Writing Assignment by C. Romero: Five Radio Programs
The following five radio programs are working titles: NYC Weather Radio, NY Radio DJ, Radio Fairy, Radio Desires, and New School Radio Show Behind The Scenes.
NYC Weather Radio is a live web stream format in which real time data is announced through the users computer speakers. Real time data includes the current Fahrenheit temperature. A potential domain name is NYCweather-radio.com. The target audiences are NYC locals who prefer to hear the current temperature. The user scenario begins by typing the domain name and the sound automatically loads and plays the following: Welcome to NYC Weather Radio. The current temperature is 27 degrees. The announcement occurs every minute. In between these weather announcement is chill out music. My vision is to allow basic personal settings for music style and weather announcement frequency. The benefit to hearing the weather, oppose to reading, is free of visual commitment to a screen. In order to produce this back end real time data processing, I must collaborate with programmers. Also a friendly and attractive interface is important.
The next radio program, NY Radio DJs, comes from free form radio. This free form radio can deliver pod cast programming in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. This radio concept should have both web stream and pod casts because the user is encouraged to hang out on this website. A domain name idea is NYradioDJs.com. There are two audiences. One group of audience are DJs who live in NYC and the other audience are listeners of the DJs and site. Proposed interactions are the following: a DJ chat room, a calendar for DJs to announce where they will be performing or playing, a place to upload pod casts music mix, DJ mix contests, and DJ battles. In order to produce this interactive website, I must work with programmers and DJs.
The third radio concept is based on fictional audio books. Radio Fairy will have pre recorded production produced into pod casts. A potential domain idea name is Radio-fairy.com because the second word is a hint that the content will include magical creatures, possibly nomes, unicorns, half bird half man, dwarfs, elves, leprechauns, sea monsters, and other mythological breeds. This radio drama mainly depends on dialogue, sound effects, and music to tell the story. In one of my experiements, I collaborated with a Lang student and produced a 20-minute story, Fairy Finders. It is a fictional story between two sisters. In order to produce this audio storytelling, I must work with fictional writers. The targeted audiences are people who enjoy legendary creatures as an audiotistic sound narration.
The fourth thesis idea is Radio Desire, a music program. Radio Desire is a web stream format in which hand selected DJs play romance theme music, top 40, 90s, 80s, and classic love songs. The music programming is themed around desires between lovers. The audience can interact by sending a song request via the web. In between every 30 minutes of music, a break occurs and sample poetic message reads: “hullo hullo I would like to be on the clear other side of the earth the tips of your breasts have the color and the taste of that earth hullo hullo one more night there is rain and its gravediggers fingers there is rain putting its foot in its mouth on the roofs the rain ate the sun with chopsticks hullo hullo the enlargement of the crystals that’s you…” In order to produce this, I need writers or poets to assist in producing love messages. I probably will post on craigslist, around campus, and poet lounges. The target audience are love couples.
The last radio idea is examining the makings of a college radio station, New School Radio. It’s called New School Radio Show Behind The Scenes. It is a radio show that documents how New School Radio is growing. New School Radio is a newly develop radio concept at Parsons. It is collaboration between Parsons Communication Design Technology, Jazz, and the Eugene lang. From our perspectives as students we examine it’s current form and potential direction it encounters. In this episode we have the opportunity to interview the political makers of WNSR: Jane Pirone, Donna Lichaw, Jim Briggs, and Sarah Montague. In order to produce this, I must collaborate with these professors, and peers involved in WNSR. The targeted audience are students and faculty.
Of all these radio concepts, I admit that I favor the New York Radio DJs because of my history as a DJ. At the last semester ‘s presentation, the critiques suggested, “follow your bliss,” at least 5 times to me. So by developing NYradioDJs.com, I would be following my bliss because I love being a DJ and now I can own and build this DJ empire. On the other hand, what seems the most practical is the NYC Weather Radio, because it informs users an up to date fact. This weather information will probably assist in making decisions such as how to dress, how to travel, and possibly what to plan for. But quite often living in facts feels very dry, which is why I would produce radio-fairy.com, a series of pod casts that tell stories of fictional creatures. Here in the world of sound design, the imagination roams creatively and freely. But this does not answer too well a question I get during my presentations, what is the human condition of your project? I responded, we are by nature, loving seeking creatures. Radio Desires plays on the human condition of love communication. It is this desire to communicate passion and love in creative methods. This which leads me to the program I enrolled, Communication Design Technology. Last Fall 2008, the WNSR New School Radio collaboration has led me a full tank of motivation to theoretically produce. This essay ends with a quote by Douglass Kahn, “The reason to pursue radio space is to create theoretical electro locality where objects and bodies interact more in a social world and less in a sophistic one of the artistic romance or marketing.”
