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Calling All Agents
International Necronautical Society (INS) Broadcasting Unit
Institute of Contemporary Arts London
87.7 FM in London and www.necronauts.org worldwide, 24 hrs
daily
8-13 April 2004
The Scripts and Transcripts
INS Radio output was configured according to the protocols
developed by INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy in his Report
Calling
All Agents: Transmission, Death, Technology (December
2003). For each transmission session, a theme was set by the
INS Communication and Encoding Subcommittee. Dactylographic
assistants were then assigned posts from which to harvest
lines of text that fell within the theme's parameters. The
texts, garnered from live radio, television, fax and telephone
transmissions, as well as newspaper, internet, book and archival
media, were projected onto the walls of the transmission room
by means of overhead projectors. As they thus appeared, they
were re-entered into a laptop by a secretary seated at the
Communication and Encoding Subcommittee Table (C.E.S.T.) and
printed out, as a single long stream of text, for C.E.S.T.
officials' scrutiny. These officials then decided upon which
metrical and rhythmical procedures to bring to bear on the
text streams, and cut them up and reassembled them according
to the rules of this procedure, thus producing final broadcast
scripts. These scripts were given transmission clearance and
then carried up to the radio booth where they were broadcast
over the airwaves in London and streamed to collaborating
radio stations worldwide.
The INS Communication and Encoding Subcommittee will publish
full transcripts of all INS Broadcasts at a later date. For
the present, it has been decided that a single session's script
will be made available for public scrutiny.
Click to view script (PDF)
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