RRRRADIO

VERY PUBLIC RADIO.
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BASIC INFORMATION

An internet radio station hosted at http://aaaaarg.fail.
Began broadcasting: on 20 October 2015.
Average listeners: 20
Max listeners: 37


ABOUT OF THE STATION

* It is based on the interests of the community of aaaaarg.fail, which is a collective online
library generally focused on philosophy, aesthetics, politics, design, and technology. The
library supports students struggling against institutions, autonomous self-education, social
movements, and other collective creative practices.

* There is no fixed program or schedule. When someone wants to broadcast (if there is not
someone already broadcasting at that moment) they connect and broadcast live right away. When
they are finished, that broadcast is added to the archive.

* When no one is broadcasting, the archived broadcasts are replayed in random order.


LIVE BROADCASTS?

So far there have been no live broadcasts, only rebroadcasts of lectures, discussions, and readings,
often by the same people who are in the library.

Eventually, in the spirit of Bertolt Brecht (in "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication") or
Radio Alice, we would like to open up the broadcast booth to all listeners. The technology for this
is already in place (see http://aaaaarg.fail/radio/speak). Perhaps the most rational thing would be
to establish a sensibility by setting forth an initial constellation of voices, themes,
and formats. But for now, let's just let it


CONSTELLATION

We are especially interested in giving voice-time to:
- students involved in occupations or other actions
- people working in libraries thinking about digitization, copyright, access, etc.
- readings by writers of recently published texts
- demands of the publishing industry, or aaaaarg.fail for that matter
- verbal annotations/ readings of texts in the library
- autonomous spaces who want to amplify an event they are putting on
- tbc


HOW

The no-configuration way is this:

1. Using Chrome, go to: http://aaaaarg.fail/radio/speak
2. When you click "start broadcasting" and see the line moving, you're on!
3. Click "stop broadcasting" when you're done

If you are an experienced broadcaster, you may have a favorite tool (like BUTT) and
if so, then write to aaaarg.org@gmail.com and we will send you the login credentials.