Like music, language has an underlying rhythm. Different languages have different prosodic patterns. For example, English is stress-timed, which means some syllables are longer, others shorter; whereas Cantonese is syllable-timed, with syllables of equal length. Therefore, the act of speaking itself invariably creates interesting rhythms.
This sound installation is a device, like an interpreter between speech and music. It records the dialogue of two persons, but rather than translating it to another language, an algorithm converts it into rhythm and tone, which is then played by a series of music instruments. Thus by simply speaking to each other, the two interlocutors generate a new piece of music.
