GHOSTSONG - 2024
Marble column, headphones, microcontrollers, MaxMSP and phone cases
GhostSong is a device that generates polyphonies from the content of 12 missing youtubers. But what does it mean to disappear on the Internet?
Some have mysteriously abandoned their channel. One is in prison for horrible crimes, another has become a mother. Most have died, either tragically or naturally. What all these youtubers had in common was that they all produced music, often covers, sometimes original compositions. All were singers. Inspired by the pedestals found in video games that give the player an extra life, this installation invites its viewer to move its black heart into space, so that the voices of the dead and the missing mingle together in new, unexpected ways. The heart's different axes of rotation allow to explore different ways of knotting the voices of the dead and making them sing together. Neither nostalgic homage nor macabre archiving, GhostSong is above all a joyful questioning of our relationship with abandoned data and its capacity to weave new worlds in which oblivion and destruction are also playful and creative forces.
Includes works from:
AlenaBVB
Alena Irubor
Austin Jones
Bill Tyers
Cat Janice
Christina Grimmie
EmmanNimedezTV
Hannah Stone
Jackson Odell
Marília Mendonça
Swedish Honey
Zach Sobiech