Sound art installation
Shown as part of the Music Innovations Studies Centre’s jubilee at LMTA
Friday, December 20
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This installation captures recent Internet streams of war coverage in Ukraine, presented in English, and processes the audio through an IRCAM RAVE model trained on Lithuanian language patterns. The result is a transformed, fragmented sound where the urgency of international events is warped into Lithuanian-like speech—a reflection on the loss, reinterpretation, and reshaping of meaning across cultural and linguistic boundaries.
The altered audio is played back through repurposed Soviet-era telephones: obsolete, imperfect communication systems (technological, linguistic, or cultural filters).
At the same time, the installation listens to its immediate environment. This “local” audio is similarly filtered through the Lithuanian-trained model, temporarily substituting the news feed. This substitution relates to the immediate reality and conversations, despite the events in Ukraine. A contrast between the global and the local.
All photos by Tomas Terekas
