Use Case Radio Programmer

From CopyCult

The Radio Program Maker

Maria is busy preparing a radio program about experimental audio. She logs into the archive of the Piet Zwart Institute and uses the cross-archive search to look for the terms "performance" and "speech". The search returns several hundred results, with those including both terms listed first. From the first results, she clicks on an item titled:

Ursonography (Schwitters Ursonate Adaptation 2005)(excerpts) 06:15
Jaap Blonk [Voice]. Golan Levin [Live typography]. Kurt Schwitters [Text].  
Performance: © 2005 Jaap Blonk & Golan Levin.

Excerpt from DVD
AVI format video (06:15)

In this new audiovisual treatment of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate, Jaap Blonk's performance is augmented with a
modest but elegant form of expressive, real-time, intelligent subtitles. Using computer-based speech recognition  
and score-following technologies, projected subtitles are tightly locked to the timing and timbre of Blonk's
voice, and brought forth with a variety of dynamic typographic transformations that reveal new dimensions and
hidden resonances within the poem's structure.

Maria uses a built in player to view an exerpt of the performance. She sets an in and out point on one minute of the video. A special URL appears that Maria can cut and paste that represents her selection of the portion of the video from the archive. She pastes this URL in her “playlist” that she has created for the radio program. Through a special drop down menu, Maria is able to download her selection as an OGG formated audio clip.

Maria clicks on the name Kurt Schwitters and is shown a listing of all materials in all archives related to Schwitters. She follows a link to another sound recording, and adds a portion of it to her playlist. ...

As Maria is planning to visit Brussels the following week, she clicks on Brussels to narrows her results to those held by institutions in that city, including contact information for each organization.

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Two weeks later, Maria uploads her completed radio program to the archive of the Piet Zwart Institute. In the description of the item, she includes a link to the playlist including the original references of (some) of the materials used in the program. This program now becomes available to other users of the archive.