MachineMachine /stream - tagged with radio http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction, a glitch, we get a fleeting glimpse of an alien intelligence at work. As electricity has become the basic element of the world we live in, the steady hum of power grids and their flowing immaterial essences slowly replacing the cogs and cranks of everyday machinery, the ghostly rapport has also relocated into the domain of current fluctuations, radio interference and misread data.

Early telegraph experimenters… ]]> Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:17:47 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/all-programs-considered/?pagination=false Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This is likely because it serves largely as a transmission device, a way to take other art forms (songs, sermons) and spread them out into the world. Its other uses can be fairly pedestrian too: ball games and repetitive, if remarkably effective, right-wing commercial talk radio. Rush Limbaugh is the radio ratings champ; according to the industry’s trade journal he reaches 14.25 million listeners in an average week. Sean Hannity, working… ]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:50:00 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/all-programs-considered/?pagination=false Night Waves: Is the Book Dead? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v4s8v/Night_Waves_Is_the_Book_Dead/ Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles the vexed question: Is the book dead? As e-books outsell hardbacks for the first time is reading itself facing a future that is empowered or impoverished?

The venue is Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland, which famously occupies a former railway station. Onstage with Philip will be guests writer David Almond, author of the prize-winning novel Skellig, Chris Meade of the Institute for the Future of the… ]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:10:00 -0700 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v4s8v/Night_Waves_Is_the_Book_Dead/ CERN Podcast | Chris Morris http://www.cernpodcast.com/?p=43 Chris Morris is considered to be one of the greatest satirists ever and has been responsible for some of the most controversial, and let’s face it funny, programmes on television. In the UK, comedy writers and performers ranked him number 11 out of the 50 greatest comedy acts ever, above people including Bill Hicks, Peter Sellars and Eddie Izzard.

Apart from being a comedy great, he’s an incredibly interesting guy. He’s performed with Peter Cook, Stereolab used his sketches as lyrics on one of their albums, he won a BAFTA for his first short film and, for… ]]> Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:53:00 -0700 http://www.cernpodcast.com/?p=43 Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/06/inside-code-a-conversation.html
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A couple of weeks ago I was invited to take part in a panel discussion on London based, arts radio station, Resonance FM. It was for The Thread, a lively show that aims to use speech and discussion as a tool for research, opening up new and unexpected angles through the unravelling of conversation.

The Thread's host, London Consortium researcher Seph Rodney, and I were lucky enough to share the discussion with Dr. Lane DeNicola,…

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Podcast: January 22nd 2010 / theme = Brian Eno inspired

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]]> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:38:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/noise/noise-on-22nd-january-2010-theme-brian-eno-inspired/noise-on-22nd-january-2010-theme-brian-eno-inspired The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication http://home.freeuk.net/lemmaesthetics/brecht1.htm by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been called for. Thus there was a moment when technology was advanced enough to produce the radio and society was not yet advanced enough to accept it. The radio was then in its first phase of being a substitute: a substitute for theatre, opera, concerts, lectures, cafe music, local newspapers and so forth. This was the patient's period of halcyon youth. I am not sure if it is finished yet,… ]]> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:16:00 -0700 http://home.freeuk.net/lemmaesthetics/brecht1.htm /noise on 11th December 2009 / theme = best first tracks on albums http://machinemachine.net/text/noise/noise-on-11th-december-2009-theme-best-first-tracks-on-albums/noise-on-11th-december-2009-theme-best-first-tracks-on-albums

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Podcast: December 11th 2009 / theme = best first tracks on albums

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]]> Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:50:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/noise/noise-on-11th-december-2009-theme-best-first-tracks-on-albums/noise-on-11th-december-2009-theme-best-first-tracks-on-albums █░LAST░█░M░I░D░I░█ █░BACKGROUND░█ http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/lmb/#73 It is an internet radio, a cyberspace shuttle, and a kind of archive. LMB takes you on a journey through an almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and doesn't care about standards. Though it might be forgotten by many, some parts of it are still there, waiting to be explored. And maybe we can learn something along the way. What? LMB plays a continous stream of MIDI music. However these aren't just random tunes, instead the songs are taken from websites where they are being played as background music. While playing a song the LMB cyberspace shuttle… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:04:00 -0700 http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/lmb/#73 /noise on 4th December 2009 / theme = soundtracks http://machinemachine.net/text/noise/4th-december-2009-soundtracks/noise-on-4th-december-2009-theme-soundtracks

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Podcast: December 4th 2009 / theme = soundtracks

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Podcast: November 27th 2009

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Podcast: November 20th 2009

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