Notes to Notes
Notes to Notes is a piece I made to explore sensory transference as a way to sustain sensitivity in a world of overload. It grew out of my work as an ethnographer, where after enough interview transcripts people start flattening into data points stripped of real experience, a fatigue I think holds for any channel consumed in volume, from news headlines to social feeds. My thesis: if one sense has been worn down by overuse, redirect the signal to one that hasn't. Inspired by braille's logic of shifting load from a primary sense to a secondary one, I built an algorithm that translates transcripts into music. Semantic charge maps to major or minor register; pauses and grammatical cues become rhythm shifts and instrument changes, producing a 1:1 musical rendering of a transcript. The argument is that sensitivity isn't a soft skill but an instrument: a form of attention constant consumption trains us out of, and one we can train back.
Notes to Notes
Notes to Notes is a piece I made to explore sensory transference as a way to sustain sensitivity in a world of overload. It grew out of my work as an ethnographer, where after enough interview transcripts people start flattening into data points stripped of real experience, a fatigue I think holds for any channel consumed in volume, from news headlines to social feeds. My thesis: if one sense has been worn down by overuse, redirect the signal to one that hasn't. Inspired by braille's logic of shifting load from a primary sense to a secondary one, I built an algorithm that translates transcripts into music. Semantic charge maps to major or minor register; pauses and grammatical cues become rhythm shifts and instrument changes, producing a 1:1 musical rendering of a transcript. The argument is that sensitivity isn't a soft skill but an instrument: a form of attention constant consumption trains us out of, and one we can train back.