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SloMoVo [Slow (Almost Silent) Voice Experiments]

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  • David Jhave Johnston
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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2022.5.50

Published

2022-12-17

Issue

No. 5 (2022): Alternative Knowledges — Communities · Creativity · Narration

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2022 David Jhave Johnston

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

SloMoVo [Slow (Almost Silent) Voice Experiments]. (2022). Cubic Journal, 5(5), 70-73. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2022.5.50

Keywords:

alvin lucier, tertiary orality, voice augmentation, wavetable synthesis

Abstract

SloMoVo is mostly inaudible voice/grunts/hums triggering synths generated in real-time. It is throat synthing: making silence into sound. Each word makes a mountain. Each breath begins a tide. SloMoVo asks: how do tiny seemingly inconsequential gestures of our lives reverberate through networks? How potent is the seemingly impotent unheard voice when augmented with tech? What effect does the unheard or repressed or invisible have on the resonance of the universe? Is network technology and media software capable of expanding identity? What is the resonant frequency of society?

Author Biography

  • David Jhave Johnston

    Dr. David (Jhave) Johnston is a digital-poet writing in emergent domains: AI, 3D, VR, and code. Author of the books ReRites (Anteism Books, 2019) and Aesthetic Animism (MIT Press, 2016). He can be reached online at www.glia.ca