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Anja Wiese «Poem Machine»
Anja Wiese, «Poem Machine», 1994
Photograph: Uwe Walter | © Anja Wiese


 
Anja Wiese «Poem Machine»Anja Wiese «Poem Machine»

Categories: Installation | Sound

Keywords: Apparatus | Voice

Works by Anja Wiese:

trance machine


Germany | Photograph: Uwe Walter
 

 Anja Wiese
«Poem Machine»

«Civilized Animism (Poem Machine)» consists of 16 tape recorders connected to each other and arranged in a circle. An endless loop is transported over the heads of the machines. The volume of the devices is adjusted differently and in accordance with the room. The sound track is composed of 1-meter-long tone sequences copied one after another, in which a human voice (the artist) imitates animal noises. The sequences of noises repeat irregularly, resulting in a (machine-produced) voice/noise orchestra that is amplified by the echo in the room. 'Civilized Animism' is dedicated to the Fluxus artist Dick Higgins, who coined the term 'intermedia' at the end of th 1950s.