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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>
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n: Women apologize or prove that what they say make sense [ref to text of zapatista].
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Women's voices are often going through 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 technological apparatus/the medium used to channel their voices, like the radio. The listeners then, are hearing 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 such voices have been 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 examples I refer to have attracted my attention and are situated in my personal identity. This platform intends to welcome any case of medium's 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 through mediated speech platforms.
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I invite you to reclaim these distortions that characterize excluded voices. Their distortion becomes their quality that is also their damage, through which needs and rights are expressed [text of queer damaging]. I made a set of tools that distort the voice in ways 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 it and become part of this dialogue and 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, and become anonymous, like the example of witness voices. Categorize the distortions
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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 conceptualization is an ongoing process related to my 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>
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Credits: the platform is inspired by Vocable Code <a href="http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/">http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/</a>. Regarding the references thanks Alice, Gert, Joana for sharing with me, as well Amy for her publication made for the workshop <a href="http://w-i-t-m.net/2020/ecstatic-speech-2020.html">Eclectic Speech</a>.
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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.
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(Technology is seamlessly related to socity and its dynamics amd biases)
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I will narrate/describe what it is about and I ask you to contribute by adding your comment
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Women have to transform their voices or train more in order to be heard. They are 'monsters' anyway
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