Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:31:15 -0400 (EDT)


Alastair wrote:

<<
>Reminded me very much to some topics of this list, links to some english       
>activities of the thirties: a book with 100 people who say exactely how they   
>get their money and how they spend it                                          
<...>
That project was more focussed on the economic problems at the margins          
that the 1930s Mass Observation project to which Heiko was alluding.            
  >>

Oh, it was more pars pro toto, sotosay from Enos british isles and on reality..

But there are differences. Thanks.

<<
Incidentally, I submitted some notes on how my day was spent to a recent        
projects, on May Day 1998.  My notes concerned a day spent with my son,         
doing home education, discussing our local football team's ongoing              
struggle to avoid relegation (which failed), etc - resolutely avoiding          
any pretence at epiphany and hence not, I think, used on the collated           
and edited web pages...                                                         
  >>

So this was less reality and more "arty".......what a change !!

In the early 80s, when private radio was introduced here, I tried to realise
something called Teleforum, 10 telephon lines, where the 10th kicks the first 
out etc, and a radiotransmitter. No agenda setting. No fixed topic. Listening
radio and calling a number, number of the device, to say something, make
sounds, noise, whatever. I think somebody in the states did something like
this in the same time, probably in the Boston area. I dont know waht happened
there.

Everybody whom I spoke to about my project started brabling about Brechts
Radio theory, something I didnt like. I wanted it to be just ordinary radio,
not a single happeninmg or whatever. Wasnt realised, of cause, some people
liked it, was discussed at some conference, because it was interesting but
didnt fit into the legal framework. Unmoderated, chain reactions ??
Today, we see such experiments with less interest, but it makes a difference
if you use a computer to write in Usenet or if you can speak to an audience
in real time. 

Heiko




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