Information Analog, wireless voice synthesis and recognition.

Analog Information

Information Analog installation is the result of a collaborative project six months at the ECAL (the Cantonal School of Art and Design Lausanne), which involved the Swiss artist Lehni, along with Franz Hoffman and Pierre Terrier Jerome Rigaud. The protagonists of this artistic experimentation are two computers placed inside a soundproof booth and connected to each other only by hearing, or by the possibility of listening to what the other law. Through the use of a voice recognition software and a speech synthesis system one of the two computer reads a text, while the other listens, and as a diligent typist, transcribes everything that succeeds in capturing. As soon as one finishes reading your own text, the other immediately begins to recite the transcription and the roles are reversed. In this endless game text undergoes, at every turn, some alteration more or less significant. That fact helps to focus our attention on the influence that each external interference may result in the communication process between a broadcaster and a receiver, and reminds us of the wonderful project "On Translation" by Antoni Muntadas that investigates this aspect communication and in particular the distortions of meaning that are determined when the message is mediated by an interpreter. In the case of Analog Information we are also led to reflect on the coding and decoding of the message that avvienne in the processes of synthesis and speech recognition involving the two computers, with the particularity that both entities involved, totally disregard the meaning. Meaning that, however, remains indispensable in the process of conscious communication between human beings.