2024
‘LLLAAA’ is an interactive sound sculpture that explores the interface between body, technology and language. A silicone mouthpiece mounted on the wall, which plays a role in body modification culture, serves here as an instrument for sound production. The movement of a silicone tongue inside the mouth, the resonance chamber, creates a continuous, digital ‘LALALA’.
Speech synthesis and text-to-speech systems are increasingly characterising our everyday lives. Their functionality often remains opaque. ‘LLLAAA’ offers an insight into these complex systems and demonstrates in a fundamental way how text becomes sound.
Simple, repetitive syllables functioned as a universal means of communication that existed before the development of complex languages. The mouth was the earliest musical instrument, even before the invention of the flute. In ‘LLLAAA’, this pre-linguistic sound is digitised and re-contextualised.
On view:
Tresor.West until end of May 2025
CODING Group Exhibition for DING
IMAGES:
1&2: Luca Celine
2-6: © eSeL.at - Robert Puteanu
VIDEO:
Franz Ehn