Public Works
Supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
“Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do. (Where “I” is defined by those changes for which I is required).”- Chris Mann
Backstory: I had built www.theuse.info as something of a dot-matrix synthesiser. Turbulence gave me the opportunity to build a standalone controller.
Versions: An interface which uses one protocol (a user mixing a moment of music realised by instrumentalists playing familiar music on unfamiliar instruments) to conjugate, interpret, filter and comment on another (speech arrayed as a dot-matrix synth).
Materials: Two websites, two hundred something audio files, software.
REQUIREMENTS
FireFox browser. Sound on.
MEDIA & ACHIEVEMENTS
American Mavericks: An interview with Chris Mann
Either-Or, Chris Mann, Object Collection | ISSUE Project Room
Networked Music Review — Turbulence Commission- “Public Works” by Chris Mann