Unvoiced Territories

With this application you can enter, activate and attend artwork Unvoiced Territories by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec. For more on the art project please visit:
www.unvoicedterritories.net

The app requires permissions for location tracing.

By visiting one of the physical locations of the installation Unvoiced Territories and allowing location tracing you can inhabit and activate this artwork.

This global app will gradually include locations worldwide, with the first version in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Self-made software allows for written text only available on the app to be digitally inscribed on the ground. Prerecorded voices are matched to these locations so that the geographical positions of the written letters on the map correspond to their speech sounds. When you switch on the app and traverse the written text in the city, your phone emits the sounds of the phonemes according to where on the written text you are or move over in real time. This allows you to sonically and spatially navigate, inhabit and explore the speech voices, as you wander through the city and move through the text.

Credits:
Unvoiced Territories (2021)
Project by:
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec

Software development:
TeaTracks (Jan T.v. Falkenstein)
Audio DSP based on work by Jushua Parmenter

Voices:
Rada Kovačević, Brigita Gračner, Špela Trošt, Luke Thomas Dunne, Erika Johnson Debeljak, Dalibor Novković , Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.

Built with JUCE, OpenStreetMaps, Mapbox and Flutter

Produced by:
Sploh Institute and Projekt Atol Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Project supported by:
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana and Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands