The Alphabet as a Technology

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Lecturer:
Category:
EVENT
Type:
presentation
Keywords:
game / literacy / machine / sound / speech / tradition
Creation Date:
2007-03-24
Language:
English
Description:
With the introduction of signs for vowel sounds it strikes me that the greek alphabet really does become a recording technology for time storage and the safeguarding of pre-literacy soundings from the oral tradition. That machines (Von Kempelen et al) were devised to simulate speech, seems like an extension of this idea of repeatability or playback. And so I could imagine a line that ultimately emerges with Edison and the tape recorder, where speech and song are conserved. I shall expand this idea with a short talk, and at the same time play a composition of mine, based on rhythm, repetition and vowel sounds. The structure of the piece is highly mechanical in the sense that a closed system, (closed insofar as there exists a master clock or pulse), of numbers and their combinations, lies at the heart of the work. (A.M.)

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Original Title (English):
The Alphabet as a Technology
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok, Törley-terem / Kunsthalle, Törley Hall