Drama Hour next week and sound from Thursday

I will try to edit the talk with Simon Egan into sensible chunks for the Drama Hour this Thursday (9-10 Phonic FM 106.8 in Exeter) but it may take two weeks to cover it.)

Missing facts

The studios at Exeter Castle were called Artspace. There is more info on the Phonic website including podcasts of interviews with the artists.

The genre of music Simon was trying to find on his phone is called Vaporwave. So far I have listened to some that could be in a relax space but there is also some that might be suitable for dance.

Thing is, not only is the story teller on holiday but also JD for next week as well. When he gets back the sound levels will be more sensible but also he may query my taking up a whole hour with conversation. So I will try to balance things out with some music.

Also I will ask JD about the 80s and what he makes of Vaporwave. Seamless progress into the Wild Show.

So far some quick versions

YouTube video from 5 years ago updated with better sound from Thursday

Then three versions of the sound, depending on how long you have to listen

The full version

Simon Egan talks to will789gb during the drama hour while the storyteller is away over the summer. Previous talks about five years ago had sound issues as they were at a party launching Transitions art show and during Beer At The Castle. Sound here is ok. Includes discussion on art, copyright, animated Exeter and situations around 80s music.

A shorter version starting with copyright

Leaves out the recap on the Transition show and Beer At The Castle. Includes discussion of copyright, Animated Exeter, images on buildings and beer festivals in general

Shortest version, starts with 80s music

The shortest edit as you may not have time for a full hour. Simon agrees to help with an 80s disco / gallery event starting from sound. Images later, suggestions please. There will be a better edit later but I am out of time so am just going for three choices of length. the last ten minutes is about the next beer festival so can be skipped if not of interest.

Smartphone journalism and disruption

More print culture in the Observer. Peter Preston is upset that Tony Hall from the BBC has said-

"In the age of the smartphone, we have entered the age of smart news, of handheld … news that is fully internet-enabled and responsive … in which everyone has a hand on the microphone, ie not just broadcast, transmitted or distributed, but shared, exchanged, investigated and explained as much by the audience as the author …. news that puts the world, with all this implies, in the palm of your hand."

I can't really make out what the problem is. Maybe newspapers already have a plan of how to relate to this and the BBC should just let them get on with it. Or maybe nobody would realise that journalism is changing if the BBC did not report it.

Meanwhile John Naughton argues that there is not much evidence for "disruption" so best to move on. The Guardian has enough cash to cover the losses for a while in any case. So no need to worry.

But I still think at some point the OhmyNews model is worth another look. I may stop using the term "Citizen Journalism" and just explore what smartphone journalism could actually mean. The Guardian is offering courses on "citizen journalism" which seems to mean how to find facts from social media and behave as closely as possible to the model of how journalism was done previously. Ideas like how to shere stuff, how to edit through offering training, soforth not really there. I'm not going to pay for a course just to check this. Only a blog you know.

Wonderful Time in Earls Court

This is from yesterday, doing an edit on the talk with Simon Egan and looking at the Guardian Review. Print culture continues and I could not make out what Malorie Blackman meant by "reading". There is not enough of it but is reading from a screen included? Previously she had some doubts about the e-reader devices but confessed she once read a comic behind a newspaper just to confuse the teachers.

Anyway she is at YALC this weekend and I realised Earl's Court may be another location for my play or whatever based on Having A Wonderfiul Time. This is going to start with the basement in the Phonenix here in Exeter but could work with the higher floor at Earl's Court or the Platinum Suite at Excel should Earl's Court vanish one day.

You need at least three characters, A doorkeeper at the top of the stairs to the Phoenix basement or the start of the escalators. Two punters, one enters the space for creative culture, one stays behind and notices that nobody is coming back. Actually there is an escape route but also a non disclosure agreement so nobody realise this until the situation changes depending on how many of the audience follow punter #1 and what they do about the non disclosure.

Video shuffle ahead of beer festival chat show

Summer lull is a good time to reflect. I am working through existing video on YouTube and getting ready for the beer festival at Seale Hayne  in mid August. I started a sort of chat show for youTube about five years ago around the Beer At The Castle event organised by Exeter and East Devon CAMRA. This was how I got into the Phonic studio, starting as a guest.

The storyteller is away at festivals so I am covering an extra hour for the next four weeks. I may have some guests to continue some of the questions I have been asking or seem to crop up. Mostly it revolves around copyright or restrictions on how something can be publicised or reported. Trying out local video requires some examples. So far it turns out to be mostly ok to work with sound or video for music performance. However visual art is still very different. This includes animation.

So I have some video and photos that have not yet been edited. Not sure what to do with them. The projections onto buildings during Animated Exeter have been sort of Creative Commons but maybe not, often vague about the soundtrack. I'm not going into details but maybe this would be possible. Depends who wants to talk about it. In general I think there is a gap for an event that was explicit about Creative Commons and invited derivative work or social media, whatever you want to call it.

Similar with the performance for this city's centre. Is theatre unique experience at the time? Could the video in the RAMM have been just as relevant on YouTube? soforth.

Meanwhile still talking to JD about using an 80s soundtrack and looking for visuals. We have discussed Laura Kikauka's take on irritainment a few times. The failure celebrated at Spacex was a failure of public taste. It could have been a set for a chat show. so maybe we just start with the soundtrack and look for graphics.

I think there will be a guest tomorrow about 9 but more on this later. Phonic FM is online at www.phonic.fm or 106.8 in Exeter area.

Meanwhile here is an edit of an interview with Jo Gedrych from just before the previous beer festival chat show. I think he still would like a local cable channel and the limits of Youtube are still there. He may send us a new clip or soundbite but not sure where he is

This was edited from previous with the Remix button on YouTube. To enable this you have to choose Creative Commons . This one is a bit longer but some issues still much the same.

Radio as Communication, Design Science , post MOOC

This blog started looking for links between print, quality and learning. It has moved in other directions as well that may make more sense if I just concentrate on them for a while.

So communication rather than print. The LCC has a point but more on this later. Quality seems a bit stuck till the new ISO 9000 is out, there is speculation but not much energy. I think the Plan-Do-Study-Act learning cycle can be looked at as part of design just as readily.  The MOOC is still not accepted everywhere but some issues have gone past it. I am finding it easier to talk about the content as part of social media in general. Learning is not a mystery to start with.

Will try this out tomorrow around the Wild Show, Phonic FM 10 -12. Maybe not on air, more likely during coffee soon after.