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Audiovisual artwork exploring the female voice The source materials for Peep Show consist of interviews with female vocalists discussing their experiences and relationships with band members male and female audiences managers and sound crews and imagessounds of my vocal cords in action I was assisted by the National Voice Centre and ENT surgeon Dr Jonathan Livesey to carry out endoscopy to capture the video of my vocal cords This involved the insertion of a probe containing a miniaturised camera through the nasal cavity and down into the back of the throat An ambiguous play on female sexual physiology is thus deliberately established to counterpoint the monologues of the women All of the sound materials are voice at times untreated and at other times subjected to various digital processing and resynthesis methods such as convolution mutation and granular synthesis The original piece was mixed for 4 channel surround The installation piece is binaurally encoded to produce an immersive listening experience Technical Considerations The piece was created using Media 100 ProTools SoundHack SoundEffects Peak Premiere Photoshop Kurzweil K2000 and was mixed in 4 channel surround at the University of Western Sydney using a Yamaha O2R All of the sound materials are voice at times untreated and at other times subjected to various digital processing and resynthesis methods such as convolution mutation and granular synthesis The piece was originally conceived as a multichannel work but to avoid inherent problems of sound works in gallery spaces intruding on other works a second version was conceived as a binaural mix for headphones As can be seen in the above photograph the headphonebinauralgallery version is presented as if it were a peep show where the audience must peer through a slot in a door to see the video image whilst wearing the headphones see photos This achieved the desired intimacy for the viewer and the sense of being a voyeur
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Added: 25th November 2008
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