30 Mar Test- Arseverse Audio – Outcome 5 Exploratory Project
In a blog post from January 10th I featured 44 monoprints with titles relating to echoes from inside the labyrinth. [There is a love of words within your journal, especially January 10th, could these actually start to infiltrate the artworks?] I was interested to see how the words would sound.
I used some free voice to text software to test the outcome. I was pleased with the robotic punctuated breathless chant that came from the experiment. I tried 2 versions so I’d be glad of your opinions/preferences. Scripts below. I may use this in an installation, with the previously made fabric forms.
Script for cut 1
Sumbebekos – an accident
Eudaimonia – happiness welfare
Henosis – mystical “oneness” unity
Formation – the action of being formed
Cubiculum – a small bedroom
Sacred Home – a shelter for your soul
Impregnable – unable to be captured or broken into
Intricate Order – a complex arrangement
Understanding – a relation between the knower and an object of understanding
Monad – a term, a “unit” used by philosophers to signify a variety of entities from a genus to God
Parataxis – a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences
Oscillatory game – a game that returns to its original state
Silent thoughts – words that come from the void
Intersections – where roads meet and cross
Cross-connections – a connection made between two or more distinct things
Elucidate – make something clear
Entelecheia – actuality
Nous – common sense
Allusions – a passing reference
Vavilons – Babylon
Interpolation – the insertion of something of a different nature into something else
Caerdonia – neolithic structures in Wales
Colliding – coming into opposition with something
Hermenutic – interpretation
Spaciality – countable and uncountable, plural spacialities
Tranquil – free from disturbance
Energeia – the actualisation of potential
Poly functional – Having multiple different or same functional groups in the same compound
Conspicuously – in a clearly visable way
Lingering – lasting for a long way
Petroglyph – images engraved into rocks
Ancestral Path – ancient spirituality
Actualitas – anything which is currently happening
Unrolling the thread – seeing the story unfold
Apotropaic – have the power to ward off evil influences
Chakravyuha – indian circular battle formation
Ward off – to keep something from happening
Traces Echoes – visual clues and sounds left behind
Segments – divide something into different parts
Somatic – relating to the body
Fragments – a small piece thats come from a larger whole
Fissure – a tear in the body or a rock
Reconstructs – to reform a structure
L’itoi – the man in the maze
Script for Cut 2
Sumbebekos
Eudaimonia
Henosis
Formation
Cubiculum
Sacred Home
Impregnable
Intricate Order
Understanding
Monad
Parataxis
Oscillatory game
Silent thoughts
Intersections
Cross-connections
Elucidate
Entelecheia
Nous
Allusions
Hermenutic
Spaciality
Tranquil
Energeia
Poly functional
Conspicuously
Lingering
Petroglyph
Ancestral Path
Actualitas
Unrolling the thread
Apotropaic
Chakravyuha
Ward off
Traces Echoes
Segments
Somatic
Fragments
Fissure
Reconstructs
L’itoi
Bob spoke to me of an arseverse* and I may yet inscribe the words into some wood. I just need to get my hands on a pyrography tool. In written form the script for cut 2 takes the form of an arseverse.
*ARSEVERSE, n. A spell written on the side of a house to ward off fire.s.Sc. 1898 G. W. M. in E.D.D.:
Known by old persons some years ago.Rxb. 1825 Jam.2:
Arsé-Versé. A sort of spell used to prevent the house from fire, or as an antidote to Arson, from which the term is supposed to be derived.[Most prob. borrowed from north.Eng. dial. The acute accent in Jamieson’s spelling seems to show a confusion between the word and arsy-versy, q.v. in N.E.D. and E.D.D., unless it be the result of an assim. to reduplicated compounds like hurly-burly. Arse from Lat. ars-us, pa.p. of ardēre, to burn + verse = word-spell.]
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/arseverse