an·other voice
an·other voice
The exhibition an·other voice is the result of a long research project that the French artist Judith Deschamps carried out with the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Ircam) in Paris in collaboration with the Analyse & Synthèse des sons team, singers of different ages and tessituras and the composer António Sá-Dantas. Together they sought to reinvent, by means of deep neural networks, an 18th century aria that the Italian castrato Farinelli used to sing every night to the King of Spain to soothe his melancholy.
Drawing on the myths surrounding the singer's voice, the fantasies of childhood in the age of castration, and the imaginary world of artificial intelligence in dealing with human finitude, the exhibition brings together sound, video and sculptural materials, paving the way for an entanglement of new sounds and narratives.
Trained in France and the United Kingdom, Judith Deschamps’s (born 1986 in Paris) multidisciplinary approach combines performance, film, sculpture and installation. With a feminist perspective, she invests historical, cultural and religious references to capture contemporary social and technological conceptions and uses. She has just completed a residency in artistic research at Ircam and has exhibited, among others, at Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme and the Fondation Pernod Ricard, in Paris; Frac Bretagne in Rennes; Frac Grand Large in Dunkirk, and De Appel in Amsterdam.
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