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. 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, 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 inIndonesia 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 software for open source audio automation. For streaming media server, they use Icecast 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. Currently DeadMediaFM is trying to build their own free software for everyone to use in order directly connected to DradMediaFM 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

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 such as iTunes, Winamp, Jukebox, etc. This link also available for mobile devices such as BlackBerry and iPhones.