Hello dear streamer team,
I'm Esther Salmona, one of the first students of Locus Sonus.
During Locus Sonus, I focused on a theorical approach and a poetical
work : as soon as the first stream was born, i began writing on it and tried
to describe it. The more I wrote, the more the text became a variation
between sounds and words, in a form of synesthesia. This way of writing from
sounds finds an origin in the World Soundscape Project, dating back to 1975
: European Sounds Diary
(http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html<http://www.sfu.ca/%7Etruax/wsp.html>
).
The first name of my project was "The diary of streams", and it has now
became a blog, carpophores : an irregular diary of writings from listenings.
You can read carpophores here : http://carpophores.blogspot.com. Sorry it's
in french, maybe in english later.
What nature is this variation between sounds and words? Is it a loss or
a benefit, or altogether another dimension? I need less technology for
writing than is necessary for listening. What kind of questions this sort of
LoFi ask? This is what I experiment with carpophores.
I am taking part next year to an international contest of poetry : Poésie
en Val-de-Marne (http://www.biennaledespoetes.fr/). I will present
carpophores, so i will write with your sounds, your installation, your
soundscape.
The continuation of this work of course, depends on the regular presence of
your streams so I wanted to let you know that I am very gratefull when they
are available as much as possible.
I take advantage of this moment of technical upgrade to contact you.
Thanks for your participation,
Esther
Dear friends,
The new Locustream PHP config is now ready. This system automates
recognition of the streams by the soundmap. Thus you can directly
update and add documentation on your stream (descriptions, images,
etc.). This new config is intended to encourage growth of the project
by simplifying the process of adding new webmikes and locations.
In order to switch to the new soundmap, you need to fill up the on-
line form and follow the steps:
http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map/admin/
The login and password needed to create an entry are :
login : prems
psw : prems
You need to create an account (one by webmike) with your own login
and psw (keep them for next updates). Be careful, we recommand to use
as a login and password the name of your place (stream-name): for
example harbour/harbour or avatar/avatar (if the name is already
exists try another one)
The url of your stream will have this form :
http://locus.creacast.com:9001/location_streamname.ogg
Location is your town, stream-name is your place (some example:
boston_harbour.ogg / quebec_avatar.ogg / paris_18.ogg / )
This must exactly corresponds to the values you enter in your Pd patch.
The process is very simple : just enter specific informations
concerning your stream into each string, and upload images you want to.
Before finishing, you can check on the test map you'll find on the
same page, and of course don't forget to save.
The new soundmap is here:
http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map/
You can update your Pd software and your Locustream patch :
http://puredata.info/downloads (pd-extended)
http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/Locustream070414.zip
Next weeks, a stand-alone app Locus Streamer will be available for an
use on osX and Win (for simple installation in place of Pd installing
and patch downloading).
If you've got some problems or questions, send a message to the list,
we'll answer you.
We have also been busy developing the LocustreamBox : http://
vimeo.com/1650869 we hope that we will soon be handing these out to
dedicated streamers.
Best
Locus Sonus team
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