Open Air Performance as promotion for "in a building" / video lighting by sunshine

Last summer and during the lockdown there was a lot of interest in outside performance. I included some of this on the drama show for Phonic FM. Walks and processions have some sort of plot. I put clips and samples into social media, some included in radio shows. Phonic FM is mostly music so the idea of tracks as promotion for live performance is well established. For drama things are not so clear. It is harder to find short clips. Scripts assume full performance with a live audience. So there is less remix or sound editing.

Summer is good for video as the sunshine copes with the lighting. sound can still be a problem. I leave the mic close to a speaker. I used to be several video clips but now I mostly try to find something on YouTube or similar. There is a range of video for the Respect Festival and the Exeter Street Arts Festival so I will link to some of these and do a few new ones. The aim is to show a cycle that works enough as promotion for creatives to allow the recording. I think Widsith and Deor Theatre will be somewhere in UK this summer. Timings may be unexpected, performance may just be online.

Links welcome to sound clips / updates on theory around outdoor performance / promotion / creative commons / remix / open education.

I am still working with #TempRadioStudio as a tag / idea. No funds have appeared yet for mobile kit but Access All Aerials / CEDA have been able to use a site near Debenhams so this demonstrates what is possible. Performance is not far away in space, maybe later connected in time. Otherwise video will need an edit.

BBC decides on "Digital First"

Reporting has been mostly on closures but I think the BBC announcements from Tim Davie are mostly about a move to "Digital First". Exactly how this works will become clear over a few years as linear is closed. As I contibute to local radio the main bit I notice is that towards the end

We intend to remove any remaining duplication in the teams that work across the BBC, and stop bespoke activity when it’s not essential. As part of this, we shall continue to standardise the technology we use to be better and more flexible, like shifting from using radio cars and TV inject points to consumer technology like Zoom.

In other words consumer level technology should be capable of broadcast standard recording. Sound and vision. This is way off but BBC should share how they do this. Since lockdown there have been signs of how this might work but sound quality still varies. There must be some sort of higher level kit in a studio somewhere.

"Digital First" is a phrase also used by Adobe since at least last year. See report from India. It happens already with music , a bit slower with news.

Meanwhile Phonic FM and other Exeter signals are moving to DAB. As an operating model this is closer to FM. We seem to be going round in circles. I am also holding onto the idea that the transmitters are in a particular place. Online can be anywhere.

If BBC integrates global and UK news, also with production for sound and video , there will have to be some editing decisions. At the moment I find the World Service Radio is often different to UK telly. They may cover Russian bots for example, often ignored in UK going back to Brexit, but then not mention UK at all. More on this in future posts.

If the news is more in clips for social media there will be more interaction with individuals and opinions. Long ago Greg Dyke spoke about a public archive of BBC content, inviting citizens to remix. In practice anything from news channels can be reposted , with comments. This seems normal for all news.

I used to contribute to OhmyNews , citizen journalism site in South Korea. they had an English language site for a while. The editors welcomed a stream of comments and variations on a story. BBC news could add this sort of thing to the mix. However at this time the Twitter dialogue is mostly about the lack of reporting on #Brexit ( sorry going off topic )

Later in June there will be free online meetings about AI. I hope to follow this. BBC has the resource to invest in coding. For the radio shows I have in mind we may just develop some voice scripts and pretend to be robots. Possible apps include a breakfast sequence that includes data streams and occasional feeds from actual radio. Also an A3 form for solving problems as a voice interface to replace paper.

Reality base for Novel In Near Future

 It seems to vanish quite easily but the post for "The Novel In The Near Future" is there still. Repeats below.

Today Gaby Hinsliff has a comment on home working. she is right about the trends but she makes no mention of newspapers. I think #Partygate is such a crisis now that newspapers can tell #ShapeShiftingCreep what the diverting non story should be. So he may have been asked to write about working at home, eating cheese all day long etc. Print circulation for UK news is on a trend towards zero. Journalists fail to report this. Many organisations are already set up to move online. But the papers are still knocking social media. Gaby Hinsliff has another article in G2 about TikTokers and tweeters lackof respect for Amber Heard. No mention of newspapers though.

Anyway ever since Guardian Unlimited Talk was trashed without warning one Friday lunchtime, see previous tweets, I ahe tried but failed to connect with proper journalists. they just do not like comments.

The novel in the near future will assume that print newspapers have gone. Something else happens.

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 I am now catching up with bits of text that may be longer than a tweet or may get hard to find.  I started this idea on holiday back in September. Some sort of scifi time travel is needed to cope with the print newspapers. They might be about to vanish but they carry on as if still significant. People on telly pay attention to the demands for everyone to go back to working in central London so they can read the Metro and Evening Standard. So anyway the novel is sometime quite soon when the print circulations are close to zero. FT weekend bundle might be a model though, something will continue. The hero author is trying to work out how to get paid for words in this new world. He tried to be an influencer on social media but then read in a newspaper that tweeting was a waste of time. Then one Saturday he reads about the Every that turns out to be a damp squib.

To be continued

#Cybercrash2

 I have tweeted about Cybercrash2 but this now needs a bit more space. If Nasdaq heads below 10000 it could go lower. ADBE looks like continuing down. Google search finds chart and you can select max time period. this should show the 2000 crash as well as recent. There is a double top not so long ago. The earlier cybercrash looks like a small bump along the way compared to where things are now.

"Web 2.0" was invented to describe the new up phase after the crash. Later there will be something to follow whatever is associated with the bear market. ( I am assuming this is now probable but don't take any risks, I am only trying to make sense of things that happen ) So the next year or so could be "creative destruction" phase. This would include whatever was being disrupted as well as the ways disruption is fronted.

The MOOC scene could find that finance is very difficult. Learning might be an aspect of whatever follows. Nothing obvious yet but worth looking out for.