SOUNDING OUT IDENTITIES

OF ARTIFICIAL VOICE

 

 

Autopoetry-Apparatus for Anticapitalistic Advertisement Material, 2021


AI-based sound-poems

 

The audience enters a space containing four loudspeakers on stands and a commercial thermal printer for till receipts, built into a console. An AI, trained and staged as an Autopoetry-Apparatus generates advertising texts in the writing and speaking style of the author Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. These texts are vocalized live and spatialized by the four loudspeakers.


Four AIs engage in conversation with each other, articulating different versions of the text generation. The loudspeakers, directed towards a common center for dialogue, function as discussants. Through varying speech rhythms and the emotional undertone of the spoken words, the apparatuses appear human-like, while digital material is converted into an immediate, analog experience. Thinking, formulating, competing, and inner states are generated solely through sound, making them audible. Individual texts are selected by a fifth, higher-level AI (referee) and printed in situ by the commercial thermal printer. However, printing on thermal paper is not durable. Over time, the selected poems fade until they are completely unrecognisable.


The document’s function dissolves, and the laboriously created and archived content must disappear again due to the medium. The new, momentarily created material evolves, is discussed in order to disappear again.






Concept: Verena Lercher


Programming: Verena Lercher & made by a machine


Premiered: KONTAKTE Festival Berlin 2021, Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg






 

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sound-poems

 

translated by Chat GPT
the original sound-poems were generated in German

 

 

                                          



                                                       the innovation in movements was the movement

 

                                                                   country love is a painted poem on the street

 

                                                                       wodka cleanses the soul

 

                                                                       who what how is a feeling

 

                                                             thinking along is no longer worthwhile

 

                                                                       bresso and off to the trash can

 

                                                                            taft holds like your word

 

                                                                                  my way confuses

                                                                               please remain silent

 

                                                                       snickers when it’s really shitty

 

                                                                            a dream of space in war

 

                                                                fixies the feel-good diaper drips

 

                                                     cats would fuck whiskas

 

                                                     amnesty international used to be

 

                  we help them take a little step back on their path

 

                                                     those who love cheese will love analogue

 

                                                             soft pampered neglected

 

                                    mercure hotels because vacations need money too

 

                                                                thinking along is no longer worthwhile

 

                                                         audi advantage through geometry

 

                                                                   peak performance is our weakness

 

                                                                                only real with false

 

                                                                   chocolate with right-wing character

 

                                                                       nogger a silent porn

 

                                                                       the healthy one starts without start

 

                                                                       how good that he shot

 

                                                                       lotto makes people poorer

 

                                                                       mcdonalds is maintaince for the body

 

                                               one of us on a fragement of memory

 

                                                     in certain moments you need beer

 

                                                      eyewitnesses sometimes turn a blind eye

 

                                                      the power of reality is black-drapped

 

                                                               impossible it does exist

 

                                    fabia romana is a photopraph of a side street

 

                                                     we need more mobile shadow walls

 

                                                                       rice pudding when faith falters

 

                                                                 afri cola is a distillation of coca cola

 

                                                                    the bank has stopped moving

 

                                                                             the future comes first

 

                                                                  a system with purpose is purposeless

 

                                                                                                                            the social homeland party needs to be an a hugephoto

 

                                                      switch to the future and look back

 

                                                      already christmas today is an idea ahead

 

                                                                       save yourself rich and die slowly

 

                                                      millions of christians shop at kik

 

                                                                       home is where he never was

burger king and dany sahne are like the advocat
and his creamy spread






sound-poems (german)

 

                                   

 

landliebe ist ein geschminktes gedicht auf der strasse                                                                                                                     

                                           wodka macht die seele rein                                                                          

                                        wer was wie ist ein gefühl                                                                            

 

mitdenken rentiert sich nicht mehr                                           


                                              bresso und ab in die mülltonne                                                                

 

taft hält wie dein wort                                                                                   

                                                                         meine art verwirrt                                                                                                          

                                                           bitte bleiben sie still                                                                                       

   snickers wenns mal so richtig scheisse ist                                             

 

ein traum vom raum im krieg                                                                      

 

f                                                                                ixies die wohlfühlwindel tropft                                                        

 

katzen würden whiskas ficken                                                                     

 

    amnesty international du warst gewesen                                               

 

wir helfen ihnen den eigenen weg ein wenig zurück zu gehen             

 

wer käse mag wird analog lieben                                                                

 

                             weich verwöhnt verwahrlost                                                                           

 

     mercure hotels weil urlaub auch geld braucht                                     

 

mitdenken rentiert sich vorbei                                                                     

 

       audi vorsprung druch geometrie                                                          

 

höchstleistung ist unser schwach                                                                

 

                                                 nur echt mit flasch                                                                                          

                                                       schokolade mit rechtscharakter                                                        

 

   nogger dir einen lautlosen porn                                                               

 

der gesunde startet startlos                                                                           

 

                          wie gut dass er geschossen hat                                                         

 

lotto macht die menschen ärmer                                                                 

 

   mcdonalds is wartung für den körper                                                     

 

ein von uns auf einem auschnitt der erinnerung                                       

 

in gewissen momenten braucht man bier                                                  

 

       augenzeugen drücken auch mal ein auge zu                                     

 

                 die kraft der wirklichkeit ist schwarz bezogen                                        

 

   geht nicht gibts doch                                                                                  

                                                               fabia roman ist die fotografie einer seitenstrasse                              

 

wir brauchen mehr mobile schattenwände                                                

                                                         milchreis wenn der glaube kippt                                                                     

 

afri cola ist eine destillation von coca cola                                               

 

die bank hat aufgehört sich zu bewegen                                                    

 

    die zukunft kommt vorher                                                                        

                                                system mit sinn ist sinnlos                                                                           

 

                       die soziale heimatpartei muss auf ein riesiges foto

 

schalten sie auf zukunft und schauen sie zurück                                      

 

heute schon weihnachten ist ein idee voraus                                            

 

spar dich reich und stirb langsam                                                                

 

millionen von christen kaufen bei kik                                                        

 

zuhause ist wo er nie war                                                                              

 

burger king und dany sahne sind wie der advokat
              
 und sein rahmiger aufstrich                                                                          

 

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