How we communicate

How we communicate, is an experimental body of work that responds to the increased use of text based communication devices in our daily lives. The work uses bespoke software to interpret human voice or clapping into text, mimicking how computers transmit information.

In 2016 I did a Micro Residency at Eastville Projects in Yeovil to explore working with the idea of sending binary information soley through voice and rhythm. During the residency I had the pleasure of meeting Tamsin Mendelsohn who took the challenge of using her voice to activate some software I had written.

The residency gave me the opportunity to test the software in a range of settings. The video below is the first test of the work it which Tamsin learned to type hello.

How we communicate was a then performance and installation in which I used my voice to produce binary rhythms to create the following stream of ASCII text: “Hello I am a signal in a noisy channel”

Presentation History
DIEM Elektro, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Aarhaus, Denmark, September 2017 (performance) Sound & Music Computing Conference, Cyprus, July 2018 (poster)