[LINKS]
TRAINING AND INFORMATION ABOUT STREAMING
Irational net.radio guide
Irational net.radio guide :: DIY guide to net.radio.
Codec Central
Terran Interactives wonderful site about streaming using the major protocols. Includes comparisons and descriptions of the major commercial architectures.
Icanstream
Also from Terran - dedicated to fostering online knowledge sharing about streaming.
Ogg Vorbis
Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (AAC and TwinVQ), and PAC.
Project Mayo
Project Mayo is the heir to DivX. Their members include the creators of DivX, and apparently they are using that talent to solve the problems standing between today's Internet and where broadband video ought to be.
Streaming Media World
Founded by Internet.com, this site focuses on training and online tutorials about audio and video streaming, and some product reviews. Largely focused on Real-streaming.
StreamingMedia.com
A very 'industry focused' site with a large amount of information about current business issues and iniatives. They also have some good tutorials (http://www.streamingmedia.com/tutorials/) and a good glossary (http://www.streamingmedia.com/glossary).
MAILING LISTS
Xchange
The first and best mailing list about net.radio and associated issues.
Quicktime Streaming Server
Hosted by Apple.
Streaming Media Alliance
Enquiries to adam@xs4all.nl
Webstreamers in London
Enquiries to manu@sil.at
CONFERENCES, EVENTS, AND FESTIVALS (past and present)
CYNETart
The media art festival CYNETart plays an exemplary role as a mediator between technical and artistic culture. Questioning the special merits of artistic production and the contribution of art towards the formation of new ways in which to perceive of the world and the self is all the more interesting in an age where boundaries between media art and the application of this media technology have become blurred.
Electrofringe
Electrofringe is an Australian gathering of creative media producers for the purpose of sharing knowledge, and demonstrating projects. The festival is coordinated by octapod and will be held in Newcastle, Australia as part of the 'This is Not Art' collection of festivals, one of the largest annual meeting of young, creative, independent arts and media minds in the country. It consists of about 100 screenings, forums, workshops and demonstrations and over 120 performances in 5 days between October 5-9.
Electrolobby - Showroom for Digital Culture & Lifestyle
Electrolobby is a newly conceived area inside the Ars Electronica Festival featuring digital culture & lifestyle. It consists of an opening event (electrolobby IPO), a networked showroom, and a fully integrated Web-TV platform. Electrolobby is designed and curated by Paris-based new media production label TNC Network.
FCMM
The 29th Edition of the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media October 12 - 22, 2000
The Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media (FCMM) is dedicated to showcasing and nurturing cinema d'auteur and digital creations. Recognized for its bold, eclectic programming, the FCMM is a multidisciplinary happening that fuses mediums and genres.
Horizontal Radio
Curated by Gerfried Stocker and Heidi Grundmann, Horizontal Radio took place on 22 - 23 June, 1995 and involved over 20 radio stations world-wide, plus active participation from network nodes in: Athens, Belgrade, Berlin, Bologna, Bolzano, Budapest, Denver, Edmonton, Helsinki, Hobart, Innsbruck, Jerusalem, Linz, London, Madrid, Moskow, Naples, New York, Québec City, Rome, San Marino, Sarajevo, Sydney, Stockholm and Vancouver.
ISEA2000
The pre-programme of the10th International Symposium on Electronic Art is now available on-line. ISEA will be held for the first time ever in France, taking place in Paris this December.
Organised by ART3000, this multidisciplinary event will gather more than 150 expert presenters in the domain of culture, science and industry and the Symposium will attract 2000 participants from over 30 countries.
Lunchpause protest
Een politiek engageerde page! Het gaat over een van de weinige demonstraties/handtekeningen akties tegen de Nato-bombardementen in Servië, april vorig jaar. Het was een "lunchpause protest", dat twee weken duurde en 400 handtekeningen opleverde, die met een petitie naar het ministerie gingen.
