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brilliant essay on glitch linguistics: the Machine in the Ghost Static Trapped Mouths by Curt Cloninger

 

 

 

 

 

 

GltchLnguistx: The Machine in the Ghost / Static Trapped in Mouths Curt Cloninger 2010

Republished in Nictoglobe, Vol. 18, Issue 4 (2010), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with the kind permission of Curt Cloninger
'This essay applies Mikhail Bakhtin's language theory of "the utterance" to the machinic event of "the glitch" in order to illuminate contemporary glitch art practices, and to suggest fruitful ways in which they might proceed. I understand "the glitch" to be an affective event generated by a media machine (computer, projector, game console, LCD screen, etc.) running in real-time, an event which creates an artifact that colors and modulates any "signal" or "content" being sent via that machine. In 1962, John Glenn famously defined "glitch" as "a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current."¹ "Glitch" has since come to demarcate a set of audio/visual artistic practices which capture, exploit, and produce glitch artifacts.
My goal is not to end all conversation about glitch art by ontologically overdetermining what a glitch is and how exactly it works. Instead, I pose this specific, particular position in the hopes of ending some of the more dead-end and circular conversations about the glitch. I also hope this essay will open up more fruitfully problematic conversations, and will lead to less banal, more conceptually rigorous works of art.' ... for more click here

Half of the world's 6500 to 7000 languages are expected to disappear this century.

How to Say a Few Words in 10 Languages That Will Soon Be Extinct

from the editor's desk

wanyaninji najba juka kukulinya / nganbi-nyingayu yadajba kukudi

"What do you see, Grandson? I'm waiting for lilyseed, Granny." Garrwa, an aboriginal language spoken by forty people in Northern Australia.
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taturaaiiwaatista

"I am going to tell a story." Pawnee, a Caddoan language spoken by fewer than ten people in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
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pe: a:n-dE-pE-gEt jarqE pod'ol'E-gEt pojn'a:-s'i:-l tude o:Zi:-gElE jarqEdEn emej oj mi:dE c'uru:d'E

"From the bottom of the mountains, from the whiteness of the ice, our mother Jarxadan quietly carries its shining water downstream." [Listen.] Forest Yukagir, a Paleosiberian language spoken by thirty people in the Sakha Republic of Russia.
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nee'ééstoonéhk bíi3néhk noh héétniini núhu' hee3éihi' ee3eihi'

"If you do that, if you eat it, then you will be the way we are." Arapaho, a Plains Algonquian language spoken by 200 fluent elders on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and by students of the language immersion school they founded in 2008.
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nyingka ngudi-na wangalk, ngoda ngumban-ju burldi-nyarr

"Don't you throw the boomerang, or I'll throw one at you." Kayardild, a Tangkic language spoken by eight people on islands off the northwest coast of Queensland, Australia.
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neriki nka henowapa to ka vekon

"Nowadays they cannot speak any more." Baure, an Arawakan language spoken by thirteen people in the Beni Department of Bolivia.
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jere'xwa tejāwā'wy hyhy'rwata dutu're txe'hy kahe'hy ka'heta jo'bwatsyhy ha'dytehyhyrwa'hykijāhy

"The jaguar walks in the dark, grabs wild pigs, bites and eats them, and walks while he shits, it is like that." Kwaza, an indigenous language spoken by 25 people in western Brazil.
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útel kóono mahínti

"It's a white man's gun, you know." Lake Miwok, an Utian language spoken by three people in Northern California.
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Dulumto bäsani olodo bui anči sugzäda anči

"This is the river Dulumtu, where there are neither animals nor fish." Udege, a Tungusic language spoken by forty people in Far Eastern Russia.
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O:-sa:go:-hobi lamthi:-ni lo:-t-a

"I feel like hitting the road." Dumi, a Kiranti language spoken by eight people in the Khatang district of Nepal.

Susan Hiller's Last Silent Movie- wonderful work

The Last Silent Movie opens the unvisited, silent archives of extinct and endangered languages to create a composition of voices that are not silent. They are not silent because someone is listening. The work sets free some of the ghosts and spectres haunting the unacknowledged unheimlich of sound recording which allows us to hear the words and voices of people mostly now dead. In The Last Silent Movie, some of them sing, some tell stories, some recite vocabulary lists and some of them, directly or indirectly, accuse us, the listeners, of injustice.

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robot song sings scatt

this was one of the earliest Vocaloid songs ever 'created'. I still remember that amazed fascination I felt, watching "robots" sing so well...

heres some others- 'Miriam' vocaloid songs

Vocaloid MIRIAM Demos:MIRIAM Demo: "Never Give Up".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Andy Power.
MIRIAM Demo: "Is This It?".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren.
MIRIAM Demo: "Under The Moon".
(NOTE: All vocals on this demo are sung by Vocaloid MIRIAM). Composed, Programmed and Produced by Anders Sodergren.
but these are the ones I rea-aly like... scatt'n away

LEON+LOLA Demo: "Dupdah".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). A humorous piece featuring a kind of non-verbal "scatting", featuring LOLA and LEON singing together. This one illustrates Vocaloid's freedom! You can use any sounds a human could utter, and more! As you can see, rhythmically, harmonically, and melodically speaking, the sky's the limit! Written, programmed and produced by Anders Sodergren.
LEON+LOLA Demo: "Freaky Sheep".
(NOTE - All vocals on this demo are by either Vocaloid LOLA or Vocaloid LEON). An abstract avant garde piece of rhythmic vocal sculpture (or to put it another way, weird) that illustrates how easy it is to explore new sonic territory with Vocaloid. Written, programmed and produced by Joe Hogan. Who did Joe get to sing what? Basically its 50/50 between the two singers. The harmonised stereo delay arpeggio type thing at the start is LOLA on the left and LEON on the right. The offbeat "sha" that comes in is both singers, again panned left and right. The "sar" bassline is Lola (way below her natural range!). The "ah, ah, ah, ah, ah" 4-part block chords figure contains two of each singer. The really high pitched tune that comes in at 0:24s is LEON (way above his range!). The whispered "taka-taka" thing that can be heard clearly at 0:33s is LEON, and that kind of bassy pitched kick-drum type sound that happens at the same time is also LEON. Switching between singers during a sequence is easy with Vocaloid.

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One Point English Lesson 5