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This web-audio interface challenges the ways we are listening to certain female sounding voices that are perceived as inappropriate - because of the quality of their sound, their gender, the medium's distortions but also stereotypes and collective memories that they often awake. These are verbal expressions that have been associated with forms of monstrosity since ancient times. Contributors are invited to record themselves with their own microphones, expressing their thoughts and choose a type of distortion. They are invited to participate in forming new imaginaries around a technologically mediated collective voice that through its 'monstrosity' can reveal other forms of speech that embrace their damage. They can choose what type of mediated voice they want to do that. A series of writings reveals stories and theories on the topic. The interface allows any voice to be recorded and saved in the artist's server where the website is hosted. There they get distorted through several scripts. Then the new sounds are categorized, depending on the chosen distortion, and published back in the platform. They can be played at the same time or in any desired order.<p>

n: Women apologize or prove that what they say make sense [ref to text of zapatista].

Women's voices are often going through a lot of censorship and critique when they appear in public. They have to be adjusted and filtered in order to be heard and avoid silencing. This is extended to the medium that is used to channel their voices, like radio. The censorship extends in the technological apparatus. The listeners then, are listening to a distorted voice that expresses needs and opinions of its physical proprietor and it goes beyond its control. In this work I focus on the sound of that voice that is asking to become part of public dialogues. In the platform I refer to several examples that these voices have been going through some distortion.

But it is not only women's voices that are going through these filters. It is also the queer, any feminine sounding voice, the collective, the resistant, the black, the refugee and more. The examples I refer to have attracted my attention and are situated in my personal connections. But this platform intends to welcome any case of these medium's/technological transformations that certain voices are going through as an extension of the society's censorship. I want to open the dialogue to more communities and people that have noticed an exclusion like that through mediated speech platforms. (If you have more personal or not examples of such distortions, don't hesitate to refer to them. )

I invite you to reclaim these distortions that characterize excluded voices. Their distortion becomes their quality that is also their damage and their pain. I want to hear these distorions and express my needs and rights through this damaged [text of queer damaging] voice. So I made these tools that distort the voice in ways that are borrowed from the examples I have encountered in my research. I invite you to choose the voice that you think reflects your personal needs, damages or you want to talk through them and become part of this dialogue. To share your own experience or your imaginations about this voice. Sometimes this mediated voice is safer as it camouflages the actual identity of our voice, so you can become anonymous, like the witness voices. The copyrights of the voices belong to you. I ask you to use them in the performance radio-active monstrosities where I will narrate ...Only for this recording. You can choose to include your name or not. Categorize the distortions
The interface was first made for the performance "Radioactive Monstrosities" as part of the event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/524864625047957/"> NL_CL #2 : FLESH</a> hosted by <a href="https://instrumentinventors.org/">iii</a> and <a href="https://netherlands-coding-live.github.io/">Netherlands Coding Live</a> and its conceptua;ization is an ongoing process related to the graduation research <a href="eaiaiaiaoi.w-i-t-m.net"> Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things</a> and previous <a href="http://w-i-t-m.net/2019/radio-active-female-monstrosity_2019.html">performances </a> Your voice recordings will be used and credited accordingly
My fascination started through these perfoamnces that I want to open through them with a possibility in the future to become a more open dialogue.

Credit: the work is inspired by vocable code <a href="http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/">http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/</a>

(Technology is seamlessly related to socity and its dynamics amd biases)




I will narrate/describe what it is about and I ask you to contribute by adding your comment


Women have to transform their voices or train more in order to be heard. They are 'monsters' anyway