Net.Radio Days
1998 conference on net.radio held in Berlin. Organised by Mikro and Convex TV. From June 6 to 10 Berlin hosted the NET RADIO DAYS '98, the first international meeting of experimental Internet-Radio projects, invited more than 20 international net.radio groups to discuss net.radio and streaming media.
net.radio Unlimited
Conference and net.radio event by and about initiatives and organisations which focus on supporting the artistic use of the internet. The conference was structured into four parts: the preperatory mailing list, working meetings at Backspace, the conference at the ICA, and the net.radio party at the ICA New Media Centre.
Next Five Minutes 3
The third Next 5 Minutes, an Amsterdam based conference on tactical communications culture, featuring do-it-yourself media, dissident art and electronic media activists from around the world, took place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March 1999.
ROOT: tricks, pranks and interventions
October 20th - 22nd, Hull UK A weekend of interventions, performance, actions, installations, debate, film and webcasting. An ecomony of means and immediacy of impact - from historical jokers to contemporary media hackers and marketeers.
StreamingMedia.com
StreamingMedia.com are the organisers of the industry and commercial conferences : "Streaming Media Europe", "Streaming Media Asia", "Streaming Media West".
The Acoustic Space (56 Hr Live)
At the Ars Electronica Festival 1998 (programmed under the theme: INFOWAR - information.macht.krieg), the Xchange audio network created an audio environment created for the entire Ars Electronica festival, using real-time net audio technologies (real audio), including an open broadcasting studio in the physical space, as well as the creation of a virtual sound environment in cyberspace, involving both on-site and remote participants.
X-00
An event (on/off line) "X-00" which took place 16-19 March 2000 in Lorient (France) :
The purpose of the device-event is to experiment, in an open context, the notion of "area directed by and through the Net", or, how a multi-media diffusion network can locally interact with the public and conversely ?
XU [Xchange Unlimited]
XU, Art+communication III was the 3rd International New Media Conference organised by E-LAB, Electronic Arts and Media Centre in Riga (and part of the Baltic Media Culture Festival). Xchange Unlimited focussed on the following topics: art servers; supporting of collaboration and networking among independent artists organisations in both within Latvia and world-wide; developing of an international self-supporting platform (the InterFund project); developing of a real audio servers network.
TEXTS
Josephine Bosma
Broadcasting to Narrowcasting
Waves in the Web
Interview with XLR
Interview with Pararadio
Interview with Re-Lab
Interview with TNC Network
Calling Nettime Radio
Ars Electronica catalogue text
convex tv & mikro lounge
Net.radio days introductory text
Eric Davis
Acoustic Cyberspace
Micz Flor
Stop Streaming And Listen
Frank Fremery
The Need For Public Backbones
Ulrich Gutmair
The Killer App
Honor Harger
shape-shifting: A review of Throw Down a Shape in Adelaide
Keeping The Faith: An Interview with RadioB92
Pitch shifting
Drew Hemment
Bring the Noise
Adam Hyde
Streaming Media Europe Conference Report
Net.radio days Report
Pitch shifting
Tetsuo Kogawa
Toward Polymorphous Radio
Minima Memoranda
Geert Lovink
Interview with Zina Kaye
An Early History of 90s Cyberculture
Nina Meilof
Streaming Networks
Toshiya Ueno
Network Art in Japan
Various Writers
Historical Comments On Sound
TEXT RESOURCES:
System X - Soundsite
Soundsite is managed by System X, a communications and cultural server in Sydney, Australia. One of the first cultural servers established in Australia, System X, run by artists / technicians Scot McPhee and Jason Gee, is a fascinating resource in its own right. Their sound theory pages are renown internationally for providing thoughtful and innovative insights into many different aspects of sound culture. Soundsite includes the online archives of sound culture journal, Contemporary Sound Arts (CSA). The links pages <http://www.sysx.org/soundsite/links.html> are regularly updatedand provide an excellent jumpstation into related resources.
Josephine Bosma
Josephine Bosma is a writer, criic and radio practitioner from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her seminal coverage of developments in sound and radio practices has provided documentation in the form of interviews, reviews and essays about many important episodes in the recent history of sound practice.
Switch - Sound Edition
SWITCH is a cultural journal investigating many different aspects of art and culture. In 1997 they produced a special edition looking at the theory of sound. The online archive of the edition of the journal includes interviews with musicians and sound producers, some exhaustive essays into the relationship between technology and sound, and discussion on the role of sound within society.
Tetsuo Kogawa
Tetsuo Kogawa, founder of the miniFM movement in Tokyo Japan, in the early - mid 1980s, continues to be one of the most eloquent commentators and practitioners of radio art. His website archives his writings, and includes practical information about establishing miniFm systems.
London Musicians Collective
The London Musicians Club website is a compelling resource for anyone interested in experimental music and sound art. The"texts" section has a collection of interesting writing, ranging from interviews with composers and musicians, to cut up texts about sound art.
pfe
pfe (permanent fatal error) is the project of New Zealand writer Caleb K., now based in Sydney, Australia. pfe is a series of meditations on sound performances and recordings of primarily New Zealand and Australian musicians and artists. It is published as an email digest approximately fortnightly, and archived online.
NET.RADIO AND RADIO ON THE NET
AudioHyperspace
The AudioHyperspace-Linklist guides you through the jungle of sound data and explores the development of sonic web art: it selects monthly the most interesting audio websites and presents an annotated collection of links to audio and audio art on the web.
Basic.ch
In their own words : "A mass of quality music accumulating over time, in an ad-free, bullshit-free environment. A project that has developed its own life and purpose, webcasting the best and freshest music every day to unsuspecting as well as more experienced listeners across the globe.". Based in Geneva.
BoomBox
BoomBox.net is an online soundsystem, a urban music platform based on streaming technology, whose goal is to promote live urban culture from hip hop to electronic. 95% of the content is made of live webcasts as we consider that the live format is a totally (even more today) different experience from the recorded/produced format.
Cafe9
International project between the European Cities of Culture of the year 2000, stream everyday until end October.
Contour.net
A netradio project from Leipzig, Germany, dedicated to experimental electronica, using the orang.orang.org engine for streaming and archiving. They hosted the 20 to 2000 project organized by raster/noton.
CCS
CCS currently hangs off the precipice of the rocky mountains in Banff, Canada. CCS is Denise Villeneuve and Coquisse Montreux who are also known as Susan Kennard et Yvanne Faught.
Channel Fly
Webcasts of unsigned bands from the UK.
ConvexTV
Now defunct Berlin based media group. Their comprehensive archive still exists online.
DialTone
A net audio installation from Tamas Szakal. DialTone exposes the physical and virtual space of the internet and attempting to open this hybrid space for sounds, noises, and words by using simple telecommunications instruments like telephones and answering phones.
DFM RTV INT
First ever webstation from The Netherlands, based in Amsterdam. Independent Music, Multi-Media Experiments, Sound Artists live! Weekly collaborations with Radio100 and others.
Fall Out
Fallout is an audio Mute magazine byproduct of Mute magazine.
Fal.sh
One of the most innovative electronica labels at the moment, just released a 3 1/2 inch cd with mp3s on it containing tracks by jodi, oval etc.
Farmers Manual
Austrian collaboration, largely specialising in clicks and glitchs in both design and online audio/video.
First Floor Radio
Free B92
Free B92 is the campaign for the return of Radio B92 to its rightful owners - the people who founded it, developed it. After two brief closures, Radio B92 was permanently taken over on April 2, 1999 by the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
FRO
Austrian radio based in Linz - 105.0MHz.
Fundamental Radio
On-Air since Septemper 1998. The fundamental radio show is weekly radio show - on air in lince at radio fro and streamed via mp3.at. Additional to that are fundamental specials - like sonnenuebergang. A characteristicum of the funda show is that it is on air in lince every Thursday - with the precision of a swiss clock - no matter if august & mexx are in lince or somewhere else then in lince.
Interface Pirate Radio
Online live DJs from fabulous pirate broadcasters based in the UK.
Klub Radio
Kunstradio
Art radio broadcast through the Austrian broadcaster ORF, 23:00 - 24:00 CET - every sunday. Kunstradio are also responsible for curating many net.radio and online audio projects.
