Martin Riches (b. 1941, UK)
Teaching the Talking Machine to speak, 1989

Before learning how to sing, one surely needs to learn how to speak 🙂

This seems to be a given predecessor to my Artificial Ignorance Choir. Certainly, Riches’ project is incomparably more complex – he is actually studying human vocal apparatus and constructs electronic organ able to reproduce sounds of human speech. But once people smarter than me have done all the hard work, I can entertain myself by taking the next tiny little step.