By Evan Ackerman
I wish I could discuss voice art on a personal level in the context of music, but by federal law I’m only allowed to sing out loud if all vertebrates within a 50 foot radius are wearing military grade ear protection. Artist Pierre Proske has made it possible for me to share my voice with the world anyway through software which translates vocal patterns into visual art, in sort of the same way that your WinAmp or iTunes visualizer does. Everything that comes out of your mouth involves a unique (to you) combination of frequencies, which Proske’s software is able to turn into a pattern of shapes. Each resulting piece of art is therefore a digital voiceprint of sorts, that looks different depending on who said what when it was created.
Proske was inspired by Japanese textiles, and ultimately sees his software being used for textile design. What could be more sentimentally geeky than creating a blanket for someone that happens to be a voiceprint pattern of you saying “I love you snookums”? Although the software is clearly operational, it sadly doesn’t seem to be available for download.
[ Voice Activated Weaving ] VIA [ Cool Hunting ]
It kinda reminds me of when on Futurama, where Fry trades his hands to the Robot Devil and plays beautiful, Holo-Flute music to Leela. Cool maybe That will become a real instrument through the work of this man. Sweeeeet…
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~
Aristotle