podcast

Title: Audio Derive

URL: http://www.golden-butterfly.com/images/gif/sio/audiourbanderive.mp3

Sequence:

Daniel Pelt

Robin Dennis

Jason Mc Carty

Robert Harrington

Diane Vadino

Lior Bar

Lou Pierce

Matt Wood

general project description

The class will create an audio derive.

individual episode descriptions

Lior Bar:

I will try to lead the listener through their physical environment while I am making a journey in a virtual one (on the internet): listening to sounds, reading texts, looking at images, chatting to people, logging into and out of different environments, etc. I will try to create kind of a vague experience in which the listener examines their environment (and interact with it?) through mine, and gradually understands that they are looking at their environment through virtual glasses. I will try to meet the virtual chats with the street conversations, the banner ads with street billboards, web navigation (free vs. members-only) with moving in and out urban spaces (public vs. private), and so forth…

Robin Dennis:

My project basically has you create, interact, and observe the ephemeral events that take place in the city. Based on following tasks, it will give you a new idea of how to look and interact with the area around you.

Robert Harrington:

I've been all over the place with this thing. I finally settled on a soundtrack to the city. Certain music enhances your perception of certain situations or contradicts it. Hopefully while listening to it you'll get a musical score to your walk.

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I'm going to conduct a tour of urban area responding spontaneously to my heard environment and graft new associations over the ones i'm seeing, additionally one key aspect of the tour will be a use of the cell phone as a remote control to things you see on the tour. Using the phones onboard video "eye" to interact with signs as links in your phone. So essentially---- through the phone one is connected to every inch of reality as if it was the internet. ---- camera-phone as browser to an urban environment imbedded with internet links, menus, maps, media, and some futuristic internet graffiti artists and pranksters who embed their own activatable cues to their own media. THe video cyclops in a phone reads all these embedded links in the urban environment.

Karly Mossberg:

(will be submitting late)

Daniel Pelt:

I am going to make you uncomfortable.

Lou Pierce: Agent π.

I will create a simple, second-person narrative in which the listener is a 'secret agent' recieving instructions from headquarters to take down an enemy stronghold. No exposition will be given, only instructions. A voice that only the listener can hear watches over the listener from an unknown location and gives instructions based on information the listener is not partial to.

I hope to leave the listener with an aftertaste of paranoia. More importantly, when the podcast is over, the listener should have an appreciation for the freedom of not working within boundaries imposed upon him or her by the will of 'the man,' whether 'the man' is inside the listener's own head or a is cultural construct.

Matt Wood:

“Dreamscape” Podcast- makes a person imagine they are in a fictional environment relating to the area in which they already live in. In this case San Francisco. This story will not only assume the role of a narrative, but also an interaction between human and environmental contact. The interaction between information, people, surroundings, and technology is an interesting one, especially when any one or more of these factors is utterly changed or transformed. By creating a virtual world or a “dreamscape” I hope to engulf the listener’s mind with an epic tale of a futuristic San Francisco, and what it might visualize or expose to them and in them. Nonetheless, to be brief, with my style of “storytelling” I’m sure some sense of inexplicable chaos will be exhorted into the listener, which perhaps makes this entertainment exciting and fun.

Diane Vadino:

What I would like to do is to provide a five-minute physical routine based on some postures from ashtanga yoga. I am very interested in the idea that any space can be transformed by doing yoga - I've done it in places like an airport terminal at JFK and in changing rooms at my favorite store in London (it has very big changing rooms) and it is fascinating to me how it completely transforms the space, so that it becomes *your* space, and also that the physical reactions that are part and parcel of yoga — the slowing of the breath, the raising of the body's temperature, etc. — can similarly alter the way you view your environment. It would not follow a traditional sun salutation but would incorporate moves from it. The interesting thing, to me, anyway, is the specifically yogic way (a) a disembodied voice can literally twist you up into contortions you might not have thought possible and (b) any space can be transformed into a sacred one, at least to a yogi. It should create an interesting atmosphere of trust (or mistrust) between the "instructor" and the participant — sometimes it can be quite surprising to discover exactly how you've positioned your body, if you're unaware of where the instructor is going. I would be interested in, and I would wager that, anyone who does the five minutes of yoga will leave the space different, altered, changed, etc., from how they entered it.

The yoga directions themselves would not be the only information \\ substance of the monologue — it would also include some commentary.