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Pythia

Greek myth of the oracle of delphi, to share a glimpse of the future. Pythia offered several prophecies: all of them vague, misleading and in some cases true. It is said she predicted the trojan war. Only ever told 3 prophecies that came true. Bathing in water, drinking from a stream and pouring cold water on a goat, if it shivered she was ready to tell a prophecy.

Pythia is the title of my sound piece of 7 poems.

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I have begun setting up my final piece, this consists of a directional speaker attached to a ceiling in a walkway. I have selected 7 poems from a book I am making to be played on the speaker. The sound will be louder as you walk underneath and from the darker side seen behind here, you cannot hear it, when immerse in the larger space the sound resonates above you.

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Directional Speaker Experiments

I continued to experiment with audio by using directional speakers. These types of speakers meant that you only heard the audio within direct ear shot of the speak and for up to a 20 metre radius. These speakers allowed the sound to resonate and bounce off of walls or buildings if outside, meaning it would catch people off guard. I wanted to use this idea and have the speakers hidden within the exhibition so that all you heard was the resonating sound and would catch it unexpectedly, left wondering where the sound has come from and eager to listen in for more

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Audio Considerations

I have to consider other modes of audio for presenting my poems but still containing that element of intimacy.

Options:

- Headphones

- Receiver like in flats

- Old phone relevant to my era Nokia 3310

- Speakers or Directional Speakers

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Poetry Phone

I began experimenting with sound, by recording me reading the poems, I did so in a way of prose poetry, almost as if I’m reading a story or having a conversation, reflectively. I recorded all the poems I’ve written and broke it down into 7 poems which flow in their context and are expression of my mind.

I bought a 70′s style rotary phone and rewired it so that you can hear the poems through the receiver on the phone. I enjoyed the effect this gave as you felt as though when you picked up the phone you were listening in on something that you shouldn't be.

After a lot of discussion the phone seemed irrelevant to the work and made it sentimental, a look on the past but not my past. 

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FMP Change

So after a lot of thought and discussion, the typewriter piece was not achieving it’s purpose, I was told to consider bringing the poems themselves to the forefront of my work and so I did so. I have continued on with typing poems on the typewriter, these poems are simply thoughts and expressions of my internal world. 

I now had to consider how I could present the poems. The poems still tie in with the typewriter piece as they are a way of expression but still ambiguous, when reading you know it’s someones personal thoughts but there isn’t enough to know exactly what is going on. Playing on this theme of distance, like an attempt to tell you something but it still becomes blurred, misunderstood.

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Walking in My Mind - Adventure into the artists's imagination. 23 June - 6 September. Summer exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London. Artists include Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson.

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Success of making the 'B' key print 'Y' and the 'Y' key print 'B'

Work in progress

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The biggest challenge, to alter the keys on the typewriter, so that whatever you want to type isn't achieved, playing on the idea that our thoughts aren't always understood, or we struggle to communicate fully what we want. Our conscience or unconscious holds onto things, like a form of repression. Keeping inside the things that are underlying all else, concepts I am looking into.

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Artist CV

Layout of the CV playful on his work interesting idea.

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Using her voice, performance, video, the printed page and digital media, Emmanuelle Waeckerle investigates language and connecting issues of place and identity. She enjoys walking the line separating truth from fiction, virtuality from reality.