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The questions were:
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
2. If yes, why do you think so?
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
Those questions derive from a questionnaire which was forwarded to the
Xchange mailinglist in October 99 and which was originally set up by
Phoebe Ng Mee Hui.
mikro/convex tv. took the freedom to edit the questions a little bit to
bring them into shape for net.radio day 99.
Here are the answers sent by the contributors to net.radio day 99
(in no particular order)
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G.H. Hovagimyan
art dirt
http://www2.awa.com/artnetweb/gh/
gh@thing.net
>1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Yes - It allows musicians and many other people ways to develop personal
media.
>2. If yes, why do you think so?
>When you develop personal media I put the communication power back in the
hands of the people. This allows for a net communication that is
horizontal and democratic. No one person holds the power to *broadacast*
propaganda to the many.
>3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Benefit ? Well one gets to hear music and ideas from all around the world.
Its similar to the Sci-Fi movie cliche one see's in movies with the sound
of all the combined radio stations heard from a satellite in outer space.
>4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting
>I hope that there will conitnue to be individuals doing small netcasts
and streams but I think that will end soon because of lack of money. I
think netcasting will be taken over by the music business.
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herbert a. meyer
sonic
http://exp.psychologie.uni-kassel.de/sonic/
hameyer@hrz.uni-kassel.de
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Radio is nothing to believe in.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
Internet does not only support digitized communication facilities or
automated information circuitries, it helps us to learn to understand each
other as users of a shared environment, not just connecting computers.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
Das Radio als Ausgangshypothese, als Spiel, weder Ziel noch befreiende
Praxis.
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Peter Notari aka pita
pita@c3.hu
pararadio
http://www.c3.hu/para/
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Yeah, it is.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
It's important, as it allows all sorts of audio stuff (music, mix, speech)
to reach people, audiences, listeners all around the world. Also presents
a more and more valid alternative to "proper" radios on air. This is
especially true in Hungary for example, where mainstream
radios are present only on airwaves, thus no real musical/ideological
alternative is available.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
the benefits are twofold. depending on live broadcasting and archived one,
we can see different benefits. live is/can be interactive through
irc/telephone/etc, whereas archived broadcasts give the listeners the
freedom of a cd player, since they can jump between bits of programmes on
their realplayers. also webcasts allow you to broadcast music/mixes/etc
that is not possibel on "proper" radio
maybe, due to limitations in time/hardware or anything.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
there can be further development of internet radios/broadcasters and as
the net is expanding so rapidly, this is a very likely thing to
materaliase in the next coming years. we are talking about not the US,
where this has already happened, but mainly europe and even more so
eastern/central europe. these areas badly need stations that can broadcast
different views from the ones available on normal channels. (just remember
b92 of belgrade and its huge importance)
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zina (& caleb.k and mr.snow)
house of laudanum
zina+kaye
zina@laudanum.net
http://laudanum.net/
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
I think independent audio webcasting is very important
2. If yes, why do you think so?
I think it's about having a voice, an experimental space where
you don't have to play by any rules.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Listening to something whilst you do something else.
It's not a soundtrack to the web anymore, it's a way of life,
and it has been so since radio was invented.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
I think in the future we'll be wandering around jamming together,
over mobile phone lines; there will be interactive webcasting
servers; there will be no delineation between file
types as you'll just plug them in like pieces of equipment into
a mixer.
I believe users will develop their own more human interfaces because
you'll
be able to 'skin' any software.
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Radio Bauhaus
http://www.uni-weimar.de
Lars Mai
Lars.Mai@gmx.de
1. Do You think audio webcasting is very important?
Yes.
2. Why do You think so?
A. In the most countries webcasting runs without license. So it is
possible to make, test, xchange, program without oppression-stress. These
programms can be broadcast later.
B. Webcasting is the best cheap way to xchange audio.
C. Webcasting is a language which can be understood by everybody, who has
ears. This is more emotional and direct than email, irc or
video-streaming.
