She Was A Video
performed at: Kunstverein München
collaborators: Paul Pinto
She Was A Video
When Paul Pinto and I were asked by the Kunstverein München to perform Robert Ashley’s “She Was A Visitor” as part of a tour of Germany in 2021, we approached it as a participatory and durational performance which would go on all night long. To support the duration and provide a visual point of interest, I created software to listen to whoever was saying “She Was A Visitor” into the microphone and, using the Carnegie-Mellon Pocketsphinx Open-Source Text-to-Speech software, created an ever-changing and ever growing tapestry of the various IPA symbols being spoken into the microphone.