RAR Shadow Streams

This project is an interactive art/performance/presentation on “Redhouse Art Radio” redefining and broadening the definition of radio in its existing form.

Through this project we are investigating new methods for distributing open content through networked radio.  “Redhouse Art Radio”, under the umbrella of the non-profit Redhouse Arts Center,  utilizes streaming technologies and open content to create new forms of urban information access and interactivity. “Redhouse Art Radio Shadow Streams” is conceptualized as a situational based technologies art project.

Utilizing the “Redhouse Art Radio Shadow Streams” as an interactive technology, we created a segment of interactive content utilizing Puredata and open source streaming methods.  One example:  participants can send text messages to the radio station that will be intercepted by Puredata for users to interact with the station content. This, therefore, will build new content and new forms of content through participatory collaborations.

Radio modules will be distributed in strategic locations around Syracuse, NY (or other urban areas) and low-bandwidth FM transmitters will keep the signal on the air and under the legal transmission limit.  Urban participants can call the radio station and or send text messages to create interactive maps and topologies that help to redefine the urban landscape in its audible form.

Using Puredata, interactive net-based radio will be possible to create this urban scenario. We have described this process as a type of “Reactable”, only using decentralized participants and audio modules through net-radio to create audible forms.

For PDCon09, modular radios were placed around the convention area. Convention goers were able to text message to the radio station and alter the content and sound components of the radio via their cell phones.

get some info about PDCON09 here:

http://blog.pdcon.org/

Convention Program here

Convention program and Map here

Redhouse Art Radio explores audio as an art-form and communication platform. It celebrates the cultural life of Syracuse and surrounding areas and seeks to connect local, national, and international audiences though its unique programming schedule, eclectic mixes of modern and contemporary audio forms, and rich cultural exchanges.