TY - ART
TI - They Were There When the Noise Started
AU - Kristen Gallerneaux
AB - <em>They Were There When the Noise Started</em> is a video poem created by artist and curator Kristen Gallerneaux.<br><br>"How does the human voice haunt our technology? This piece explores the idea of voice as contagion and the 'sonic spectre' — a concept connected to how sound has infiltrated our technologies in surprising and magical ways. A path is traced from poltergeist events and the talking dolls of Thomas Edison into the work of Richard Gagnon, inventor of the <em>Votrax</em> text-to-speech synthesizer. The <em>Votrax</em> voice, [modeled] on Gagnon’s own, spread through electronic music and pop culture, clandestinely weaving itself into the music of Kraftwerk, educational robots, and classic arcade games. The soundtrack makes use of samples recovered from a <em>Votrax</em> speech board and archival recordings discovered within the speech synthesis archives at the Smithsonian Institution. These same samples have also been time-stretched into ambient tones." — from the Artist's Statement, <em>New River Journal</em>
C3 - Video File (.mp4)
PY - 2021
LA - English
M3 - Glitch, Multimedia, Nonfiction, Poetry, Video
UR - https://dtc-wsuv.org/elo-repositorytestsite/works/2084/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2026-02-17
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