Phoneme Sequencer
The Phoneme Sequencer is an interactive computer program which uses the English language consonants and vowels to create a range of rhythmic beats and even words on an interactive touch sensitive screen. Participants can select the order of phonemes, adjust the tempo and combine male and female voices.
Shootout at Custer Street
In this work, my first sound work, I explored intonation by editing together common words used in the recording. Meaning was altered by removing nouns and verbs from sentences then recombining in other ways. Changes in intonation express changes in the feelings being expressed as repetitions of key words and phrases intensify their relationships. Particular syllables that are phonemically related, repeated words that reoccur throughout the recording and whose slight changes in intonation are normally obscured in their separation from one another create the rhythm. Placing the utterances together reveal the melody of one word spoken many times by the same or different persons. During this part of the work, the sound ricochets around the room in staccato rhythms.
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