sounds from near and far

Curated by Chris Byrne and Colin Fallows

Internet audio artstreams connecting Sofia, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Sound works from artists from the UK, Bulgaria and across the globe on the theme of the translocal: travel, crossing borders, migration, sounds of different cultures and environments.

Presented as part of Digital Weekend, a festival of digital culture organised by Iliyana Nedkova in collaboration with the Red House Centre for Culture & Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria and Interspace Media Art Center. For more details on the Digital Weekend, visit the Red House web site:

http://www.redhouse-sofia.org

Internet audio streaming took place throughout Sofia Digital Weekend, 12 - 14 April 2002. Broadcasts were presented at venues including the British Council and extracts broadcast on Radio France International Sofia, 103.6FM.

sounds from near and far featured as part of Radio Remote Control, organised by Colin Fallows during the Liverpool Biennial, October 2002.

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artstream: technical requirements

You will need:

- a reasonably fast computer (Pentium or PowerPC processor recommended)
- some spare RAM
- at least a 56K modem connection to the Internet

To listen to audio you will need:

- an audio player capable of playing mp3 streams such as WinAmp, iTunes or XMMS
- an audio card installed in your computer

Most mp3 players are available free or as low-cost shareware. Follow the links below to download the recommended software for your operating system.

To watch video you will need:

- Quicktime or Windows Media Player

Most media players are available free or as low-cost shareware. Follow the links below to download the recommended software for your operating system.

 

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artstream: technical details

artstream is run using free software. We stream video and audio clips from our Linux based Apache web server. Live mp3 audio is streamed from an Intel architecture server running Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org which utilises LAME www.sulaco.org/mp3/ and Icecast www.icecast.org to stream mp3 audio.