From Voice to Pulse
Zeno van den Broek
From Voice to Pulse is an audiovisual work exploring the relationship between the human and the digital, with algorithmic percussion performed by custom robotics and voice by Gagi Petrovic. The AI-generated text, trained on Species of Spaces by Georges Perec and various Wikipedia pages, offers unique perspectives on spatial perception.
From Voice to Pulse is an audiovisual work revolving around the relation and tension between the human and the digital, shining new light on one of the oldest forms of music: the combination of voice and percussion. The piece takes form in an algorithmic composition for percussion, performed by custom robotics, and for voice, performed by a human. The visuals are inspired by the weaving loom (one of the very first analog computers) and self playing musical instruments such as the Componium, bridging the physical and the digital. The text performed by Gagi Petrovic is written by the GPT-2 open-source artificial intelligence. This AI was trained on ‘Species of Spaces’ by Georges Perec and various Wikipedia pages on spatial perception, which resulted in new uncanny perspectives on the relation between people and the (digital) spaces they occupy.