GLOBE
2008
Globe is a location-mapped language instrument for exploring the transition between verbal recognition and incoherence. Small silver knobs are attached
at the locations of several different countries on a globe. Each knob is connected to a potentiometer that controls a sample of a language spoken in that
specific country. The rotation of the globe controls all of the samples simultaneously, affecting the languages' playback positions and layering.
Potentiometers installed inside of a globe and at its base (its South Pole) talk through an Arduino microprocessor to an XBee transmitter. An XBee
receiver talks to a computer and to Pure Data to play language samples (English, Ukrainian, Turkish, Laos, and Kiswahili).
The video below is from the performance of Globe at the 2008 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Concert at Exit Art.