This weeks reSync workshop studies the mechanisms for broadcast we have made use of over the years.. We welcomed Anthony Davies from Maydayrooms and missed out on talking to Bruno Sanhueza DJ contributor to the WirelessFM we host at stream.spc.org.
When we first opened Deckspace in 2001 several of our longer term collaborators from Backspace were keen to continue with their live audio and streaming projects.
PirateTV presented live streaming video and audio from their base at first from Coldcut studio in Clink Street till 1999 and later from Outerbongolia in Herne Hill in South London.
<Blink> was featured in a touring Arts for Networks exhibition and utilised the pioneering FrequencyClock engine designed and built by Adam Hyde. He installed a frequencyclock for <Blink> which we used at Deckspace for many years.
Jem Finer authored Longplayer in celebration of the millennium in 2000, a thousand year musical composition driven by supercolider scripts and. SPC has hosted the listening station since 2002 and we work with Longplayer Trust to keep the composition publicly available.
Pirate Radio Listening Station was designed and built by Heath Bunting and was moved to Deckspace from ICA in 2008. It lists pirate radio FM broadcasts receivable in the SE London area and remote control of the tuner which in turn re-streams the selected station.
In 2010 Rob Canning installed SourceFabric’s Airtime server but we haven’t turned to it as a tool so far. Its available at airtime.kiben.net
Today we have been talking about which of the newer solutions could be of use to us as we review the SPC repository we are building at Deckspace.tv. We like Pad.ma for its scope to manipulate meta data and will accommodate ‘deep links’ to the timeline. InterLace by Robert M Ochshorn takes these ideas further incorporating slitscreen views of film strips and contextural interlinking in its web based player. Check this link to his presentation.
During the session it became clear our enthusiasm for bit torrent sync would present issues for our project as it is not open source so we looked at alternative methods of p2p transport for our report publishing. Gio turned up as we began this discussion and suggested we look at Retroshare and Adnan already has an install of Owncloud operational so issued us accounts to test out.