Chant
2004, Sandy Smith

Chant was a one-day installation/performance using around 40 Apple computers, based in the same basement space as The Blackhouse. Each computer in the installation was running basic text-to-speech software, which processed a text file designed to sound like a chant, by using long strings of repeated vowels. The end result was a confusing mass of synthesised computer voices, running slightly out of sync with each other, but forming a definite chant, similar to Gregorian monk song.

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Many thanks to The Glasgow School of Art for donating the computers used to create this piece.