Medium: headsets with microphones, custom-made data gloves, sunglasses with opaque lenses, a real-time sound manipulating system with a micro-controller and Max/MSP, and 30,000 digital images projected on the wall
Miscommunication (v2.0D) explores the difficulty of verbal communication between two people from different linguistic backgrounds. The piece manipulates the voices of two participants who face each other. The voices are fed into the computer, duplicated, and altered based on the participants’ hand movements. In the headphones, the participants hear their manipulated voices, and as they attempt to communicate with hand gestures, more misconception and confusion arise. Use of the data gloves allows each participant to directly experience the extreme chaos of incomplete verbal communication.
By exploring the connection between movement and sound, meaning and perception, this piece asks people what the alternative ways of communication can be for all of us in the future.
1 year ago