D. Webcasting is a way to give data in pass-by-way. I's like a
content-carpet on the wall of workaholics.
3. What is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Fuck off. What's benefit? It's a strange topic; break those rules!
4. What do You think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
It's a fine media for xchange acoustic spaces between people, who know
each other on a special way. Webcasting is no alternative for
broadcasting. It's very different and expensive. If it would be
affordable, than all mobile/cellular phones will have a web-cast feature.
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jason sweeney (dubhustler)
dubhustler@va.com.au
Banff Centre for the Arts
Alberta, Canada
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Totally.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
It allows for global exchange of audio events and ideas - mapping out new
territories for experimental communication.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Webcasting provides new channels/portals for audio transmission - and
(potentially) provides access to otherwise localised events/radio
stations/music & sound events on an international scale.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
Possibilities for more community webcasts and access; interactive
webcasts; single, massive archive storage centre (online and on cd-r) for
all webcasts (a webcast 'library' of sorts...)
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jerome joy
http://homestudio.thing.net/
joy@thing.net
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important? yes
2. If yes, why do you think so?
because of the future
very soon, audio streaming and audio via ISDN (yet already!) will change
the way of "writing" musical pieces, maybe divided in multi-parts on the
world, and the way of "circulating" and "receiving" a musical piece. Just
to re-find and to enhance the beauty of radio!
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting? see answer2
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting? see answer2
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Elisa Rose & Gary Danner
Station Rose
http://www.stationrose.com
gunafa@well.com
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
yes and no. We believe it«s mainly a prerunner of audiovisual webcastings
of the future. But it«s a first step, and mainly due to bandwith
parameters audio webcastings are still more common than hypermedia
streamings.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
Like with audiovisual webcasting, you can send your creations (hypermedia
jam sessions, talks etc.) "on the fly", that means live, while it is
created. The artist/musician benefits of the web insofar he/she can
communicate his/her content immediately, and in turn every person
interested can watch the results in realtime -20 seconds.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
It will be integrated into audiovisual content.
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Steve Bradley
art@radio
http://wmbc.umbc.edu/~artradio
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Yes, extremely important.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
The importance of webcasting goes beyond my opinion only. If you were to
count the increasing number of webcasting sites that have emerged in the
past few years that alone is a sign that the energy and audience is primed
for such activities. There is a growing audience and the need for venues
for artists experimenting with sound and experimental music. The desire
for artists to connect with other artists throughout the world drives the
net casting culture. The technology has arrived to conduct such endeavors
for both artist and audience.
The kind of energy and personal commitment that is found on the internet
today in the 90's in regards to web casting was found in the independent
cassette underground in the early eighties. The major difference is the
real time exchange we have on the internet that could not happen through
the postal system. Behind the cassette culture was the home recording
equipment that gave the artist both a cheap but reliable way of recording
and distributing capabilities unheard of prior to cassette technology. So
it goes. The internet provides the exchange medium for artists and
musicians to distribute their own goods without having to be filtered
first by the culture police.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
The benefit of audio webcasting is multi-fold in nature. The ability to
hear in real time what is being aired is of great interest to artists and
musicians. Crossing geographical and political boundaries is a great
advantage over traditional radio which would probably not get air play
untested by the masses. The potential for real-time culture jamming has
great promise. The audience is small for sound art but if you were to link
up every city in the world there would be a couple of individuals in each
city that have a passion for listening to experimental works. The numbers
add up very fast when you think of a couple of people in each city as
potential listeners.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
The future of audio webcasting has great potential for continued
networking among artists, experimental musicians, and cultural workers
throughout the world. As long as the internet continues to make room for
non-commercial enterprises there will be an audience for such experiments.
