TY - ART
TI - They Were There When the Noise Started
AU - Kristen Gallerneaux
AB - "<em>They Were There When the Noise Started</em>" is a video poem created by artist and curator Kristen Gallerneaux.<br><br>"How does the human voice haunt our technology? This piece explores the idea of voice as contagion and the 'sonic spectre'—a concept connected to how sound has infiltrated our technologies in surprising and magical ways. A path is traced from poltergeist events and the talking dolls of Thomas Edison into the work of Richard Gagnon, inventor of the <em>Votrax</em> text-to-speech synthesizer. The <em>Votrax</em> voice, [modeled] on Gagnon’s own, spread through electronic music and pop culture, clandestinely weaving itself into the music of Kraftwerk, educational robots, and classic arcade games. The soundtrack makes use of samples recovered from a <em>Votrax</em> speech board and archival recordings discovered within the speech synthesis archives at the Smithsonian Institution. These same samples have also been time-stretched into ambient tones." — From the artist's statement, <em>New River Journal</em>
C3 - Video File (.mp4)
PY - 2021
LA - English
M3 - Glitch, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Video
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/2084/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-03
ER -