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This project has been funded with support
from the European Commision.
[English version below]
Donnerstag, 20. November, 20:00 Uhr, Bootlab, Ziegelstr. 20, Berlin
100 Tage live on air in Berlin, von Februar bis April 2004.
Benedetti (TwenFM) einige Fakten zur aktuellen Berliner Medien-
Politik zwischen Piraten- und Format-Radio zusammenfassen, Diana
mit lokalen und internationalen KontributorInnen reboot.fm
das Betreiben eines Radios bedeutet.
unserer Website nach:
http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/about/project/index.about
Anregungen aller Art. Schliesslich soll reboot.fm in den kommenden
Monaten genauso Euer Projekt werden, wie es "unseres" ist.
Alice & Bob (micromusic.net) DJ Anna (AmSTARt) geben -- wer also mehr
an der Party-Seite von reboot.fm interessiert ist, ist ebenso
willkommen.
Bis dann,
Eure reboot.fm Crew
http://reboot.fm
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Thursday, November 20, 2003, 20:00, Bootlab, Ziegelstr. 20, Berlin
Bootlab kindly invites you to the launch of the reboot.fm project:
a full 100 days of FM radio in Berlin, beginning in February 2004.
A series of short introductions to reboot.fm will be given by
several people involved in the organizazion of the project:
Pit Schultz (Klubradio) will present the radio model we are developing
for reboot.fm, Sacha Benedetti (TwenFM) will give an overview
about current Berlin media politics between pirate and format
radio, Diana McCarty (bootlab) will focus on how reboot.fm is
going to collaborate with both local and international contibutors,
and Sebastian Luetgert (Partner gegen Berlin) will try to explain
what the current copyright frenzy means for running a radio.
A general overview is already available on our website: just go to
http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/about/project/index.about
What we're most interested in is of course your input -- so on
Thursday, we will not only try to answer your questions, but also
consider any suggestions you may have. In the end, reboot.fm will
hopefully be as much your project as it is "ours".
For the rest of the evening, we will have a bar and several DJs
Alice & Bob (micromusic.net) DJ Anna (AmSTARt), so if you're more
interested in the party side of reboot.fm, you're very welcome as well.
See you,
the reboot.fm crew
http://reboot.fm
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reboot.fm [English version below]
reboot: ein System neu starten, das nicht mehr funktioniert
100 Tage Radio - Berlin 2004
wird. Das Radio wird organisiert von mehreren Initiativen aus dem
Bootlab(2) und dessen Umgebung, und produziert von einer Vielzahl
Projekts: den Radiosender zu etablieren, der in Berlin so offensichtlich
tun, was Formatradio nicht erlaubt: Themen zu featuren, die sich in 30
Sekunden nicht abhandeln lassen, Stimmen zu Wort kommen zu lassen, die
mehr zu sagen haben als bloss die letzten Staumeldungen, und Musik zu
Hits vergangener Dekaden.
Wireless peer-to-peer Local Area Radio
Reboot.fm vertraut auf die Geschichte des Radios und ist davon
rotierender Playlists hinausgeht. Radio war das Internet der
Zwanziger(4), das Napster der Achtziger(5), und ist auch heute noch das
Nachrichten zu verbreiten und Musik zu spielen.
Reboot.fm baut dabei auf zehn Jahre Internet-Wissen auf und ist somit
ganz konkret mit dem Netz verbunden. Das bedeutet mehr als bloss den
obligatorischen Live-Stream: es heisst vielmehr, das Netz als ein
Austausch zu verwenden. Reboot.fm basiert auf bereits existierenden
potentielle Radio-Shows herstellen, und stellt sowohl eine Infrastruktur
die Resonanz gibt, die sie verdienen.
Reboot.fm ist auch ein Software-Entwicklungs-Projekt(6), und als solches
wird von den Technologien bestimmt, die zu seiner Herstellung verwendet
Unter Freier Software verstehen wir mehr als bloss eine transparentere,
Programmen. Jenseits dieser offensichtlichen Vorteile weiss Freie
Software davon, dass alle Software soziale Software ist: sie formt die
Arbeitsbedingungen ihrer BenutzerInnen. Statt also die technologischen
das Ziel, ein System zu entwickeln, das sowohl individuelle als auch
des Radiobetriebs. Ja, die Software wird kostenlos sein. Ja, jeder
Reboot.fm ist nicht zuletzt Teil der Auseinandersetzung um den freien
Austausch kultureller Daten und gegen restriktive Copyright-Modelle. Wir
sind sie ganz und gar selbst in der Lage.
Verwertung unbezahlter Radio-Arbeit verhindert, den Austausch von
arbeiten ein einer Syndication-Plattform, die es Radio-Redakteuren
Schliesslich produzieren Radios nicht nur Live-Programm, sondern auch
grossartige Archive - und wir sehen nicht ein, warum diese aus
Frei wie freier Markt, offen wie offenes Bier
Professionalismus kommerzieller Radios vermeiden, ohne selbst
amateurhaft zu klingen?
