As it wEre

Sound Visualization of Mesostics (Medium: Arduino, LCD Display, Sound)

As it wEre explores cognitive psychoacoustics with particular emphasis on spoken words. The work examines how hearing works with vision, seeking a new way of a comprehension of text, sound, and consciousness that are constantly in the process of ‘becoming’ in terms of conceptualization. In the work, the text as information is represented in a semantic way in which multiple layers of text images are connected to each other, blurring linear narratives. As it wEre aims to examine what is generally understood to be language as an instrument for conveying information and how spoken words and their meanings are conceptually enhanced when the structures of language are fragmented, creating impressionistic approaches to the texts. The work adapts John Cage’s mesostic performance work, “What You Say." In a mesostic, vertical text intersects the middle lines of horizontal text, forming an acrostic poem. This unique composition results in capital letters aligned vertically, creating empty spaces between lines.

        as it Were 
			   anotHer world
	  		        A whole or
			                    The best one can of it
   suddenlY
			     sOmething
				       move
	     miniatUrized

               […]

                 oF it
	    	a whole sUbject
			         aNd then
		    a whole Can be
		                  whaT you say about
		        It
		               Occupy it
   	a whole caN
	    		hAve
   different timeS and
			    tAkes
   can be throWn
	                       and perHaps at the same time
			    Or
	how does one deaL with
		                 diffErent times and

               hoW
	     about my tenDency
		               thrOwn into a
		        thEn
	    and then be inSerted
	my tendency tO
	            move iNto it

— Excerpt from “What you say”