ProteSonics

Greg Giannis / Australia

independent

During the days of the uprising and protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square in 2011, I intercepted tweets that contained the word “Egypt”, using the twitter API. The words in the tweets were converted to sound using an undocumented feature of Google's translation service. The result is an audio-visual work where the words form a constellation and the audio slowly builds over time to create a soundscape resembling a room full of people chattering.