CHUNXI CHEN                     WORKS

01   ROBOETHICS  MANIFESTO
02   FLOWING  TILES
03   ‘WE CAN KEEP AN EYE ON HIM’
04   NEURESCAPE  



















































Sound Installstion        2023



ROBOETHICS MANIFESTO is a sound project that explores a way to hear the voice of mechanical language and discusses the possibility of technological entities becoming a new intelligent life race through this language.












I.

    EVOLUTION OF VIRTUAL VOICE




This project was inspired by the virtual voice generated by machines in daily life.

From the recorded voice to the utterances generated by the algorithm, those sound seems presented in accordance with the regularity of developments in vocal synthesis techniques.















II.  

EVOLUTION OF VOCAL SYNTHSIS TECHNIQUES




Synthesized human voices have seamlessly woven into our society.  

Sound interventions seem to be blurring the boundaries between the non-human and the human with advanced synthesized human voices becoming virtually indistinguishable from the real human voice. Can we still discern between the 'real' and the 'virtual'?                    










III.  

VODER




'VODER' is the first human vocal synthesizer. In the experimentation, I focused on VODER, hoping Explore the complex relationship between mechanical sounds and human entities through their extant recordings.



                      About Voder

                      





'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB' is a classic English rhyme. In the earliest recordings of the VODER the operator read this text by operating its ten voice keyboard. The poem is highly representative in the history of vocal synthesis technology.                        ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’

                            
                       


















IV.  

ROBOETHICS MANIFESTO




Increasingly human-like synthesized voices complicate the relationship between technological entities and humans. What will be the end of synthesized human voice technology? Perhaps machinery will develop their own distinct language. 

Will this mean a new race? Will it prompt a revaluation of the definitions of life and non-life? And how should humans reshape our proper relationship with machines?
                                                                                   


For this project I created a ‘Mechanical Declaration of Robot Rights' using design fiction, where technological entities proclaims their rights through an audible mechanical language.





Using a special made microphone, the sound inside electric devices were collected and were used to translate the human language into mechanical language, creating the sequence of a machine’s speech.























































Sound Installstion        2023



ROBOETHICS MANIFESTO is a sound project that explores a way to hear the voice of mechanical language and discusses the possibility of technological entities becoming a new intelligent life race through this language.












I.

    EVOLUTION OF VIRTUAL VOICE




This project was inspired by the virtual voice generated by machines in daily life.

From the recorded voice to the utterances generated by the algorithm, those sound seems presented in accordance with the regularity of developments in vocal synthesis techniques.















II.  

EVOLUTION OF VOCAL SYNTHSIS TECHNIQUES




Synthesized human voices have seamlessly woven into our society.  

Sound interventions seem to be blurring the boundaries between the non-human and the human with advanced synthesized human voices becoming virtually indistinguishable from the real human voice. Can we still discern between the 'real' and the 'virtual'?                    










III.  

VODER




'VODER' is the first human vocal synthesizer. In the experimentation, I focused on VODER, hoping Explore the complex relationship between mechanical sounds and human entities through their extant recordings.



                      About Voder

                      





'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB' is a classic English rhyme. In the earliest recordings of the VODER the operator read this text by operating its ten voice keyboard. The poem is highly representative in the history of vocal synthesis technology.                        ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’

                            
                       


















IV.  

ROBOETHICS MANIFESTO




Increasingly human-like synthesized voices complicate the relationship between technological entities and humans. What will be the end of synthesized human voice technology? Perhaps machinery will develop their own distinct language. 

Will this mean a new race? Will it prompt a revaluation of the definitions of life and non-life? And how should humans reshape our proper relationship with machines?
                                                                                   


For this project I created a ‘Mechanical Declaration of Robot Rights' using design fiction, where technological entities proclaims their rights through an audible mechanical language.





Using a special made microphone, the sound inside electric devices were collected and were used to translate the human language into mechanical language, creating the sequence of a machine’s speech.