Cacophonic Choir: An Interactive Installation
Keywords: Interactive Installation, Machine Learning, Sonic Interaction Design, Digital Design and Fabrication, Embodied Interaction, Physical Computing

Photo credit: Gökhan Tugay Şeker

Cacophonic Choir (2019) is composed of nine embodied vocalizing agents distributed in space. ©Şölen Kıratlı & Hannah Wolfe. Photo credit: Gökhan Tugay Şeker
Cacophonic Choir is an interactive installation aimed at bringing attention to the first-hand stories of sexual assault survivors, and the ways such stories may be distorted by the media and in online discourse. The work is composed of nine embodied vocalizing agents distributed in space. Each agent tells a story. From a distance, the viewer hears an unintelligible choir of fragmented stories and distorted voices. As the viewer approaches an agent, the story becomes sonically clearer and semantically more coherent. When in the agent’s immediate personal space, the viewer can hear the first-hand account of a sexual assault survivor. The work has two versions, one intended for physically present exhibitions and the other for virtual exhibitions.
A video asset. Cacophonic Choir (2019) is composed of nine embodied vocalizing agents distributed in space. ©Şölen Kıratlı & Hannah Wolfe.