Friday 30 January 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2553

There are 7 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. World Community Arts Day (Feb 17): Looking for Radio-Audio Collabor
From: Janet Feldman

2. Efek Rumah Kaca di Kompas Sabtu berbicara bahasa korupsi
From: yurskie.

3. Ardour digital audio workstation.
From: George Lessard

4. Open Source Radio Station Technology
From: George Lessard

5. List of free software for audio
From: George Lessard

6. 150 scholarships announced - IGNOU's community radio programme to be
From: George Lessard

7. INDIA: Setting up Community Radio Stations(Guidelines)
From: George Lessard


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1. World Community Arts Day (Feb 17): Looking for Radio-Audio Collabor
Posted by: "Janet Feldman" kaippg@earthlink.net frida02806
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:55 pm ((PST))

Dear Friends,

I'm working to sign up events for World Community Arts Day, being held "live" and on the Internet on February 17, 2009. A number of groups and individuals from around the world have signed up to participate, and you can see more at the url below.

http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

The organizers would love to sign up radio events, so hopefully a number of Creative Radio members will respond!

I recently received this letter from an Internet radio station based in Northern Ireland, which describes what they are looking for:

"I manage an organisation called Beyond Skin (www.beyondskin.net) using the arts to address racism and sectarian issues in Northern Ireland. We run an internet radio station, Homely Planet (www.homelyplanet.org) and will be developing a special broadcast for the day.

Any ideas for a audio collaboration for radio might be interesting. Something simple would be fine: for example, someone from Northern Ireland could email their own poem to someone in Kenya, who could record themselves reading it out for us to broadcast. And other way around.

People can email MP3's to this gmail address: homelyplanet@gmail.com

We don't podcast--amongst other reasons to support other groups linked to radio programs--so we can send recordings to other websites.

It would be great for people to know their words were being spoken and recorded by someone across the world!"

Best wishes,

Darren Ferguson
Homely Planet Team
www.homelyplanet.org
c/o Beyond Skin
PO Box 21, Ballyclare, Co Antrim
BT39 1AB


One such event WCAD has organized in the past can be seen and heard at MySpace. This involved a gathering of primary school students and their teachers, who all sang in unison: "when the people play their part". http://www.myspace.com/worldcommunityartsday

On this February 17th, a live podcast is planned, on the theme: "All You Need Is Love". This is being organized by Peopleprint Community Media, and will feature Beatles tribute band, "The Cheatles", who will be performing the song of the same title with an orchestra, local volunteers, and young people.

Provisional broadcast time will be 7pm GMT. For more, see http://www.peopleprint.org.uk and
http://www.beatlestribute.co.uk. Contact Dawn at Peopleprint Community Media for more details:
peopleprints@btconnect.com.

Any other radio ideas, especially interchanges among people in different countries, are most welcome!
Please contact Andrew Crummy (WCAD head organizer) at andrewcrummy@phonecoop.coop or
andrew@smallandcrummy.co.uk, Darren Ferguson (homelyplanet@gmail.com), or Janet Feldman kaippg@earthlink.net)

Thanks, and hope to "hear" from you for WCAD 2009! All best wishes, Janet Feldman


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2. Efek Rumah Kaca di Kompas Sabtu berbicara bahasa korupsi
Posted by: "yurskie." yurskie_erk@yahoo.com yurskie_erk
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:56 pm ((PST))

Efek Rumah Kaca setiap sabtu di Kompas
 
Salah satu ciri nyata dari betapa memasyarakatnya korupsi adalah keberagaman istilah bahasa dan kosa kata yang lahir berkat aktivitas itu. Aneka mata uang tercipta: pelicin, uang rokok, uang dengar, sampai uang kaget. Kata keterangan tempat kian beragam: lahan basah, lahan becek, hingga lahan banjir.. Para pelaku korupsi, baik yang kakap maupun yang "kelas kelurahan", banyak mengumbar eufimisme untuk mengutarakan lokasi, maksud, dan motif korupsinya- mungkin biar koruptor terlihat lebih santun lagipula beradab untuk menutupi tindakan manipulasinya. Singkatnya, koruptor juga mahir nyastra. Baca lengkapnya di kompas sabtu besok.
 
