breath extractor

The project breath extractor is a reflection on interpretations and transitions between the natural and artificial, analog and digital in the context of sound. Analyzing the construction, essential decisions, and techniques applied during the processing of audio data, I think about the trust in the given technologies, available solutions and their actual presence in decision-making, everyday activities, workflows, and social environments.

Do learning strategies constitute a solid basis for the objective assistance of a trained machine? What should be considered? How is the natural perceived and interpreted? Which features are or could become the most important? How can distortion be understood?

The project is an exploration of architectures, features, and sonic outcomes of ML-based processing, based on the recorded sound of a coherent breath. Familiar, organic timbre — the sound of of a human presence and living processes is interpreted, examined, and re- or de- constructed by artificial processes.

The structure of the 4-channel sound installation is built from a recorded sound of a human breath that, in intervals of time, reveals its de- constructed or re- constructed — extracted — versions, introducing sieved particles of detected distortions.

set:
2023 – galerie weisser elefant Berlin – as a part of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt on the edge of group exhibition curated by Hannah Kruse and Laure Catugier
2023 – Wilhelminenhofstr. 83-85 Berlin, Gebäude 60

photo:
Miłosz Szczęsny
Sebastian Eggler