New Media: What

Messa di Voce is a collaboration between Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman. The project consists of mircophones placed in front of a projection screen that displays various animations. Viewers are invited to speak into the mircophones and then their voices are interpreted and transformed in various moving images such as “a rain of balls, smoke whorls, cartoon costumes, and line drawings.” The animations are created based on the emitting “pitch, volume, and phonetics” of the vocalization. The project is an interesting attempt to convert a very basic means of communication, voice, into abstract visual representations. The project also draws upon the way words are pronounced providing a graphical interpretation of an intuitive skill, exploring meaning through intonation.