Mei-Jia & Ting-Ting
Musician C. Spencer Yeh pushes speech synthesizers trained to represent Chinese dialects to the threshold of intelligibility and recognition. (...)
Rainbow Family
Composer, musicologist, and improviser George Lewis explores the issues that arise in encounters between machine listeners and their biological counterparts. (...)
Supreme Connections Meets Video City in Maryanne Amacher’s Intelligent Life
Musicologist Amy Cimini discusses Maryanne Amacher’s (1938–2009) unrealized media opera Intelligent Life (1980–), which draws influence from cutting-edge scientific knowledge and popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s. (...)
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways-of-Making of the Dancehall Sound System
Julian Henriques looks at the Jamaican reggae dancehall sound system to explore how this street technology has found creolizing ways to prevail in the neocolonial power struggle between popular culture and Jamaica’s ruling elite. (...)
Contra Diction. Speech Against Itself
What techniques do we use when we navigate between the human voice, governmental law and the concept of justice in the technosphere? (...)
On ASMR
In a series of videos, texts and audio, artist Claire Tolan depicts how the ASMR subculture works to connect people in intimate auditory ways over the internet, providing therapy for the alienations and isolations the digital world created. (...)
Potency and Partial Knowledge. An Exercise
While the vast macro and micro scales of the technosphere can be difficult to grapple with, so too is the complexity of its many interactions. The artists Andrew Yang and Jeremy Bolen propose a modest attunement exercise to counter this inaccessibility. (...)
Sound and Pain
One cardinal source of the trauma induced by the technosphere is sonic: the ubiquity of anthropophonic vibrations passing through our environments. (...)
Résonance Végétale
Music creation by Xu Yi, for the Cucurbital Orchestra, video and electronic device spatialized in multi-tracks. (...)
Prestidigital Behemoth
What can we learn by re-newing historical art? A sonic work of cause-and-effect interpretation in the footsteps of cybernetic arts. (...)
