Txt4convergence
short version
* Aargh ! sustained, ... * AA : /a/ * A as a starting point * A shape * An object : A as an object * Speech : as a mechanism * A is a vowel * Ooo * Ee : /e/ * U * I : Finish, Japanese & Russian sizes * A Building : High Rise * The 9th floor * In a field of concrete, bricks and buildings * Open a window * Shouts & screams : are the sounds from the city that reach you, up there * Wind : has a stromg impact on it * Drafts : when opposite windows are opened * Whistles through cracks, cavities and fissures * Cavities * The Mouth : because the mouth is a cavity * A as a Cavity * A Resonator : blow across a bottle’s top * Moans & Murmurs as categorized by Luigi Russolo * MmmW
Aargh is an exploration into the mechanics of speech. Inspired by the famous Wolfgang Von Kempelen, Aargh explores the possibilities to create a site specific sound installation for the 11th floor of the Overtoon office building. This particular building stands high and free in the city center of Brussels. Wind has a strong impact on it. The offices are drafty spaces when you open them up on both sides. Can the energy created by the wind be used as a force or input to generate sound. Possibly something which remotely sounds like speech.
http://www.atkn.org/wiki/index.php/Aargh
* Gert Aertsen, 2015
long version
* Aargh ! sustained, ... * AA : /a/ * A as a starting point * A shape * An object : A as an object * Speech : as a mechanism * Von Kempelen : Wolfgang, Mechanismus Der Menschlichen Sprache Nebst Beschreibung Seiner Sprechenden Maschine, 1791 * A is a vowel * Ooo * Ee : /e/ * U * I : Finish, Japanese & Russian sizes * Gunnar Fant: Acoustic Theory of Speech Production, 1970 * Talk : because that’s what I thought I heard, people talking * ALOTOF : a laboratory * A Building * High Rise : Why move out of the city, when you can go up to reach the open field * The 9th floor * In a field of concrete, bricks and buildings * Open a window * Shouts & screams : are the sounds from the city that reach you, up there * Wind : has a stromg impact on it * Drafts : when opposite windows are opened * Whistles through cracks, cavities and fissures * Cavities * The Mouth : because the mouth is a cavity * A as a Cavity * A Resonator : blow across a bottle’s top * Godfried Willem Raes : for the many times I came across his work on the logos foundation * Hermann von Helmholtz : apparatus for the synthesis of sound * Hole : in the wall & floor. ` * Wind as a potential source of energy * Lungs blow * An instrument * Voice : the voice is an instrument * Vox Humana * An organ * A reed replaces the vocal chords * A generator * Sound : a non sound * * Analog * Persistence of now * Time * Throat * larynx * Moans & Murmurs as categorized by Luigi Russolo * Mmmwwwaargh : or rather that’s what it became
Aargh is an exploration into the mechanics of speech. Inspired by the famous Wolfgang Von Kempelen, Aargh explores the possibilities to create a site specific sound installation for the 11th floor of the Overtoon office building. This particular building stands high and free in the city center of Brussels. Wind has a strong impact on it. The offices are drafty spaces when you open them up on both sides. Can the energy created by the wind be used as a force or input to generate sound. Possibly something which remotely sounds like speech.
http://www.atkn.org/wiki/index.php/Aargh
* Gert Aertsen, 2015