Sobald diese Fragen aufkommen, wissen wir, dass wir eher an Problemen
Auswahl von Nachrichten und Musik wird sich von anderen Sendern
unterscheiden; sie werden nicht nach definierten Regeln voneinander
notwendig halten. Einige Moderatoren werden zu schnell sprechen, einige
Platten werden zerkratzt sein, und vermutlich werden viele Dinge
passieren, die normalerweise nicht im Radio passieren. Als ein Ganzes
(1)http://reboot.fm
(2)http://bootlab.org
(3)http://juniradio.net
(4)http://juniradio.net/main.php?page=texts&file=brecht_bertolt_-_the_radio_as_an_apparatus_of_communication.txt
(5)http://juniradio.net/main.php?page=texts&file=lovink_geert_-_hoer_zu_oder_stirb.txt
(6)http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/software/modules/index.soft
(7)http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/open-archive/exchange/index.open
Bundes
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reboot.fm [German version above]
reboot - to restart a system that is not working anymore
100 days of radio - Berlin 2004
Reboot.fm(1) is an independent radio station that is going to broadcast
on 104.1 FM in Berlin, February through April 2004, 24 hours a day. The
radio is being organized by several initiatives and individuals at and
around Bootlab(2), and it will be produced by a variety of local and
international contributors. If you like, you are welcome to join.
Not even a year after Juniradio(3), reboot.fm is the second phase of a
larger project: to establish the radio station that Berlin is so
obviously missing -- the one that doesn't suck. The aim is to do just
about everything that format radio does not allow: to feature issues
that matter more than just for 30 seconds, to give room to voices that
have more to tell than just the latest traffic jams, and to play music
that is actually happening, not just jukeboxes filled with the greatest
hits of past decades.
Wireless peer-to-peer local area radio
Reboot.fm believes in the history of radio, and is certain that it has
more potential than just to broadcast junk. Radio was the Internet of
the Twenties(4), the Napster of the Eighties(5), and even today it is
still the medium of choice for any local scene that has different news
to tell and different music to play.
Reboot.fm is based on a decade of Internet knowlegde, and thus literally
connected to the net. This means more than just the obligatory live
stream: it means using the net as a tool for decentralized,
collaborative production and exchange. Reboot.fm relies on existing
local nodes, in Berlin and elsewhere,that are already producing
potential radio shows in abundance, and provides both an infrastucture
to make them audible and a context to give them the resonance they
deserve.
Free Software for Open Radios
Reboot.fm is also a software development project(6), and as such, it is
to commercial radio software what Control-Alt-Delete is to the average
Windows computer: a reboot from scratch. Every product is determined by
the technologies that are used to create it, and thus we believe that
talking about Free Radio is impossible without talking about Open
Source.
We think of Free Software as more than just a more transparent, more
inclusive, more secure and cheaper alternative to closed, commercial
code. Beyond these obvious advantages, Free Software takes into account
that all software is social software: the structures it creates shape
the working environment of its users.
So, rather than to reproduce the technological restrictions that reduce
the job of most radio editors to the administration of an auto-pilot,
the aim is to make available a system that allows both individual and
collective decisions at any stage of the process. Yes, it going to be
free. Yes, you can mess around with it. And yes, it will just work.
Listening to the radio is stealing music
Reboot.fm is, last but not least, part of the struggle for the free
exchange of cultural data and against restrictive copyright models. We
are convinced that neither radio producers nor radio listeners need
Rights Management Systems imposed on them that decide what they are
allowed to copy, download, play or listen to -- they are perfectly
capable of managing all that on their own.
For reboot.fm, we are developing a licensing model(7) that will keep
commercial stations from making money from your unpaid work, but will
allow the distribution of programs among independent radios all over the
world. We are planning to set up a syndication network that will allow
radio editors to browse, preview, download and rebroadcast any radio
program whose original creator has agreed to make it distributable. In
the end, radios do not only produce live broadcasts, but also great
archives -- and we don't see how these can be legally bound to just
gather dust.
Free as in free market, open as in open beer
Reboot.fm is aware of the contradictions that surround it: How can you
keep a radio free without relying on endless hours of unpaid work? How
can you keep a radio open without just broadcasting any random piece of
nonsense? And how can you deny the professionalism of commercial radio
without sounding amateurish?
When it comes down to these questions, we know that we are working on
problems, not on solutions. The best result that we can imagine is a
radio that makes audible the very conditions under which it is produced.
The selection of news and music will differ from other stations, they
will not be separated from each other according to a strict set of
rules, but mixed just as people think it is appropriate. Some moderators
will talk to fast, some records will have scratches, and a lot of things
will happen that normally never happen on the radio. As a whole,
Reboot.fm will be a radio that has edges, and that's not really
something we intend to fix.
(1)http://reboot.fm
(2)http://bootlab.org
(3)http://juniradio.net
(4)http://juniradio.net/main.php?page=texts&file=brecht_bertolt_-_the_radio_as_an_apparatus_of_communication.txt
(5)http://juniradio.net/main.php?page=texts&file=lovink_geert_-_hoer_zu_oder_stirb.txt
(6)http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/software/modules/index.soft
(7)http://reboot.fm/index.cgi/open-archive/exchange/index.open
Reboot.fm - a project at Bootlab, funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
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