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todd louis
the womb
http://www.thewomb.com
todd@thewomb.com
Miami Beach
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Yes
2. If yes, why do you think so?
All multimedia webcasting is important. In the future the TV and the
computer will merge bringing us to another stage in the evolution of
technology and multimedia. Today via a single webcast we can reach people
in every country worldwide to entertain and influence them.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
The main benefit to audio and video broadcasting is that you can reach a
global audience on a daily basis with no additional cost to you. Second,
webcasts can be rebroadcast and served on demand as archives giving future
listeners accessability to it 24 hours a day.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
As codecs get better and the speeds at which we connect to the internet
get faster, the quality of the broadcasts will increase. Perhaps one day
the audio/video streams we provide will be accessable via TV or a
TV/Computer when that time comes. The major TV networks might have to
worry as the Music Industry is now. MP3's make record companies obsolite,
webcasting in the future could turn the average joe into a CBS or BBC.
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cyberchannel
http://www.cyberchannnel.de
V-Scout-Radioshow/ Olaf Riemer
go@zucker-kommunikation.de
Antworten der VICTORIA Versicherungen AG, Initiator der V-Scout-Radioshow.
In persona: Olaf Riemer, Projektleiter, verantwortlich innerhalb des
Vertriebsresorts für den Inhalt, die Konzeption und das Onlinemarketing
der Internetaktivitäten der VICTORIA Versicherungen AG
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
Yes, we do.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
The situation in the US shows already what the future could bring for
german internet-radio stations: When internet costs in Germany decline,
webcasting will become an important alternative to FM radio.
3. What is the benefit of audio webcasting?
People are seeking new forms of activities in the net: webcasting is a
completely new way to experience music and audio-shows online. Users can
listen to a webcasting content while they are surfing the www. Some
webcasters are already offering personalized radio services which means
the users can choose their own program. Furthermore, due to the fact that
webcasting contains audio- and videostreaming, the program ist more
experimental than regular FM radio shows. Users can watch videostreams
from djs or clubs. Live interaction with the radiocrew and the djs is no
problem. Or - like in the V-Scout-radioshow, a virtual character can be
the host of a show.
4. What do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
First: New kinds of radioshows will come up, shows which provide new
services for usergroups with special interests. Like V-Scout-radioshow
listeners, who are about to choose a job or to start studying at a
university. The V-Scout-radioshow offers them the information they need.
Second: In addition to the established radiostations and webcasters, new
content producers will take their opportunities. This could be, e.g.
artists, institutions, universities or - like the insurance group VICTORIA
Versicherungen AG - Companies and brandnames. Their intention could simply
be to produce special interest radioshows in order to support the sales of
their products or to enhance the company's image. You can name that
phenomenon "branded content- radioshows". These kind of content will be
very popular in the future of webcasting.
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maschek
www.maschek.org
vienna
robbe@maschek.org
1. Do you think audio webcasting is very important?
klar.
2. If yes, why do you think so?
weils die einzige unbegrenzte möglichkeit ist, audio zu veröffentlichen.
vor 4 jahren, als wir begonnen haben, gabs noch kein privatradio in wien.
internet uar die einzige möglichkeit. heute ists als archiv immer noch
wichtig und als vergroesserung unserer technischen reichweite.
3. what is the benefit of audio webcasting?
s.o., ausserdem ist der groesste benefit, dass alternative sachen leichter
und mehr angeboten koennen.
4. what do you think of the future usage of audio webcasting?
wird immer mehr werden, bei mir läuft netradio jetzt schon im hintergrund
(kabelmodem ohne datenlimit ist da natürlich vorausetzung, gibts in wien
relativ günstig) zu allen möglichen tätigkeiten. der "markt" wird sich
sehr differenzieren, viele verschiedene zielgruppen über eine grosse
geografische ausbreitung bedienen. wahrscheinlich wird netradio bald
uebers handy zu empfangen sein und zum alltagsmedium werden. und insgesamt
wirds einfach bessere audioinhalte geben als heute auf ukw.