The Elocuter: I Must Remind You We Live in Dada Times…

摘要

The Elocuter is a sonification device that attaches via suction cup to a computer screen. It translates newspaper headlines about the global economic crisis into spoken words, composed of impossible sequences of allophones similar to a Dada poem. The project references poetic experiments of the Dada movement of the 1910/20s, specifically the play with language as a way to respond to a seemingly irrational political and cultural context. Finally, this project can be placed in the history of combining human and machinic components into instruments for performance.