sound installation by Sillyconductor
— 08 NOV — 10 NOV | Corneliu Miklosi Museum
An installation that translates various ambient sounds into Morse
Code and Morse Code into letters/words, all in real-time. Regardless if
it picks up the steps of the visitors through the gallery, the sound of
moving vehicles, voices, other nearby audio installations,
frequencies well beyond the human hearing range, basically any
sound source will be sublimated into a string of letters, as a kind of
endless poetry of space, in which the cadence of sounds and the
software area are the only sources that can continue the endless row of
letters.
Somewhere between hauntology and radio amateurism, this
installation can handle any kind of quantitative input and any level of
sound (more sound sources create more extensive haikus) they can clearly
encourage passers-by to have a personal input. It is impossible to
anticipate the end of the sentence but there is a chance for that event
to happen unexpectedly. The end is distinctly marked by a question mark.
It’s a new language, a rough translation of the ever-present ambient
noise, which has a minimalist alphabet. Meanwhile, at the top of the
waveform screen, the viewers can see how the language situations are
generated. As a performative adage, the text can be read by an actor in a
real-time theater performance.