Banderoles

Influenced by works such as Samuel Beckett’s theatre production made teleplay “Not I” (1972; 1975) and “Messa di Voce” performed by Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman with vocalist-composers Jaap Block and Joan La Babara (2003-2005), “Banderoles” continues the performative tradition of harnessing the visual power of the mouth and visualizing the human voice.

“Banderoles” uses voice and face recognition to capture an image of participants’ mouths and to create visual representations of the words being spoken.

Once participants position themselves in front of the camera, their mouths are projected onto the screen. As they begin to speak, the words uttered are manifested as fragments of superimposed text that drift chaotically into the atmosphere, before dissipating completely.

The words spoken are processed by ChatGPT, which has been tasked to respond with a relevant quote from Babbage’s Ninth Treatise. It’s response is then displayed at the bottom of the screen.