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1. They Were There When the Noise Started

   How does the human voice haunt our technology? This piece explores the idea of voice as contagion and the “sonic spectre”—a concept connected to how sound has infiltrated our technologies in surprising and magical ways. A path is traced from poltergeist events and the talking dolls of Thomas Edison into the work of Richard Gagnon, inventor of the Votrax text-to-speech synthesizer. The Votrax voice, modelled on Gagnon’s own, spread through electronic music and pop culture, clandestinely weaving itself into the music of Kraftwerk, educational robots, and classic arcade games. The soundtrack makes use of samples recovered from a Votrax speech board and archival recordings discovered within the speech synthesis archives at the Smithsonian Institution. These same samples have also been time-stretched into ambient tones. 

   [Source: The New River]

   Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:33

2. Kinesics of Letters

   Four video letters sent once a month. The letters consist of visual and generative poetry from the trapped situation where we had to find new ways to be humans between virtual and actual reality.

   Poems take a closer look at different intermediate states of everyday life, repetitions and small things that took vague form in isolation.

   Kinesics of Letters mixes the tradition of handwritten letters, text art and divergent aesthetics, made with p5.js and video manipulation.

    

   [Source: The New River]

   Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:44