Transient #6

Pedro Oliveira

Title	Transient #6
Title (en)	Transient #6
Author	Pedro Oliveira
Description (en)	Transients is a series of performances that simultaneously work with and against the possibility of a form of media-archaeological listening. They activate a historical object, the Subharchord II synthesiser built by the GDR in East Berlin in 1964. The piece listens to the ways in which its material-technical composition resonates in the present and, more specifically, how its filter design reappears as a constitutive component for the algorithm of the so-called “dialect recognition software,” a proprietary machine learning solution used in Germany since 2017 for cases of undocumented asylum seekers since 2017. Because we cannot listen to how this software listens, engaging with the filter in the Subharchord II allows for sonic and historical juxtapositions at the limits of history, offering a “para-genealogy” of machine listening and its connections with the building of a nation, its people, and, more importantly, its others.
Category	Audio/Sound Aufführung
Type of project / creative work	Sound Performance
Keywords	Flüchtling Medienarchäologie Machine Listening DDR Dialect Recognition Software Synthesizer
Date	26.10.2024
Location: institution	Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe
Location	Lichtbrücke
City	Karlsruhe
Country	Deutschland
Internetlinks	https://www.aftermemory.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfBve91jdJ85Az…
Remarks	The event was streamed through ZKM Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfBve91jdJ85Az…