“This project requires you to set a problem and provide a unique, innovative, creative, informed and culturally aware solution. Projects are to be negotiated with your tutor through an initial proposal written up in your workbook. It is essential that the production work is informed by critical debate underway in seminars and lectures”
More music options are available to people these days through the power of technology, use of bit torrent and “lime wire” are popular internet resources for downloading music. Websites like “amazon” will record your recently viewed items and suggest recommendations. There is an increase in digital radio and as before people were restricted by the area they live in, now they can tune into London radio stations like “XFM” in Plymouth. Again the internet opens up even more options with internet radio taking off, listeners can listen to radio stations the other side of the world through their computer, it is now cheaper to broadcast music from the net. Till now it has been possible to ring up a radio station to request a song.
So….
I propose that you could do exactly the same online, using a website with a simple interface where by users could log on and submit their own audio tracks, be it music by there band or latest chart topper, or any audio file that they wanted to be played. It would enter a play list, and eventually get played. Everybody could go to the website and listen.
Research:
I started first of all by looking on search engines for online radio, and online juke box; however found this to be a waste of my time, as there wasn’t really anything about it.
In terms of generative art regarding audio there doesn’t seem a vast amount out there. For a while I looked into musical algorithms- this is a set of rules that the computer is given to compose music using procedures, without much need for user interaction. Karlheinz Essl is known for the creation of the “real time composition library”- software that would allow the user to produce music, based on functions within its library using a simple interface, rather than having to program operations. Karlheinz Essl has done a lot of work with musical algorithms and generative art in term of audio
There is now more work being done with customized internet radio, where software will filter the content to suit the user, much like amazon will give recommendations, they will automatically play you content that you will like.
One example of the above is jukebox alive, where as an artist or a listener you can log in and search for different types of music based on genre, artist, track or album and it will filter through all sorts of music to find music to suit your taste.
So my idea will be to effectively have a radio station where the public is the DJ- therefore a piece of media that may be changed to a large degree depending what songs or tracks people upload…the order and logic of conventional radio stations even customized radio stations will be replaced by interactive and random audio and left to the listeners to control it.
Technical solutions:
I will use a database to store the tracks that people upload, and use query strings to call each track from the data base play it, then move to the next track until end of file.
At the moment I think that I will try to use asp (active server pages), as sql can be used to find files in a data base.
I have also looked at shout cast- a web site that “permits anyone on the internet to broadcast audio from their PC to listeners across the Internet or any other IP-based network”
I will create the website interface using adobe Photoshop and dream weaver; this will be simple and easy to use.
Proposed production timetable:
Now > 01.01.07
Research into more technical solutions, find help with coding and how to implement this idea
07.01.07
Start writing code, testing it
14.01.07
Finish writing code, have it working
28.02.07
work on the Gui
15.03.07
Finish working on Gui
23.04.07
hand in date
Netography:
http://www.essl.at/works/rtc.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://runme.org/
http://shoutcast.com
http://www.jukeboxalive.com/music.php
http://www.google.com
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