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Sound Art & Intervention Anywhere, All The Time Sonic Portraits Sweep Sound Selfie Noise Cancellation Remix 15 Minutes of Infinite Time Sonic Portraits | Deutsche Oper Inanimate Beethoven’s Ear Ana X Singing Stones Whispering Wall Music For An Incidental Audience No Sound, No Movement, No Memory Artist CV

Anywhere, All The Time

Sonic Portraits

Sweep

Sound Selfie

Noise Cancellation Remix

15 Minutes of Infinite Time

Sonic Portraits | Deutsche Oper

Inanimate

Beethoven’s Ear

Ana X

Singing Stones

Whispering Wall

Music For An Incidental Audience

No Sound, No Movement, No Memory

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Discography Yellow Bell Alphabet Dream Noise The Demolition Series City Splits : No.1 Berlin Organ Eye Now Right Here CC / BB

Yellow Bell

Alphabet Dream Noise

The Demolition Series

City Splits : No.1 Berlin

Organ Eye

Now Right Here

CC / BB

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Visitors’ faces were analyzed using facial recognition freeware. Facial data was translated into sound, producing unique sonic imprints of individual faces. The Sonic Portraits were added to a continually growing soundscape and simultaneously recorded to usb armbands for participants to wear and take home.

A basic form of digital sound synthesis was used, emphasising the reductive process of digitally encoding the face into a few basic measurements. Digitisation takes measurements at regular intervals and stores them as numbers. Digital therefore encodes by marking thresholds of absolute distinction. The gap between two thresholds is a range of quality, but digitisation imposes a uniform value on the entire range that erases difference in favour of a determinate quantity. Digital excludes excess, singularity and uniqueness in favour of homogeneity. I’m interested in what this means when our identities, choices, and personalities are transformed into streams of data under the algorithmic gaze.

* Facial detection / recognition technologies (FRT) use mathematical algorithms to create a digital template of a person’s face, otherwise known as a face print. FRT when employed as a surveillance technology, (for example some CCTV cameras in London, China and the U.S.A.) requires no involvement from the person that is being surveyed or incidentally captured by camera. Unlike other biometrics FRT can operate anonymously in the background. People do not need to surrender their face image as they would their fingerprint or their iris scan. A face can be captured and (de)coded without the person’s consent or active participation. FRT is therefore considered to be a ‘silent technology’.