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The Twins - A sound sculpture by David Worrall | |||||||||||
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A pair of semi-naked sex-dolls are
playing Scrabble on their day off. Embedded in their facial orifices
are small loudspeakers, through which they communicate, both with each
other and to their exhibition audience. They talk in an almost familiar
language. Delighting in a communication characterised by qualities of
flexibility, restlessness and responsiveness to the environment, they
are articulate, displaying the quick wit of repartee, the to-and-fro of
gossip and news. Very highly strung, they change moods with startling
suddenness from sweet calm to brooding thunder. Their impulse is to
awaken and ripple consciousness, to communicate. |
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The sound component of The Twins
consists of vocal sounds composed and synthesised in real-time using a
software speech synthesiser, controlled by software written by the
artist.
When algorithms are employed as formal compositional devices they provide mechanisms for revealing an inner nature: of sound, of material, of process, of our perceptions, of our systems of symbols and metaphors. By placing an emphasis on active listening rather than the sending and receiving of messages, an artist can be freed from the bounds of mere self-expression and the work can become revelatory. These ideas were first explored in an Artist Talk given at the First Iterate conference, Monash University, Melbourne, December 3-5 1999, and more fully developed in Composition as Revelation, a paper delivered at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, University of Technology, Brisbane in July 4-8 2000. |
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