Odd Sonorous
About...
Odd Sonorous is a collective between Anna Fainareti Lioka and Hyewon Suk started from 2021 in Berlin. Exploring the ecological and material perspectives of sound, they constantly rebuild the relationship between subject/object, nature/culture, and human/non-human. With diverse sonic methodologies including critical and decolonial listening, environmental soundscape, and embodied cognition of sound, their work encompasses audio installation, audiovisual work, fixed composition and performance actively adopting the new technologies such as machine learning and multi-channel reproduction.
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S.Abligua x Odekon
2022
“S.Abligua x Odekon” is a experimental film with 4ch audio that actively adapts AI technology as a fundamental artistic imagination/inspiration. The story starts with a discovery of a plant that used to make a sound and is considered extinct. Based on the AI-generated visual and verbal botanic archives, artists went on a journey to find the lost sound. Whether humans lose their ability to hear plant sounds or plant stops making a sound in the human audible range, it appears that all the ecological, social, and political causes of disconnection between human and plant within the speculative storytelling. Odd Sonorous (Anna Phaenarete Lioka and Hyewon Heather Suk) suggests an act of listening as a way of reconciliation, and symbiosis between humans and nature and implements decolonial and decentralized practices realized by current technology.
Intertwined dialect
2021
“Intertwined dialect” is a sound installation created by Anna Fainareti Lioka and Hyewon Suk (Odd Sonorous).Inspired by the spatial characteristics of the Floating University, where human and nature meet in the center of Berlin, “Intertwined dialect” explores the sonic possibilities of symbiosis. By using machine learning technology, specifically MelGAN_VC, the human voice is transformed in to the voice of the birds inhabiting around us or even those that are extinct.
These new synthetic and hybrid creatures are placed back at the natural site of Floating University and draw attention through their own voices, creating a unique intertwined communication between the human and the non-human entities.