Lada
RADIO LADA Web Art Radio (WAR!) - the non-stop user-definable art broadcast that brings you sounds & images from the Net. The content of the project is works for the internet & radio by artists - directors, actors, visual artists, philosophers, media artists, composers/sound artists, writers, radio makers.
l'audible
l'audible is a site dedicated to the development of audio culture in australasia... ..l'audible was set up in 1997 to use streaming technology to open these sounds to a broader audience, making the underground visible through a new medium.
Loudfactory
24/7 mp3 streaming station which program contains only free mod (soundtrecker) tracks from groups such as http://www.mono211.org
Micromusic.net
Dedicated to micro computer music, the sound of the sid chip, with radio station, remix contests and a growing groups of highly respected artists publishing partly under pseudonyme at this site.
Native Instruments
One of the developers of the tools which are used now organizing a series of events called "computer assisted singing after midnight" which combines experimental electronica and the club context.
Net.Radio workshops
Working drafts for net.radio workshops conducted by E-LAB electronic art and media center (intro, theory, practice, links ... - do it yourself radio ...)
Netsong
Netsong is the song of the web, as performed by a web search engine robot.
Tune in live to the Voice of the Web!
When provided a searchterm, the netsong bot will search for this term in a search engine, then choose a page from the search results and begin following links from that page. It will continue to follow links from the resulting pages indefinitely, backing up and rerouting if it hits a dead end. Happily gathering text from each page it visits, the netsong bot savors the unique lyricality and poignant narrative of the web and begins to sing it. Not content to merely surf the information superhighway, the netsong bot makes it music. Project by Amy Alexander and Peter Traub.
Observatine
Remote (internet) controlled plane.
Orange
First independant radio in Vienna - one of the only eight in Austria.
Ozone
net.radio OZOne LIVE every tuesday night 21.00
ParaRadio
ParaRadio is a RealAudio radio in G2 from Budapest, broadcasting every weekday, dealing with a new technology, new lifestyle, new culture, and all that goes with it.
Pleasurecraft
Australian based experimental net.caster/musician/video artist.
Radio01
ambitious project from cologne, working on a "nonlinear" net radio. based on an open archive and distributed editorial group covering electronic music / culture etc.
Radio 21
Prishtina based radio station.
Radio 90
Radio 90 is an audio collective currently based in Banff, Canada. They transmit live across the internet and on fm to the bow valley in the Rockies. Radio 90 also have an open access studio and an automated net.radio programming scheduler which allows for public programming contributions both locally and world wide.
Radio 100
Radio 100 (as such) arose in 1985 on the historical big meeting of the amsterdam free radio stations GOT (1982-1985), Rabotnik (1980-1985), WHS (1979-1985), and DFM. It is the biggest alternative, experimental and independent station in The Netherlands.
radioACTIVE
Croatian based radio network.
Radio Helsinki
Radio Internationale Stadt
Radio International City is an art and cultural project started in 1996. It offers a dynamical platform for the presentation of audio content for independant artists
Radio Jeleni
Free-form and autonomous, RJ net.casts in the evenings several days a week from Prague, CZ, with music and journalism, in Czech and English...
Radio Lab : Brussels2000
(2 hours live experimental radio every saturday & some archives, about 90 different collaborators from Belgium, France, Netherlands, Canada, USA, ...)
r a d i o q u a l i a
r a d i o q u a l i a is an online radio station aiming to open an electronic portal into the eccentricities of antipodean radio space.
Radiospace
The BACKSPACE radio project started in 1997 offering the only public access to volume streaming services in the UK. Today RADIOSPACE plays host to a broad sweep of addhock and irreverant output from across the spectrum and regularly assist in experiment and establishment.
Radio Student
Born in 1968, Radio Student (University of Ljubljana) was the first radio station to introduce the concept of DJ (authorial presentation of quality non-commercial music production) in the Slovene media environment.
Remix Radio
Users have the opportunity to select from a list of offered tracks and generate a playlist based on the most popular ratings. innovative model but possibly illegal under the digital millenium copyright act.
Rephuzent
One of the most sucessful mp3 streaming stations importing European electronic dance music into the US college circles. So far no ads to see.
Studio B11
Net- and FM-Radio on 106.6 in Weimar, Germany
TNC Network
TNC Network is a Paris-based label dedicated to the emerging digital culture and specializing in innovative network-based electronic entertainment.
