CNC Sound Carve

An Exploration of sound, materialization and space. A collaboration of Spoken word, poetry, design and digital art. An audio engineer recorded binaural sounds of inner city Johannesburg. The tracks were played back to a poet who wrote was inspired to describe her feelings in the form of a poem called “Kospotong”. A spoken word artist performed the poem in the same physical space, documented and recorded by audio engineer. The recording were taken by the artist and transformed by the chosen  algorhythm to decimate the sound waves reforming them into machine code (gcode). The gcode was adapted and fed into a CNC router within physical earshot of the original recording. The resulting form was carved out of a piece of found scrap timber within the physical vicinity of the sound recording, results of which are visible in the picture below.