Edisi kemaren Efek Rumah Kaca menjadi cover di majalah HAI. baca bongkar rahasia ERK disana.
 
30 Januari         Kompak Kampus TRAX FM   19.00
31 Januari         Galaxee SMP PJ Bintaro          20.30
1 Februari        Kompas Fair, Istora     15.00
 
for info
efekrumahkaca@gmail.com
myspace.com/efekrumahkaca
081394257339 (yurie)

Yurie "efek rumah kaca"
Management ERK
0813 9425 7339
YM: yurskie_erk

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3. Ardour digital audio workstation.
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:18 pm ((PST))

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and
mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video
soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive
editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful
mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and
hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If
you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or
Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This
means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some
leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a
completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow
as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide
range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and
pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as
"persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching
modes that aren't available on other platforms.

http://ardour.org/

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4. Open Source Radio Station Technology
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:18 pm ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [IMC-Audio] Open Source Station Technology
From: "Sofia JarrinT" <sofiajt@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, January 29, 2009 09:51
To: imc-audio@lists.indymedia.org
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Just passing this along because it looks quite interesting...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen Kelly <stephen.kelly@dal.ca>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Subject: [ncra] Open Source Station Technology
To: frieda.werden@gmail.com


Hey All,

I thought I'd pipe in to let you know what CKDU in Halifax has been up to.
We've been operating on almost %100 open source software since 2003.
This is
documented here:
http://ckdu.dal.ca/ckdu-os

The site is a little bit outdated but I think its a good overview of the
stations computer structure. It would be interesting to have other folks
contribute their cc radio-related open source solutions to the site...

To sum things up in relation to your questions:

a. logging / live streaming
We also use Tom Cleggs fantastic software mp3cat. As an example, you
can access
our web interface here:
http://ckdu.dal.ca

b. podcasting
We use bashpodder (http://www.lincgeek.org/bashpodder/) for "podcatching",
automatically downloading syndicated programming. Currently we're
modifying the script a bit to better accommodate our needs. I can
recommend this version:
http://podracer.sourceforge.net/
As for podcasting our own programming, we provide a bit of web space
for each individual show (in-house freebsd web server) and let them manage
their own podcast if they want... only about 4 or 5 shows actually
maintain a podcast.

c. recording / playback
We primarily use Audacity and Ardour http://ardour.org/ for recording and
editing. Most people use Audacity because its so simple, especially new
volunteers. However, more and more people are starting to learn Ardour
because its a much more powerful and
user-friendly tool.
We use xmms for on-air playback of all digital audio because of its
simplicity and because inertia rules.. this is what we've been using for
years and its fine aside from a few annoying quirks. This will probably
change in the near future to either a full-fledged automation system like
Campcaster
(http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/) or a music management
program like Amarok.

Hope this helps.
--Stephen

Quoting "terrence.eugene.brennan" <terry@kootenaycoopradio.com>:

> Hello Nick,
>
> Thanks for asking this, we at CJLY in Nelson are always interested in
> learning what others are up to, as well as sharing info.
>
>>
>> a. What kinds of digital logging systems/software are other
stations using
>> for CRTC program logs?
>>
>
> We are just on the verge of moving to a digital playlist written by
one of
> our volunteers, which will see the same dbase as our music library (no
> audio, just records of cd's in our library).
>
> As Magnus noted earlier, Tom Clegg (CJLY volunteer extraordinaire),
wrote
> some software (http://tomclegg.net/logger) that we use for audio logging,
> streaming, and studio playback. We have a freebsd machine in our studio
> dedicated to mp3 playback: promos, sponsorship spots, repeat shows, and
> syndicated programmes.
>
>>
>> b. What methods of podcasting are other stations using? i.e. podcast
>> hosting, software, servers, etc...
>>
>
> Last fall we moved our website to an Expression Engine CMS, with
some extra
> scripting that takes care of our podcasts. The audio files are hosted at
> GoDaddy. As well we are listed at itunes (great for getting the
word out).
>
>>
>> c. What methods of recording are other stations using? Digicarts and/or
>> computer software?
>>
>
> For field recording we're still using minidiscs, but are hoping to
pick up a
> couple of Olympus LS digital recorders in the summer. Studio
playback - see
> above. For production we mainly use Soundforge and a few folks work with
> audacity.
>
> It is a station goal to move to all open source software. We just took
> another step in this direction by implementing a browsing computer in our
> on-air room running Ubuntu. We do not have audio going from this
machine to
> the console, to prevent youtube / myspace type of content being
broadcast.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry Brennan
> Operations Manager
> Kootenay Coop Radio
> CJLY - 93.5 FM - Nelson, BC
>

--
Frieda Werden, Producer
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service, Vancouver BC, Canada
www.wings.org

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5. List of free software for audio
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:53 pm ((PST))

List of free software for audio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_audio_software


This list of free software for audio lists notable free software for use
by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording
and reproduction.

Contents
* 1 Audio analysis
* 2 Converters
* 3 Modular systems
* 4 Platforms
* 5 Programming languages
* 6 Radio broadcasting
* 7 Recording and editing
* 8 Softsynths
* 9 Streaming
* 10 Technologies
* 11 Trackers
* 12 Other
* 13 See also
* 14 External links

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6. 150 scholarships announced - IGNOU's community radio programme to be
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:42 am ((PST))

IGNOU's community radio programme to become more job oriented
Indopia - India
To impart practical knowledge to its students of certificate programme in
community radio, IGNOU has entered into an understanding with the
Commonwealth ...
<http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/489737/National/1/20/1>

New Delhi

To impart practical knowledge to its students of certificate programme in
community radio, IGNOU has entered into an understanding with the
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
http://www.cemca.org/ and 10 broadcasters across the country.

The broadcasters are mostly based in the Southern states and in Jharkhand,
West Bengal and Orissa. They will impart on-the-job-training to the
enrolled students of the certificate programme at their centres and
hands-on training to the pass-outs in the initial stage, said an IGNOU
spokesperson.

" Half of the course component is thoroughly practical and will be learnt
through apprenticeship," he said.

The broadcasters would, in turn, be financially supported by IGNOU and
CEMCA. CEMCA has also announced 150 scholarships for students willing to
set up community radios, the spokesperson said.

Importantly, he said, IGNOU's School of Journalism and New Media Studies
has also decided to utilise the Gyan Vani facility in selective charts of
time-slots to run community radio broadcasting schedule. These efforts are
likely to generate jobs and boost extension services in agriculture,
fisheries, floriculture, horticulture, among others.

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7. INDIA: Setting up Community Radio Stations(Guidelines)
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:42 am ((PST))

INDIA: Setting up Community Radio Stations(Guidelines)

http://www.cemca.org/crguide.htm

CEMCA
8/4 Sarv Priya Vihar, New Delhi - 110016
Telephone: +91-11-2653 7146, 2653 7148
Fax No.: +91-11-2653 7147
eMail: admin@cemca.org

# Community Radio: An Overview(Movie)
# How to fill-up SACFA application (New)
# How to apply for a Community Radio License?
# Setting up a Community Radio Station Steps involved
# Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India
# Application form for grant of permission for setting up Community Radio
Station (seven copies to be submitted)
# Grant of Permission Agreement
# For Migration from Old Guidelines to New Guidelines (4.12.2006)
# Sample Documents
# Community Radios – Frequently Asked Questions
# List of Institutions/ Organisations Applied For Grant of Permission For
Community Radio Stations (As on 20.6.2007)
# List of Community Radio Stations in India- MSWORD PDF
Click for New Delhi, India Forecast
# Community Radio: An Overview(Movie)
# How to fill-up SACFA application (New)
# How to apply for a Community Radio License?
# Setting up a Community Radio Station Steps involved
# Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India
# Application form for grant of permission for setting up Community Radio
Station (seven copies to be submitted)
# Grant of Permission Agreement
# For Migration from Old Guidelines to New Guidelines (4.12.2006)
# Sample Documents
# Community Radios – Frequently Asked Questions
# List of Institutions/ Organisations Applied For Grant of Permission For
Community Radio Stations (As on 20.6.2007)
# List of Community Radio Stations in India- MSWORD PDF
# Refer
# Capacity Building workshop for Managers of Functional CRs, New Delhi on
13th February, 2008 Report Photogallery
CR Project Guide Lines: (Conducted During - Third Regional consultation
for Community Radio )
# Guidlines: Science for: Women's Health
# Presentation of the Plans and Programmes of RVPSP


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