I speak this text
radioplay

Christoph Korn, 2008

voice : Christoph Korn
Recording and Deletion: 17.8.2008, Studio Duesseldorf
the recording has been made with the internal microphone of a mac computer

premiere broadcasting: January 2009 by "Hessischer Rundfunk"
MAX/MSP Programming: M. Marcoll and H. Seidl

Duration: 15´36´´

The radioplay „I speak this text“ ist part of the intermedia work „Waldstueck“

What can be heard is a 1 minute spoken text, which is put into a loop. The text describes exactly what will happen to itself, to its semantic structure, as well as to its sound. During a 15 minutes deletion process, the semantic structure of the text and its sound, are successivly overlapping.

"I speak this text. It is recorded on a storage medium using a microphone. Thereafter the recorded text is placed for 15 minutes in a repetitive loop, and within this time it is erased successively bit by bit. For this purpose, a software-based machine has been programmed, which chooses and deletes certain parts of the audio recording using an aleatory procedure.This automatic process is used to avoid any sort of compositional interest, and to direct one’s attention completely toward the process itself.
The sound of my voice. Der Klang meiner Stimme."