Just like Wikileaks, Inculeaks brings important news and information to the public through Radio! Inculeaks gives the Incubate audience a new role as creative participator and functions as a constant leak of information sent straight from the Incubate audience, to the Incubate audience.

Inculeaks collaborates with radio stations, radio makers, artists, musicians and people with a interest in Independent Culture which provide us with their own audio files, and with that, leak their personal interests on Inculeaks. Inculeaks will air 24/7 during the Incubate festival in the local Ether in Tilburg and live-stream on our website.

Leading up to the festival we are going to do lot of interviews. With (Inculeaks) radio makers, artists, DJ’s and also the people involved with Incubate. In this edition we’ve got Leilani from Cease & Desist; The Myopic Narrative for you.

1.    Can you please introduce yourself?
Heyo, I’m Leilani Trowell from the United States. I’ve been a resident of Tilburg for almost two years; moving here after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During my university years, I did a short stint at the campus radio station WXYC (http://www.wxyc.org). This particular radio station has been running for over 30 years and is, according to that once-popular family show, Jeopardy, the 1st radio station to start streaming 24-hours on the internet. They really emphasized music education and exploring different forms of music. Which can be hard to do in a town like Chapel Hill that’s culturally obsessed with indie rock. In my personal musical quest, I discovered that the noisier forms particularly resonate with me and that’s how I came to meet my husband, Steffan de Turck, while he was touring with Wouter Jaspers in 2008.

2.    What can we expect of your Radio show on Inculeaks?
I have only 2 interviews lined up in my 4 scheduled shows. On 13 September, I will interview my friend, Mike Brennan from Philadelphia to discuss those things the incubated are talking about this year. Among his many achievements, he has recently helped organize the Philadelphia event for Random Hacks of Kindness which gets technical developers in the same room as field experts to design and implement software solutions to humanitarian, human rights and sustainability problems. My 2nd interview on the 14th will be with former WXYC music director and still active DJ, David Strader to discuss radio, radio makers and open-source.

Other than that, listeners can expect the same sort of free-form radio making that I once did and still love. I’ve never been one to hold onto genres or themes. Although for the past couple of years, I’ve been listening to a lot of no-wave, Italo-disco and 90’s new jack swing when I’m not noise-ing out. Most likely, I’ll be having my own private dance parties in the radio booth.

3.    In what way does Open Source affect you as a Radio maker?
I’m not currently doing radio and the WXYC music library was vast enough that I hardly ever brought anything along to my shows. However, I did make a lot of use out of sites like last.fm to surf through tags and other user-generated categories and radio shows to discover new artists and adding new, sometimes useless phrases to my vocabulary. Such as, new weird America, new rave,  future garage, kitchencore, darkstep, ghoststep, post-dubstep, pop structure, protopunk, etc. In this way, my own musical knowledge and palate, naturally, would influence my radio making.

4.    Do you notice a difference in participation (interactivity) when you look at Radio nowadays? Where do you think this comes from?
I guess it depends on what sort of radio station we’re talking about. If I start to listening to one of the 3 national Dutch stations, the personalities, the set-up and music rotations are still quite similar to the stations I listened to as a child in North Carolina. However, WXYC had it’s own dynamic scene associated with it; which isn’t so unlikely with university activities. DJ’s lived together, ate together, organized events together, partied together, made out on the dirty couch in the rock room, etc. One could say that it was a very insular subculture but WXYC and our shared love for music got us together. But I look back on those days with fondness. I also wore some really awesome outfits.

5.    What are your plans for the (near) future?
I don’t have so much plans as rather dreams. I see my time here in Tilburg as temporary but I’m enjoying the learning experience – speaking Dutch, working with the Dutch, being ignored and yelled at by the Dutch (“DAT MAG NIET!!”). Maybe Den Haag will finally let me work as a nurse. I’ve been waiting for 2 years. Eventually, I’d like to go back to the States and go to grad school for Medical Anthropology. While I was getting my bachelors’, I worked in Mexico and Guatemala since my academic sights were trained on Mesoamerica. Being in Europe has turned everything upside down so I’m still trying to figure out what to do.