2021
Unnatural Language Processing, 2021 Zoom essays, audio-video, 33 mins Researched, written, produced and performed: Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern) Narration: James Parker
Machine Listening returned to Unsound in 2021, with a fifth live session. Unnatural Language Processing explores the history, politics and artistic potential of automatic speech recognition.
Along with talks, conversations and newly commissioned audio experiments, the session launches an ‘instrument’, built in collaboration with Reduct, for the filtering, processing and manipulation of speech and text, which the public were invited to play.
The following artists appeared at the live session: Alessandro Bosetti, Martina Raponi, Sue Tompkins, Roslyn Orlando, Justin Clemens, and Mehak Sawney; plus contributions by Robert Ochshorn, Jennifer Walshe, Tomomi Adachi, Johannes Kreidler, Michael McClelland and more.
The Unnatural Language Processing audio-visual essay kicked off the program of the same name, surveying the world of machine listening, automatic speech recognition, language processing.
Presentations:
- Unsound Festival, 2021, online