Why people would care about this vocal presence/representation in public spaces? Because they want to talk about how they imagine the world around them, what experiences they have.
..Constructing understanding your own tools (streaming devices and apps) and access to the medium that amplifies the voice (privitization of medium, patriarchal structure)
hackthon: where you ask the participants to explore a subject, through the development of a prototypes, from give a starting point.
workshop: where you bring in a certain technology/prototype/... and ask others to develop or explore it. More focused on a approach and see what that approach can lead to
(book) sprints: where the group writes collaboratively a manual / research text / book / and produces a wbesite/pdf/...
test session: where a given procedure/methods is tested on the participants and at the end feedback is given
- Mohammed Malique. Bodega hni. Mijn stad is Mijn hart https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2018-2019/mijn-stad-is-mijn-hart.html
"media activists who are increasingly becoming cosmopolitan and detached from local communities and struggles." leeszaal
Media theorist Geert Lovink is apparently missing out on what is happening here amongst other places when he writes: "The Social Media Question: Where are the Alternatives?" poking at a broadly defined "geek class" and applying the term elitism to it. I have never met him and i believe he's well known.
Future: leaving the social sphere and the self, after the practice has been clear. Thinking of the condition of the medium, the device, the software, the technology/ the landscape of it, the low-tech, the abandonence. Metaphor of the human loneliness. Lonileness, how I experience it, and the connection with an object. The idea of it. Detachement of myself and the responsibilty of it.
## Streaming voices of West Rotterdam !!!I KEEP THAT ONE!!! Subterranean streams {#streaming_voices_of_west_rotterdam_i_keep_that_one_subterranean_streams}
It is a social project.Sound is used as a way to reveal things about
private and public, suppression of voices in that area with a broader
concern on how the voices are amplified. It is about revealing hidden
aspects of this Dutch area that it is connected How stories underneath
are revealed Sound excavation Where the private/public and gender
separation is present in that specific example. What modes of address
are present. How they are mediated. Is there a collective voice?
Leeszaal is my meeting point I visit the area, recording characteristic
sounds from it, walk and then visit Leeszaal as a meeting point of these
- Carson, A. (1996) ‘The Gender of Sound’, in Glass, Irony and God. First Edition edition. New York: New Directions, pp. 119–142.
- Barad, K. (2018) ‘Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness: re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable’, new formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 92(1), pp. 56–86.
- Beard, M. (2017) Women & Power: A Manifesto. 1 edition. New York: Liveright.
- 667: Wartime Radio (2019) This American Life. Available at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/667/transcript (Accessed: 5 February 2019).