Raise Your Voice is an interactive art installation exploring the authority gap between age groups. While the youngest generation has important ideas, minors are generally taken less seriously than adults and they struggle to be heard and considered. Changing societal biases is too slow a process, so Raise Your Voice provides a tongue-in-cheek shortcut. It levels the playing field for children and juveniles by converting their voices into adult voices. Speakers of any age record statements and dialogs at the installation and choose to listen to the converted recordings in private or broadcast them to radios distributed on site. Decoupling speakers from utterances allows listeners to reflect on how they perceive what was said and uncover associated biases. Raise Your Voice teaches us to listen more carefully to those who are not currently in charge but will make the biggest difference in the future.
Bios
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Photo: Franziska SafranekJan Schlüter
DE
Jan Schlüter has been pursuing research on deep learning for audio processing since 2010. His interests also include machine listening for music and bioacoustics. Schlüter is currently a postdoctoral university assistant at the Institute of Computational Perception of Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He also teaches at the university.
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Photo: Silvan David PeterSilvan David Peter
CH
Silvan David Peter is a researcher at the Institute of Computational Perception of Johannes Kepler University, Linz. His research interests include the evaluation of and interaction with computational models of musical skills, in particular synchrony, entrainment and flow of musical time. He holds an MSc in Mathematics from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Credits
Concept: Jan Schlüter and Silvan David Peter, JKU Linz
Software: Jan Schlüter, JKU Linz
Design: Beatriz Lacerda, BILDWERK
Installation: Leonard Pokropek, BILDWERK
Radio transmission: Ralf Rudersdorfer, JKU Linz
Special thanks: Matthew Baas et al. for kNN-VC, Simon Stromberger for preliminary experiments
