diploma project

VoXboX: A Visual History of Voice

'VoxboX' is an interactive web-based visualisation that represents technological interventions in the realm of human voice.It has been informed through a historical investigation into the techniques, philosophies and contexts underlying artificial voice synthesis over the last 300 years. This was supported through related enquiries into the physics and physiology of voice production. A parallel line of research focused on auditory perception and the range of expressive potentialities of human voice.

These threads of explorations were integrated along the dimensions of 'physiology', 'physics' and 'perception.' These themes were visualised as the three axes of a cube in Euclidean space. Visual mapping techniques were borrowed from the practices of qualitative research to define characteristics and plot various voice-artifacts onto this emergent framework. The interactions were designed so that modes of accessing knowledge were non-linear and open for individual engagement and interpretation.

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