Silence, a Drone

Artist
Rhett Tsai

Creation media and date
Sound, video, 2020

Description
Silence, a Drone is a real-time sound work created by artist Rhett Tsai using Max.

In this work, the artist uses his own face as a foundation and employs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) AI tool to fictionalize eighteen avatars of a citizen named Joe, who lives in a smart city. Each avatar delivers a vocal narrative describing stories of human dilemmas in relation to the smart city.

Through the intervention of granular synthesis, the words that are forbidden from being spoken transform into elongated drones that cannot be decoded or clearly heard during the real-time performance of the sound work.

You are free to read and interpret the Chinese poetry written by the artist from any direction.

沉默的长音

艺术家
蔡宇潇

创作媒介及年份
声音及视频，2020年

作品简介
《沉默的长音》是艺术家蔡宇潇使用Max创作的一件实时声音作品。

在该作品中，艺术家以自己的面部为基础，用GAN生成式对抗网络AI技术虚构了一位生活在智能城市中的市民乔（Joe）的十八个化身，他们分別发出的十八段人声描述了关于智能城市与人类困境的故事。

经由颗粒合成技术的介入，那些禁止被说出的字词在声音作品的实时表演中化为一段段无法被解读和被听清的长音。

您可从任意方向阅读与理解作品中由艺术家写就的中文诗。