HDMXR

Description

HD is a sound sculpture consisting of eight computer hard drives emitting various love / hate dialogues from soap operas. The hard drives have been transformed into speaker transducers emitting sounds through mechanical movement and also through sympathetic vibration of materials. The soap opera dialogues are stripped to a basic semblance of speech, conveyed individually through each hard drive. The eight hard drives are mounted to wall cabinet in two rows of four. The piece is designed to have four different conversations between the top and bottom drives.

Explanation

This piece is a continuation of a series of works dealing with psychoacoustics and the multiplicity of meaning of language. It takes a conversation and conveys it through a transducer where one can see the visual cues of mechanical motions that emit sonic envelopes of speech. Reception of meaning is taken through sight and sound to piece the phonemes together. The psycho acoustic effect on the brain naturally fills in the gaps. One hears the envelope of sounds while reading the "lips" to decode the text. This banal hard drive becomes a personified voice as if it was reading out its data with a foreign tongue. The implication of these personalities suggests that it speaks from its own dramatized memories.

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