2000 Lincoln Center Festival

Tinkering With Speech:

An Interactive Text/Sound Installation

By Timothy Polashek

This installation allows users to collaborate on the composition of a text sound work by allowing them to record themselves speaking and to listen to computer generated responses. Options include fragmentation, syllabic shuffling, vowel substitution, and even algorithms combining several words into new ones, real or nonsensical. The produced sounds are not only interesting timbral derivations and extensions of the original recorded voices, but explorations in semantics.

Timothy Polashek, writing for computer-generated tape, live electronics, traditional acoustic and vocal text/sound ensembles, is a doctoral student at Columbia University and an Audio Engineer with BR Productions. Having earned the Dartmouth Electro-Acoustic Music MA, his teachers include Jonathan Chenette, Larry Polansky, Charles Dodge, Bradford Garton, and Fred Lerdahl. His music is performed throughout Europe, including Moscow, South America, Asia, and Canada.

Timothy D. Polashek

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