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Voice recording
Audio, installation project , 2015
Kabbalah Hermetica "The language of the birds, or Kabbalah Hermetica, is that mythical universal language that existed before the tower of Babel, which later resulted in the diversification of all languages. The sound file is a recording of a person that can whistle and chirp like a bird. By putting the two speakers in synchrony with each other, the viewer gets the sense that they are two people communicating to each other. The work tries to create the same atmosphere that one might have heard in the Tower of Babel, before it fell, when all the people spoke the same language and had the power to create great things. This sound works deals with the concept of language and the importance of language in the contemporary transitory world through which we are passing"