Ute Wassermann (b. 1960)
Windy Gong, 1995

Singing through a gong… just about the right level of craziness, if you ask me. Wassermann wears a little transducer thingy on her hand connected to a mic she sings into – letting the thingy to hit a gong, causing it to vibrate along with her voice…

I am interested in irregular assemblages that defy everyday classifications, I am interested in wearables and interactions between body and objects… There is also some indirect relation to my Artificial Ignorance Choir. The choir is digital, but at the same it emulates natural speech – in Wassermann’s case the speech is natural, but it sounds as if it was not… I am not sure yet of meanings and implications of that, but such transformations enable different perspectives that are potentially generative of new insights and meanings.