[spectre] HONF - DeadMediaFM

[venzha christ]

TUNE IN ALIVE AND ACTIVE MEDIA

DeadMediaFM is A-live-Media! 

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) together with DeadMediaFM 
are proudly announced a regular online radio live stream program.
The regular online streaming radio could be followed everyday by anyone
in the world with internet access. Most of the daily program are stream
directly from HONF lab in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The regular program
was an output from a cross-collaborative community works between DeadMediaFM 
and HONF since 2008.

The collaboration started when HONF invited Budi Prakosa, Ignatius Aditya
and Eka Jayani Ayuningtyas from DeadMediaFM to participate in YIVF#04:
Out Of It - Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival, 2008 (http://natural-fiber.com/yivf).
Their participation in the festival opened knowledge exchange
discussion between DeadMediaFM and HONF and after intensive exchange,
both communities started to work together in several projects. By
integrating each specialties of the communities, the projects began to
evolve to a more constructive projects with mutual objective. 

In Cellsbutton#03: Our Destitute Nation - Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival 2009
(http://natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton),
HONF invited several creative communities to give presentation about
their projects and activities in a 100 second presentation session
(http://natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=60&Itemid=82&limitstart=12).
This session was initiated by HONF to explore local potential from
creative communities in Yogyakarta. In the session, DeadMediaFM was
presenting the development of podcast and online streaming in Indonesia 
where they were one of the first few community to start and develop as
an online radio. Several challenge and difficulties from DeadMediaFM
was infrastructure situation and condition in Indonesia that is not
supportive for them to broadcast regularly. Realizing the huge
potential from DeadMediaFM, HONF initiated a collaboration between the
both communities to create a regular daily program that aimed on young
listeners and internet users to access alternative music program from
all around the world. Through the open-community method, in YIVF#05:
Invisible Video - Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival 2009 (http://invisible.natural-fiber.com/news), 
DeadMediaFM became part of HONF that actively involved in HONF activities.

The main objective from creating the regular daily program was to provide
access to alternative music programs, promoting local musicians and
also promoting Indonesian music movements for global society. The
programs seeks local and international independent music movement and 
provide the society with updated information which everyone with
internet access for free. The daily activities also provide beneficial
inputs and outputs for individuals in HONF open-community that is
interested in online radio stream, independent/alternative music
platforms and radio broadcast. A learning-by-doing method has proven to
be the best method in exploring and extracting local potential while a
collaboration encourage ideas in to actions.

DeadMediaFM is Act-ions on Media! (Brief History of DeadMediaFM)
Starting off as a small community (Budi Prakosa, Ignatius Aditya,
Eka Jayani Ayuningtyas and Muhammad Ridho) with high interest in
alternative music, DeadMediaFM was established in January 2007 as one
of Indonesia’s the first podcast website. Through the internet, they
has been documenting the local and international independent music
movements, discovering and promoting new musicians by providing songs,
interviews, info, and live videos which anyone can download for free.
In addition, they also give interviews, gig reports and videos from the
local alternative music scene in Yogyakarta. 

In June 2007, DeadMediaFM started to transform as an online radio on the internet,
managed and organized by the community itself in their activities. They
began to produce broadcasting programs by using their own resources
that was collected from every member of the community, they managed to
create their own website as a portal of information for the public to
access. Their programs was still irregular and promoted using
mailing-list to inform their schedule and try to invite new listeners
to their broadcast programs.

In 2009, DeadMediaFM started to develop their activities by sharing their
knowledge with local students in Indonesia. They gave workshops on how
to make independent radio and podcast with their own computers and internet connection. 
One of their workshops was built by collaboration with London School Of Public
Relation where the workshop is open with public and international
students in Indonesia follow their workshop that was held in Jakarta.
They also began to collaborate with HONF in making simple workshops on
podcast and online radio that is open for the society of Yogyakarta.

Not only creating workshops, DeadMediaFM also created music events to
promote national independent musicians to Yogyakarta music scene. In
2007, they held an event called "Dead Cover Version" in Kinoki
Yogyakarta which invited various artists to play in the event with
performing cover version of the musicians that influential to their own
music. This event also contained independent movie screening. In 2008,
"Pesona Nada Senja 1" invites national independent artists to perform together with local
Yogyakarta musicians. DeadMediaFM held this event as an alternative
independent showcase to exclusively present national musicians in a
professional concert. Their success continued in 2009 where they held
the second edition of the event which called "Pesona Nada Senja 2". In
this event DeadMediaFM also invited experimental electronic musicians
from Indonesia to perform in Yogyakarta.

In technical, DeadMediaFM use Liquidsoap (http://savonet.sourceforge.net) 
software for open source audio automation. For streaming media server, 
they use Icecast (http://www.icecast.org) software and Erlyvideo.org 
for Real Time Messaging Protocol to streaming audio and video directly from the server. 
To bridge digital connection between both software, DeadMediaFM use Nodejs (http://nodejs.org).
Currently DeadMediaFM is trying to build their own free software for
everyone to use in order directly connected to DeadMediaFM broadcast.

Staffed and helped out by a motley assortment of geek, nerd, crooks, scenester,
clubber, ethnomusicology student, bedroom musicians, real musician and
random friends from all over the world, they have been bringing fresh
music to fellow music lovers ever since. They focus on budding
newcomers as well as artists who are worth noticing despite the scarce
attention they get from the mainstream media. With the collaboration
with The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) they managed to do projects
together and creating mutual beneficial outputs. In 2009, after several
projects together with HONF, DeadMediaFM became a part of HONF
open-community, doing their programs regularly in HONF daily
activities. Their programs are not only specifically on alternative
music but also covering the development of media, art, society, science
and technology. Bellow listed daily regular broadcast schedule of DeadMediaFM.

Online Schedule:
Monday
00.00 - 21.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
21.00 - 24.00 Playlist Experimental: experimental music streaming, 
broadcaster: Individual Distortion (Jakarta, Indonesia)
24.00 - 02.00 Blue Monday: chill out playlist, light chit chat on daily issues 
broadcaster: Ignatius Aditya (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Tuesday
02.00 - 21.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
21.00 - 24.00 Fakin' Malam Fakin' Asik: Local scene issue, social criticism.
broadcaster: Ade Greden, Argha Mahendra and Hamam Firdaus (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Wednesday
00.00 - 20.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
20.00 - 22.00 Underground Party 1970 - 2010 (punkrock/metal/extreme music)
broadcaster: Firman and Ridho Indra (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Thursday
00.00 - 21.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
21.00 - 24.00 thusdayLUSH: chit chat with local artists
broadcaster: various and irregular broadcaster (open broadcast)

Friday
00.00 - 19.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
19.00 - 23.00 BREAKCORE_LABS online stream, experimental electronic music 
(http://breakcorelabs.wordpress.com)
broadcaster: Julian 'Togar' Abraham(Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Saturday
00.00 - 17.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
17.00 - 24.00 Disko playlists and mix-tapes from various international DJs 

Sunday
00.00 - 20.00 nonstop music stream, playlist selected by DeadMediaFM
20.00 - 24.00 Open Broadcast/Free Learning Radio/Band Interview

Podcast Contents:
1. Regular playlist
2. Interviews
3. Gigs reviews
4. Open contributors 


DeadMediaFM is Too(Ned) In! (How to follow DeadMediaFM broadcast)

Any listener from anywhere with internet connection could follow online
stream and download podcast from DeadMediaFM by opening their website 
(http://deadmediafm.org). They could also simply click http://listen.deadmediafm.org 
to automatically follow the stream with various MP3 softwares that support live stream installed 
on their computers.




 
 

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