WMF FM
berlin based club radio.
XLR
Experimental radio & internet broadcast established to investigate different ways of eXtending Live Radio.
NET.VIDEO.TV.CINEMA
AmbientTV
Hybrid film-tv-net projects.
Atari Noise
Mexican flash and quicktime experiments. For a detailed look at the Quicktime go directly here.
Belissima
Amsterdam based tv and net.tv production group.
Bewac
An audio experimental art work where you could let sound or messages from a normal phone which were streamed instantly on a audio portal website.
Borderland
Faces Places Sounds Texts
DivX
The independent mp4 codec
End of TV
Amsterdam group, Submarine, has produced amongst others a television documentary series and website Its the End of TV as we know it focusing on the future of media. The site contains streaming excerpts from the documentary.
Eusocial
The home of Nato.
De Hoeksteen
Regular live streamed program from Amsterdam featuring many interviews and personalities from around the world.
Fakeshop
New York based performance and media group.
Feito a Maos
A site dedicated to people and artists who wanted to work in groups. In this very first version they don't have an English version, but this is coming soon.
Greendogfilms
This is a great site for anyone interested in international shorts, animation, artistic pieces, documentaries . . .
Huge Harry
Pagina op de IAAA site over het work-in-progress 'Huge Harry' van Luuk Bouwman, met een link naar de complete stream van de film op het Ned. Internet Filmfestival.
King.dom.de
A Description of the Equator and Some ØtherLands.
©ore: Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Udo Noll, Felix Huber.
Little Movies
"Little Movies" is Lev Manovichs lyrical and theoretical project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, and a eulogy to its earliest formÐQuickTime. Beginning with the supposition that every new medium relies on the content of previous media, "Little Movies" features key moments in the history of cinema as its logical subject.
Low-Fi Video
Low-Fi Video is based in Serbia and their mission is the advancement of the aesthetics of non-pretencious cinema and the subversion of elitism on film.
Media.Live.Nu
Art/media Live Lab situated in DDS in Amsterdam.
Nick Crowe
UK based artist experimenting with network narratives.
Nervous Objects
Distributed Australian based arts group experimenting with process and many forms of live media.
Node.net
OVA (Open Video Archive)
The OVA project has been launched in 1999. The basis of OVA is ORANG {Open Radio Archive Network Group}. It offers a dynamical platform for the presentation of video content for independant artists and other creative people in the cultural environment.
Robocam
Australian innovators, Virtual Artists, developed this survelleince art piece in 1996. Robocam is an Adelaide live camera that you can control over the net.
Skot
Austrian based videoband.
Snowcrash
International hybrid media and streaming performance.
Superchannel
A Danish project initiated by the superflex group and a former programmer from real networks, working together with modern institute glasgow and realized several projects in public space, doing public net-tv projects, partially funded by the eu. the software, a streaming-scheduler-chat-discussionboard-content management system, is now also used for commercial customers.
The Bitscreen
Online collection of net film and video experiments.
TV-art.net
An independant webtv made for and by artists.
TVropa.com
TVRopa.com is a tv-station on the internet. A pioneer into narrowcasting within the categories entertainment, film, music, business, tech and personalised news for the young generation.
Vacuum
Vacuum started as a VHS compilation of publicly screened but otherwise underexposed film and vid from The Expolding Cinema and has grown to present a series of loose net screening featuring and presented by filmmakers and enthusiasts from the no budget and underthecounter culture screening scene.
Virtual Borders
A broadband documentary film -in-progress by Manu Luksch; with & about the Akha people of South East Asia; streaming media files of Akha radio programmes, music, interviews, film footage and soon the whole film...
Zadruga
Zadruga is a group of authors and activists in various audio-visual media unified by the stubborn wish to survive in the wastelands of Serbian cultural scene and by a sense of unique cultural mission in broader terms.
Zet_Mag
e-zine, netvideos, peal audio & videos about the current cultural situation in Bulgaria; web based projects and more...
CAMPAIGNS AND TACTICAL STREAMS
Engage!
