I N F O R M A T I O N   O N   N E T Z R A D I O

zur deutschen Fassung

G E N E R A L   C O N C E P T
The Netzradio is a geographical independent radio which will transmit arts and political content worldwide by the Internet. The representation of arts is aimed at music (contemporary and/or electronical) and literature, where the latter will foremost take the advantage on poetry slams but can be readings also. The political content will be a representation of the contrary interests of "commercial rsp. established news" ./. "free news by the concerned". It is all in all not planed to be the voice of a specific political group. Since the restricitions of the tariffs of the german Telekom will bound a netbased radio to a delimiting timespace of being 'on air' only during 2200h to 0500h MST. This is due to the bills the listeners will receive, not the radio itself. At first, the Netzradio will be on air three times a week, each of that for one hour and contain one of the given items. Usually the transmission will start at 2200h MST. As a irregularity, the thursday event (music) will start at 2100h due to the possibility of being transmitted by radio FRO in Vienna live (or parts of our transmission). As a remarkable speciality, the archiv of the radio will provide all of the transmissions, chronologicaly sorted and prepared to deliver on demand. Also there will be a searchmachine to find any old news (as text) in a database.

G O A L S
The Netzradio project is aiming to bring radio away from classical oneway-communication (1:n) into a multiway-communication (m:n) tool. To achieve this we will use the later mentioned technical setup. As a principle Netzradio don't want to be accessible via Internet only. Instead we plan to be transmitted on cable as well as 'on air'. This can only be done with help from others since radiofrequencies are expensive, and as it shows up in Berlin, difficult to get. Another issue would be raising a transmitting station which is only possible with a massive amount of money. As a solution to this, we'd like to coorporate with other local and international radios who have already their respective frequencies/channels. They could just transmit parts or whole events with their facilities. Furthermore Netzradio invites listeners/contributors of content to coorporate on the transmissions. Since the simplest setup would only provide to listen to inplace productions this extension is on of the most important goals of Netzradio

P A R T I C I P A N T S
At this time Netzradio consists primary of Daniel Scheffler as the technical coordinator and executive chief. News and contacts will be maintained by Ilia Castellanos. Organization of readings and poetry slams are up to Claudius Hagemeister. The program will be produced in coorperation with PI-Radio/Berlin. Further freelancers and correspondents are welcome. The transmission itself is supported through the facilities of Contrib.Net. Our actual studio/station is located at the artshouse Tacheles in Berlin-Mitte. Using the housenet facilities which are the work of Nurschrec!Werbemittelgestaltung and Khaled Kenawi. The RealAudio livecontent server belongs to the SFB (radio free Berlin) and TU-Berlin (technical university).

T E C H N I C A L
Especially in the case of news/interviews rsp. poetry slams with distributed poets (e.g. berlin, new york, madrid... etc) one would need a second RealAudio server, hence the online users would have an interrupted transmission if another encoder would take place instead of the one that is already transmitting. To be able to insert into a running stream, one need a second stream which could then be mixed in at the station. This would enable real participation of users/listeners on the production of content.


             +-- < RA server 1 (transmission) <-------- encoder (computer 1) <-+
             |           (located at our                  (in the studio)      |
             |            provider)                                            |
Internet <==>+                                                               mixer
             |                                                                 |
             |                                                                 |
             +-- > RA server 2 (external feature) ----> player (computer 2) >--+
                        (may or may not                  (in the studio)
                         be located at our
                         provider)

The external features which would be streamed by the second server could then be mixed into the livestream, which in turn is stream by the first server.

C O N T A C T
eMail: danY
snailmail: danY c/o Kunsthaus Tacheles e.V.
Oranienburger Str.54-56a, D-10117 Berlin
Fon: 030-282 61 85 // Fax: 030-282 31 30

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