<li>This work has been produced in the context of the graduation research of Angeliki Diakrousi from the Experimental Publishing (XPUB) Master course at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.</li>
<li>XPUB is a two year Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design that focuses on the intents, means and consequences of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.</li>
<li>https://xpub.nl</li>
<li>This publication is based on the graduation thesis <em>Let's Talk About Unspeakable Things</em>, written under the supervision of Steve Rushton.</li><li>Special thanks to my tutors, Alex for his enormous help in XPUB comrades and all my friends with whom I had interesting discussions that pushed my research further.</li>
<li>This publication is based on the graduation thesis <em>Let's Talk About Unspeakable Things</em>, written under the supervision of Steve Rushton.</li><li>Special thanks to my tutors, XPUB comrades and all my friends with whom I had interesting discussions that pushed my research further.</li>
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<div><adata-start="38.52"href="#">00:00:38,520</a> And it's very repetitive sound</div>
<div><adata-start="46.6"href="#">00:00:46,600</a> Oh, I can hear some, some radio or some music or broadcast</div>
<div><adata-start="60.2"href="#">00:01:00,200</a> That was too short. I don't know [chuckling]</div>
<div><adata-start="64.44"href="#">00:01:04,440</a> Oh, it's quite loud. It's... Maybe it's in some kind of transport</div>
<div><adata-start="76.22"href="#">00:01:16,220</a> Oh, there is a child speaking</div>
<div><adata-start="85.74"href="#">00:01:25,740</a> There are people talking outside... In a foreign language</div>
<div><adata-start="96.28"href="#">00:01:36,280</a> It's not Dutch and there is some wind</div>
<div><adata-start="102.32"href="#">00:01:42,320</a> There are more people talking</div>
<div><adata-start="112.76"href="#">00:01:52,760</a> Oh, there is sounds like there are construction works</div>
<div><adata-start="116.72"href="#">00:01:56,720</a> Or hammering</div>
<div><adata-start="120.92"href="#">00:02:00,920</a> Oh, it's very loud. Oh [chuckling], it's applause or... a crowd of people. I don't know [chuckling]</div>
<div><adata-start="132.06"href="#">00:02:12,060</a> It's inside. It sounds like a hallway... I don't know. Like inside</div>
<div><adata-start="138.26"href="#">00:02:18,260</a> Because I hear some echoing</div>
<div><adata-start="142.56"href="#">00:02:22,560</a> Ot it's inside a tunnel, where people are passing by</div>
<div><adata-start="158.2"href="#">00:02:38,200</a> It sounds like near some street outside and I hear some kids in the background</div>
<div><adata-start="166.6"href="#">00:02:46,600</a> Again, there is a child screaming or crying</div>
<div><adata-start="28.88"href="#">00:00:28,880</a> Oh, that's... It sounds like there is something clapping or like hitting against a surface</div>
<div><adata-start="38.52"href="#">00:00:38,520</a> And it's very repetitive sound</div>
<div><adata-start="46.6"href="#">00:00:46,600</a> Oh, I can hear some, some radio or some music or broadcast</div>
<div><adata-start="60.2"href="#">00:01:00,200</a> That was too short. I don't know [chuckling]</div>
<div><adata-start="64.44"href="#">00:01:04,440</a> Oh, it's quite loud. It's... Maybe it's in some kind of transport</div>
<div><adata-start="76.22"href="#">00:01:16,220</a> Oh, there is a child speaking</div>
<div><adata-start="85.74"href="#">00:01:25,740</a> There are people talking outside... In a foreign language</div>
<div><adata-start="96.28"href="#">00:01:36,280</a> It's not Dutch and there is some wind</div>
<div><adata-start="102.32"href="#">00:01:42,320</a> There are more people talking</div>
<div><adata-start="112.76"href="#">00:01:52,760</a> Oh, there is sounds like there are construction works</div>
<div><adata-start="116.72"href="#">00:01:56,720</a> Or hammering</div>
<div><adata-start="120.92"href="#">00:02:00,920</a> Oh, it's very loud. Oh [chuckling], it's applause or... a crowd of people. I don't know [chuckling]</div>
<div><adata-start="132.06"href="#">00:02:12,060</a> It's inside. It sounds like a hallway... I don't know. Like inside</div>
<div><adata-start="138.26"href="#">00:02:18,260</a> Because I hear some echoing</div>
<div><adata-start="142.56"href="#">00:02:22,560</a> Ot it's inside a tunnel, where people are passing by</div>
<div><adata-start="158.2"href="#">00:02:38,200</a> It sounds like near some street outside and I hear some kids in the background</div>
<div><adata-start="166.6"href="#">00:02:46,600</a> Again, there is a child screaming or crying</div>
'Let's amplify unspeakable things' is an online platform of exploration and research, regarding voice in public and its amplification, developed by Angeliki Diakrousi. It creates a space for excluded voices to be explored, that questions the establishment of authoritative voices — which construct exclusive speech platforms and binaries, along the assumption that voices have to be rational. It includes a set of <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">podcasts <div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>what conflicts or frictions the technical aspect and difficulties, of a project like that reveals? The website consists of different web-audio implementations</div></div></div>that revisit and overlay an archive of audio recordings produced in situated meetings and soundwalks, and media sources from a body of research. 'Let's amplify unspeakable things' is based on the concept that amplification can create presence through repetition and multiplication.
'Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things' is an online platform of exploration and research, regarding female voices in public and their amplification, developed by Angeliki Diakrousi. It creates a space for excluded voices to be explored, that questions the establishment of authoritative voices — which construct exclusive speech platforms and binaries, along the assumption that voices have to be rational. It includes a set of <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">podcasts <div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>what conflicts or frictions the technical aspect and difficulties, of a project like that reveals? The website consists of different web-audio implementations</div></div></div>that revisit and overlay an archive of audio recordings, produced in situated<div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">workshops<div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div></div></div></div> and soundwalks, and media sources from a body of research. 'Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things' is based on the concept that amplification can provide presence through repetition and multiplication, as the structure of the workshops and the website reveals. The project itself is a process of feedback and iteration of actions, throughout a period of four months, situated around the space of <a href="http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/" >Leeszaal</a> and <a href="https://hub.xpub.nl/">hub.xpub.nl</a>. It exists in between the friction of institutions (a public library and an academy) and different public spheres (wereldvrouwen, academic), and it aims to go beyond their binaries.
This is a documentation of a series of meetings/workshops I am organising together with Christina Karagianni. Our intentions come from personal experiences and we seek to explore the silencing of excluded voices, and go beyond their barriers. We combine our practices -her practice lies on choreography and dance and mine on social interaction, voice and sound- in moments of <a href="http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/" >Leeszaal</a>, an open local library, a public space of diversity. How can we engage politically with the exclusion of specific voices from the public sphere? We are borrowing methods from feminist groups and protest movements and vocal warming up exercises by Pauline Oliveros. For example, protesters would amplify the speaker's voice by repeating collectively their speech to make their presence visible. Feminists would create safe spaces where women could speak about domestic violence and make a dialogue based on listening. <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">We invite <div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>how we should approch the gender terminology and false association with voice when inviting people? Should it be about femme sounding? Female voice? </div></div></div>people from Leeszaal and our environment, who find themselves related and interested to this topic. Elements from the meetings: discuss previous material, reading extracts in random order, <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">discuss <div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>what conflicts or frictions the technical aspect provokes? web-audio, recordings</div></div></div>personal associations and experiences with voice in public, warming up, say a sentence of personal experience in any language, transcribe only the vowels of it, read back the vowels, read outloud all together the score of vowels, speak with distorted voice, make podcasts. The produced material is being included in an audio archive, the player.
This is a documentation of a series of meetings/workshops I am organising together with Christina Karagianni. Our intentions come from personal experiences and we seek to explore the silencing of excluded voices, and go beyond their barriers. We combine our practices -her practice lies on choreography and dance and mine on social interaction, voice and sound- in moments of <a href="http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/" >Leeszaal</a>, an open local library, a public space of diversity. How can we engage politically with the exclusion of specific voices from the public sphere? We are borrowing methods from feminist groups and protest movements and vocal warming up exercises by Pauline Oliveros. For example, protesters would amplify the speaker's voice by repeating collectively their speech to make their presence visible. Feminists would create safe spaces where women could speak about domestic violence and make a dialogue based on listening. <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">We invite <div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>how we should approch the gender terminology and false association with voice when inviting people? Should it be about femme sounding? Female voice? </div></div></div>people from Leeszaal and our environment, who find themselves related and interested to this topic. The produced material is being included in an audio archive, <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">player.<div class="tooltip-content-right" ><div>what conflicts or frictions the technical aspect provokes? web-audio, recordings</div></div></div>
you are invited to <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">amplify<div class="tooltip-content-right"><div>Protesters in occupy wall street all together repeated the voice of the public speaker in order to amplify their voices. This is called "the human microphone"</div></div></div> parts of the podcasts that you find worthy of attention by repeating or annotate them with your own voice message. Amplification can happen through multiplication, through the gathering of multiple individual voices. <p>Maximum duration: 1 min</p>
you are invited to <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">amplify<div class="tooltip-content-right"><div>Protesters in occupy wall street all together repeated the voice of the public speaker in order to amplify their voices. This is called "the human microphone"</div></div></div> parts of the podcasts that you find worthy of attention by repeating or annotate them with your own voice message. Amplification can happen through repetition and multiplication, through the gathering of multiple individual voices repeating fragments of situations. <p>Maximum duration: 1 min</p>
I recorded sounds from the West Rotterdam, <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">while walking around the neighborhood of <div class="tooltip-content-down" ><img width="300px" src="images/soundwalk-photo1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img width="300px" src="images/soundwalk-photo3.jpg" /></div></div><a href="http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/" >Leeszaal</a> for several days. This action was part of my first experiments when I was in attempt to understand how gender binaries regarding voice are reflected in space, especially public space.
This is a diary from my first experiments. It includes mostly material from my walks. I recorded sounds from the West Rotterdam, <div class="tooltip-wrap" style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">while walking around the neighborhood of <div class="tooltip-content-down" ><img width="300px" src="images/soundwalk-photo1.jpg" /><br /><br /><img width="300px" src="images/soundwalk-photo3.jpg" /></div></div><a href="http://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/" >Leeszaal</a> for several days. This action was part of my first experiments when I was in attempt to understand how gender binaries regarding voice are reflected in space, especially public space.
