tekhnē

During his project Dubwise Machine Listening, Pedro Oliveira is working on the limits and failures of machine listening when it comes to what is it that a classification and identification algorithm understands as “voice” or “language.” In approaching the inner workings of voice and language recognition systems with the mentality of dub music – of distorting, delaying, re-purposing, and versioning a given input – he intends to research and apply a methodology to uncover different paths for the flow of sonic information inside a given system which disregards linear correlations between input and output in favor of a poetic, dubbed out, ambiguous listening experience.