‘Is There a Speaker Inside That?’ Exploring vocal machines & voice synthesis with artists Mike McShane & Benjamin Whateley
Text by Iris Colomb Mike McShane makes sculptures out of aluminium, silicone, prosthetics, kebab boxes and air. Benjamin Whateley is a developer and computer musician whose aesthetic and process are influenced by club music. Over the past five years, these two Essex and London-based artists have been working with artificial voices, separately, and in their […]
SANTIAGO MORILLA, what lies beneath the multispecies ecologies
Interview by Belén Vera What would you think of an artwork that turns the electrical activity of fungi into sound, not as a metaphor, but as a way of listening to how soil regenerates itself? In the practice of Santiago Morilla, this gesture is not an eccentric experiment but part of a long-term investigation into […]