User:Chrissy/T2 Assessment
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Radio
Broadcast 2: Soundmapping Rotterdam:
Since we worked a lot with sound in the beginning of the first Trimester, we decided on recording sounds in the city, because everybody just moved freshly to Rotterdam. We split into groups; one group interviewed people on the street, and we walked over the market in Rotterdam to record interesting and typical sounds. On another day I walked quite a long way through Rotterdam (including walking into an insane rainstorm) and recorded everything I could find. Besides the city recordings, we used the recordings of the Jam Session we did with Joseph as well. We also asked our class for experiences of Rotterdam, posting them in the radio worm chat and reading them live during the show. My role was at this show the interface, so I mixed the volume & created a drew timeline during the show, which marks field recordings, interviews, the read memories, experiences & the recording of the Jam Session, to get during the live show & afterward an overview of what we played.
Broadcast 3: Underwater Exploration:
Though an inspiration of the previous Broadcast, where I wrote in the chat, "I really love water, and there is water everywhere. Even in places where I thought there couldn’t be any water, there is." We decided as a group on the main topic of water, the journey in three phases from getting towards the water, swimming and diving. We collected sounds of water, and my part was collecting music with the topic of water/rain/sea/rain with YouTube Converter and cutting it into snippets to have a 5:51 min audio with different songs, which I also ordered in our three phases. [insert audio] We also asked our class to answer the prompts before the show, "1. What is experimental?" And "What is a protocol?" which we played in real-time in the show.
Broadcast 7: Improvisation:
Since the 7th show took place right more the Protocols for Collective Performance Event, we decided on an improvised show, which we “planned” in 10 minutes. The idea was to bring the meeting of the planning into the actual show, to show a kind of “behind the scenes” to the listeners. We brought different things, like vinyls, to talk about if we should play them in the next show or not. Since we had after six shows a better understanding and experience of making radio, we felt very comfortable just to talk live in the show, without a lot of preparation. This acknowledgement felt incredible good. In advance, I read the text “Radio as Radical Education by Grégoire Rousseau & Nora Sternfeld in 2024.” We talked in the beginning of it, and I explained the parts I found interesting in the text—like a podcast.
Broadcast 8: Lost Music:
In this show—we already prepared weeks ahead—we decided on the topic Lost Music, the storage, the archiving & “owning” of music. For me personally, the production and radio itself were extremely remembering and nostalgic of my using of CDs as a kid and teenager. The illegal downloading of music files, sampling them together to a mix, burning them on CDs, designing the Cover and the CD itself, and playing it infinitely on my CD player. Also showing my friends the new music I found and collected. It remembered me again, how it was to listen to a CD all day long all over again & the whole process behind it instead of streaming music on Spotify with the urge of finding new music every day again & often not able to play it without internet connection.
For the show, we asked our class for their music between 13 and 16 in our categories "Shame, Guilt, Sorrow and Love." Combining these specific feelings with discovering old music gave me a deeper understanding and diving into my past self, then just searching into old music. We got a lot of feedback on how amazing it was to dig into these old and forgotten songs and get remembered again what feelings & memories they provoked.
We planned to produce a little gift for the class and let them physically owning our collected songs, separated in each category. For the CD inlet, I designed the poster [POSTER] combined with drawings, pictures and icons by Kiara, Charlie and Tessa of their teenage years. We printed it in the Print Station with the new Riso printer. Additionally, we designed and printed a sticker sheet to stick the elements on the CD boxes and CDs themselves, too. The burning and designing of the CDs we did together while listening to our created mixtapes and sinking into memories.
Kiara designed and coded the website for our show, which works as a music player for all the songs we collected. For this website, I made a 3D model of our CD in Blender, which is animated and rotates. [3d model]