcam - cuz when i try to pick up
your stream and the webcam is on, i get 0thing. After that try making it
interesting, so other people would be inclined to join your artschool ass
in some weirdelic "sculptural/hybrid/mutated" form on-line,on-air
on-watever
matt
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