The Screaming Image II, 2021

Sound Design: Zeno Lösch
Coding, UI: Daniel Morandini, Andrea Kaus

The performance The Screaming Image II connects the spoken word to digital images and seeks to highlight how they affect meaning and change our perception of words. The image “screams” into spatial and aural dimensions, influencing the subject’s ability to communicate according to his intentions. Every word spoken by the performer is recognised by a speech-to-text system (Google API) and searched online in Google Images. The resulting images are projected simultaneously with the performance, creating a juxtaposition of spoken word and image. Each image also emits a sound at the moment it is projected, generated as follows: A program scans the image from left to right, extrapolating data from the pixel composition and colour distribution that is then used to modulate fifteen sine curves and thus generate an improvised musical composition. The performer plays a role, but may improvise according to the projected images.

The Screaming Image II has been presented at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in Silandro/Schlanders during the initiative DenkMalFest in August 2021.

Realised with the support of BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Silandro/Schlanders and with the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Department for Italian Culture.