Sound jams: infomercials from the future - Revision history

Alnik at 19:58, 10 September 2024

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			Sound Jams is a series of collective audio-makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In the series of "Infomercials from the future", the groups create an audio collage of infomercials on a particular topic. The makers are led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Indiecon 2024 </span>==		== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Indiecon 2024 </span>==

Alnik: /* _at Indiecon 2024 */

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_at Indiecon 2024

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	// part of Indiecon 2024, an independent publishing festival in Oberhafen, Hamburg, Germany.		// part of Indiecon 2024, an independent publishing festival in Oberhafen, Hamburg, Germany.

	Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

	=== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>===		=== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>===
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	▶▶ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17RpLasAeIgOJ9JtZPfTaqxvyiDZRKugi/view?usp=sharing listen here]		▶▶ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17RpLasAeIgOJ9JtZPfTaqxvyiDZRKugi/view?usp=sharing listen here]


	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==		== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==

Alnik at 19:56, 10 September 2024

2024-09-10T19:56:58Z

Alnik: /* _context */

2024-09-10T19:56:07Z

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			[[File:Indiecon workshop.jpg\|thumb\|Infomercials from the future: Indiecon edition]]
	With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.		With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.

Alnik at 19:54, 10 September 2024

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	Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.		Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>==		=== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>===
	With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.		With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.

			=== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _infomercial </span>===

			It's 2044. The ways of publishing content are somehow limited. However, we want to focus on the positive parts of creating with limitations - awareness, consciousness about resources, creativity, and collectiveness:

			<span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #ff0033; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;">Positive Reduction </span><br>
			▶▶ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17RpLasAeIgOJ9JtZPfTaqxvyiDZRKugi/view?usp=sharing listen here]


	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==		== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==

Alnik: /* _context */

2024-09-10T19:50:40Z

_context

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	~~[[File:Zinecamp-planning-workshop.jpg\|thumb\|notebook notes when planning the workshop]]~~
	With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.		With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.


	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==		== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Zine Camp 2023 </span>==

Alnik at 19:50, 10 September 2024

2024-09-10T19:50:30Z

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	Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.		Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

			== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>==
			[[File:Zinecamp-planning-workshop.jpg\|thumb\|notebook notes when planning the workshop]]
			With this sound jam, I wanted to raise attention to the sonic format and create an accessible entry to publishers and makers who are not used to work with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a fun that is easy and fun to make. Since the festival was about independent publishing, I decided to invite the participants to speculate about the future of publishing and what limitations we might face 20 years from now.

Alnik at 19:47, 10 September 2024

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			== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _at Indiecon 2024 </span>==
			// part of Indiecon 2024, an independent publishing festival in Oberhafen, Hamburg, Germany.

			Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines makings that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.


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	[[File:Zine camp 2023 - sound jam.png\|thumb\|the workshop promotion visual]]		[[File:Zine camp 2023 - sound jam.png\|thumb\|the workshop promotion visual]]
	<span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #ff0033; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> Workshop // Sound Jam: Infomercials Audiozine Making</span>		<span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #ff0033; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> Workshop // Sound Jam: Infomercials Audiozine Making</span>
	// part of ▶▶[https://zinecamp2023.hotglue.me/?workshops Zine Camp 2023]. A free festival to make zines and friends @ Worm, Rotterdam, NL.		// part of ▶▶[https://zinecamp2023.hotglue.me/?workshops Zine Camp 2023]. A free festival to make zines and friends @ Worm, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

	Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines making that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.		Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines making that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

Alnik at 19:45, 10 September 2024

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	[[File:Zine camp 2023 - sound jam.png\|thumb\|the workshop promotion visual]]		[[File:Zine camp 2023 - sound jam.png\|thumb\|the workshop promotion visual]]
	<span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #ff0033; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> Workshop // Sound Jam: Infomercials Audiozine Making</span>		<span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #ff0033; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> Workshop // Sound Jam: Infomercials Audiozine Making</span>

Alnik: /* _workshop report */

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_workshop report

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	'''_infomercials making''' // ~40 min //		'''_infomercials making''' // ~40 min //
	people formed groups of 2-3 people and worked on their infomercials. The task was to record a 1-minute-max audio infomercial about 1 resource that is limited. They were invited to pick up the papers from the brainstorming; to simply use their phones or the equipment I've brought.		we listened to three examples of infomercials as an inspiration; then people formed groups of 2-3 people and worked on their infomercials. The task was to record a 1-minute-max audio infomercial about 1 resource that is limited. They were invited to pick up the papers from the brainstorming; to simply use their phones or the equipment I've brought.

