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  Herbert A. Meyer

Meyer, H.A. (1998). Workspace radio. In R. Smite & R. Smits (Eds.), Acoustic.Space - net audio issue (p. 60). Riga: Vaga & E-Lab.

  • Abstract

    Hybrid WorkSpace has been a temporary laboratory during documenta X in Kassel. More than 100 days it was a zone of critical thought and productive conflict, a social space to manufacture consent and initialize dissent. The Orangerie, a historic building in the central park of Kassel, has been transformed into an open media studio to collect, select, connect, record, and distribute information and content. Eleven workgroups, invited through the Nettime Brothers and friends, dealt with current social, political and cultural issues. Distribution beyond the Orangerie was realised via selected zones on the Internet as well as through print media and radio broadcasting.

    The free radio of Kassel (Freies Radio Kassel) submitted a platform to go on the air. Radio Internationale Stadt (RIS) - an open RealAudio-server - provided the opportunity to archive the audio stuff. Freies Radio Kassel is a local radio with a range in and around Kassel. It is an uncommercial braodcast-projekt, which depends on ideal and financial public support. The Freies Radio Kassel is defined by an open access, where people, especially those, who are underrepresentated in the common media get the opportunity to create a program which is different from the common information market. In this case the term of 'counter-public' will be best to describe the ideals of Freies Radio Kassel. Nevertheless the radio is bound on the formal rights of the press.

    Herbert Meyer connected Hybrid Workspace, RIS and Freies Radio Kassel. He coached 50 hours on the air and looked after the real audio-archive. During 'Xchange on-air session' he will discuss his experiences and show some of the acoustical results of the 'summer of content'.

    Real Audio fragment of the contribution

    URL's of WorkSpace Radio
    outsite interfiction/WorkSpace_Radio
    outsite RIS/workspace

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