An online collection of audio-visual poetry. These works combine human and AI-generated language, synthetic voices, and physical sound processes to explore rhythm, perception, and the unstable boundary between human and machine authorship. Within the limits of bandwidth it is possible playback more than one sound file at a time.
AI Voice Poetry Works
Above is a social media poem. The video is presented by an AI avatar delivering a script written by a Large Language Model (LLM).
In the three poems below a synthetic voice delivers text generated by a LLM over a shifting electronic soundtrack. The work explores repetition, emotional simulation, and machine expression. Sound programming (using Pure Data) and text editing by a human.
First machine poem - Sorrow.
Second machine poem - Process
Third machine poem - Friction.
A four minute video poem for our times that contextualises this collection. Drawing on customer service rhetoric, self-help discourse, utilitarian philosophy, and honest advertising.
Word Fragments
Short linguistic constructions combining unrelated words to disrupt conventional syntax and provoke associative meaning.
Stethescope, brush, seizure.
Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy was an english linguist, phonetician and writer born in 1912. These are some of the words that he recorded.
A series of three word frames that use Javascript to randomly select words with randomly selected fonts. This is a short selection filmed from the web page on which the code sits with AI generated speech added from a transcript of the results.
Synthetic speech poetry. Repeated letters fed into an early speech synthesiser and interpreted by the software as Swahili and Dutch.
Sound based performance poems.
A small cymbal was struck and then a car horn was attached to a car battery for 30 seconds, the cymbal was struck and the horn connected again - these two events were repeated until the audience left - Holborn, London
Psuedo Ethnochoreological Sonically Aleatoric movement poetry.
Performance poem for dustbin and pedal bin.
Unclassified poems.
Talking to Don about Bigfoot. Scratching applied to poetry. For baritone saxophone and voice.
A cantonese poem. Cantonese is a tonal language - each syllable’s meaning depends on how the pitch rises, falls, or stays level.
Sound painting for human voice with randomly produced sine waves.
Silent vape poem. Activation of the Hiss poem above followed by activation of the arrows on either side of the images will result in an interactive hiss vape poem.
