Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Unvoiced Territories (2021)
Mobile application launch and intervention in public space.
Unvoiced Territories is a sonic situation in outdoor public spaces and their virtual shadows that outlines a zone for experimental wandering, lingering, reading, contemplating, surveillance, mapping, movement, listening, sounding and voice. To inhabit and activate the work, visit the geographical location of the work and download the mobile app Unvoiced Territories.
The app will be published on 30 . 9 . 2021.
The first edition of the project takes place in central Ljubljana, Slovenia, between three bridges, Tivoli park, the train station and Križanke.
Text that only appears on the app is digitally inscribed onto public space accompanied by mediated sound to establish an invisible spatial setting in the city. Self-developed software maps the text onto the ground and also to prerecorded voices who read it – such that the letters on the map correspond to their speech sounds. Visitors can traverse the text written “on” the city, as their tracked phones emit the phonemes according to their movements over the text.
Intervention:
30.9.2021 at 18:00.
Gathering place: in front of Moderna Galerija, Cankarjeva cesta 15, Ljubljana.
Intervention will move through the city and will last for approximately 1 hour.
Application Unvoiced Territories will be published and available online (GooglePlay/AppStore) on 30.9.2021.
If you wish to participate in the intervention download the application and bring a loudspeaker for your mobile phone.
19:00 – 21:00: Social gathering and finissage of the exhibition Reading (as) Bodies at Cirkulacija2, Ajdovščina underpass.
Link to the application will be available from 30. 9. 2021 on:
Unvoiced Territories is a part of artistic research project Reading Reading (2017-). The project investigates the experience of reading as an interface between our interior mental state and the exterior world, asking whether what separates the two is a temporal, flexible and virtual gap, as opposed to a fixed corporal/material border.
Credits:
Unvoiced Territories (2021)
Project by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Software development:
TeaTracks (Jan T.v. Falkenstein)
Audio DSP based on work by Jushua Parmenter
Built with JUCE, OpenStreetMaps, Mapbox and Flutter
Voices:
Rada Kovačević, Brigita Gračner, Špela Trošt, Luke Thomas Dunne, Erika Johnson Debeljak, Dalibor Novković , Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.
Produced by:
Sploh Institute and Projekt Atol Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project supported by:
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana and Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands
Project is presented as part of Zvokotok cycle.
