Ear to Mouth | jeremy-keenan-sound

Ear to Mouth is a single speaker as an animated feedback object, with four microphones and a speaker creating feedback and controlling the motion of the speaker, which in turn defines the level of the feedback, which then influences the movement of the speaker, which again controls the level of feedback. The feedback is processed using a live digital input which is also influenced by the motion of the speaker and the sound it produces.

This work seeks to imagine the speaking and listening body distilled to a conversation between its basic elements - the ear and the mouth.

Speaker, motors, microphones, microcontroller, custom code.

Originally presented in 5 channel sound at Goldsmiths College, London, UK 2009.