Engage! Tactical Media is a political and cultural medialab. They develop innovative interactive media productions, stream video, consult progressive organizations on media strategies, and collaborate on technologically savvy cultural events.
Free B92
Website from the independent radio station B92 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Freespeech.org
Freespeech.org attempts to respond to the interests of that majority of the people whose voices are excluded or distorted in the corporate media.
HelpB92
HelpB92 was established to assist independent media during the NATO bombing of the Former Republic of Yugolslavia in 1999.
Hugecaster
This "publicly accessible media network" is based on the participation of individuals working in collaborative groups to produce, stream, serve, and broadcast live content for global distribution.
Indymedia
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, objective, and passionate tellings of truth.
Microradio.net
MicroRadio.Net provides LIVE streaming internet content for distribution by community, micro, and pirate radio broadcasters.
TOOLS
Astalavista
Contains links to crack shareware for educational use.
Cargoweb
Platform for live-exchange by Stefaan Decostere, Margit Tamas and others.
Cellular Pirate Radio / Radio90
Radio 90 is an audio collective currently based in Banff, Canada. They transmit live across the internet and on fm to the bow valley in the Rockies. Radio 90 also have an open access studio and an automated net.radio programming scheduler which allows for public programming contributions both locally and world wide.
Consume.net
Fed up with being held to ransom in the local loop Lets build a new network, one that is local, global, fast, expanding, public and user-constructed... 802.11 - 4U2 consume...."wave to each other"
EXPO 2000
Critical site by Stefaan Decostere a.o. for the Belgian Pavilion at the EXPO 2000.
Frequency Clock
The Frequency Clock is an interdisciplinary project by r a d i o q u a l i a which is rediscovering and enlarging the spectrum of radio art, and encouraging interactive and participatory models of cross-cultural and cross-artform exchange. The Frequency Clock comprises an installation, a web project, and a networked broadcast system.
KeyStroke
KeyStroke is a Multi-User Cross Media Synthesizer - a distributed application that allows players to generate, synthesize and process images, sounds and text within a shared realtime environment.
MuSE (Multiple Streaming Engine)
MuSE aims to be an application for the mixing, encoding, and streaming of sound. MuSE is a server engine that can simultaniously mix up to 8 seperate mp3 audio files from the hard drive where each channel of audio can be dynamically adjusted for speed and volume plus a soundcard line-in channel. The resulting stream can be played localy on the sound card and/or encoded as an mp3 data stream to an icecast server. The sourcecode of this application is released under the Gnu Public Licence.
Orang - Berlin
The"Open Radio Archive Network Group". ORANG is the distributed version of Radio Internationale Stadt which means, that audio content can now be published on different servers. Recipients can choose their specific audio content, according to their personal interests, can listen to it anytime and can add content to the system.
Orang - London
Orang - Riga
OVA (Open Video Archive)
The OVA project has been launched in 1999 by Radio Internationale Stadt and ZKM. The basis of OVA is ORANG {Open Radio Archive Network Group}. It offers a dynamical platform for the presentation of video content for independant artists and other creative people in the cultural environment.
q u a l i a p l a y e r
A tool for controlling realaudio material from r a d i o q u a l i a. The script is available for repurposing.
TELEWEB. ORG
A free audi visual space where you can create and manage youn own media.
Unmax
Unmax is devoted to the development of new media artworks, music and image processing software using Cycling74's Max.
Vidvox.net
Artists working in the electronic arts producing tools for the cultural sector. Tools include the "Prohpet Quicktime Sampler for Macintosh".
World Service
The World Service is net.radio groupware designed to assist netcasters in the production of new live streams and also the scheduling of these and already existing live streams. This service intends to provide bedroom broadcasters and cultural/ community groups tools to effectively distribute their content around the globe on an equal footing with both state and corporate radio stations.
Xchange
Xchange mailinglist has been on-line since December 1997, and so far mostly re-lab.net team in Riga/Latvia has maintained it. Xchange is also a community of net.casters and a open collaborative network for live net.casting.
TOYS
http://www.sonicbox.com
web radio tuner
http://www.akoo.com
web radio tuner
http://www.kerbango.com
web radio tuner
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