	'''_listening party''' // ~10 min //		'''_listening party''' // ~10 min //

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	Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines making that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.		Sound Jams is a series of collective audiozines making that artist and facilitator Ål Nik hosts with the aim to inspire makers to play with the sonic format in their work. In this workshop, the group will create an audio collage of infomercials. The makers will be led through a playful process of doodling, writing and experimenting with alternative reality speculations, turning them into fun and short radio commercials.

	== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>==		=== <span style="color: white; font-family: Menlo; text-decoration:none; background-color: #0033ff; padding-top: 0.1vw; padding-bottom: 0.1vw; padding-left: 0.1vw; padding-right: 0.2vw;"> _context </span>===
	[[File:Zinecamp-planning-workshop.jpg\|thumb\|notebook notes when planning the workshop]]		[[File:Zinecamp-planning-workshop.jpg\|thumb\|notebook notes when planning the workshop]]
	With this sound jam, I wanted to facilitate a playful way of discussing a serious topic and addressing it with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a format we used for our graduation radio show at XPUB. A few months ago, I got a theme as a prompt from the Zine Camp organisers - access. Thus, I was thinking what if we speculate about access to resources. I wanted to think a little but about the future and was curious how would a group of (most likely) strangers would think of it.		With this sound jam, I wanted to facilitate a playful way of discussing a serious topic and addressing it with sound. For it, I decided to invite the participants to make infomercials - a format we used for our graduation radio show at XPUB. A few months ago, I got a theme as a prompt from the Zine Camp organisers - access. Thus, I was thinking what if we speculate about access to resources. I wanted to think a little but about the future and was curious how would a group of (most likely) strangers would think of it.
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	''informercial'' - an advertising which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style. [source: Oxford Languages]		''informercial'' - an advertising which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style. [source: Oxford Languages]

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	[[File:Audiozines-making.jpg\|thumb\|during the workshop, we speculated about which resources could be somehow limited in the future]]		[[File:Audiozines-making.jpg\|thumb\|during the workshop, we speculated about which resources could be somehow limited in the future]]

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	we listened the 3 infomercials altogether; and had a short discussion about the process; getting also feedback about the workshop.		we listened the 3 infomercials altogether; and had a short discussion about the process; getting also feedback about the workshop.

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	It's 2044. Some of the resources commonly known in 2023 are quite scarce now. The access to them is somehow limited and/or regulated. Here are some infomercials to shine some light on the current circumstances these days:		It's 2044. Some of the resources commonly known in 2023 are quite scarce now. The access to them is somehow limited and/or regulated. Here are some infomercials to shine some light on the current circumstances these days:
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	▶▶ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fnx2yCCarle07CN3FlchA_3GD3LUWBIf/view?usp=drive_link listen here]		▶▶ [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fnx2yCCarle07CN3FlchA_3GD3LUWBIf/view?usp=drive_link listen here]

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	'''_resources''' // During the preparation of the workshop, I was also speculating about what kind of resources could be limited and what ones will come out from the participants' minds. Just a little over a week before the workshop, I actually had a situation with limitation to a core resource I use every day - internet (my wifi at home was dead for a few days). I was working on a freelance project that required me to join an online video call and then upload a number of heavy design files. I carefully planned to do the job during the day while working from a cafe, but of course - I had make more edits in the evening. Since this whole work was with deadline "yesterday", I really didn't want to wait until the morning to upload them again, but I knew I had to use my roaming data (that I pay for each mb used...). For a couple of days, it really felt like 20+ years ago, or maybe 20 years ahead...		'''_resources''' // During the preparation of the workshop, I was also speculating about what kind of resources could be limited and what ones will come out from the participants' minds. Just a little over a week before the workshop, I actually had a situation with limitation to a core resource I use every day - internet (my wifi at home was dead for a few days). I was working on a freelance project that required me to join an online video call and then upload a number of heavy design files. I carefully planned to do the job during the day while working from a cafe, but of course - I had make more edits in the evening. Since this whole work was with deadline "yesterday", I really didn't want to wait until the morning to upload them again, but I knew I had to use my roaming data (that I pay for each mb used...). For a couple of days, it really felt like 20+ years ago, or maybe 20 years ahead...