theuse.info is an effort to render Mann’s dictum in a web-based format— “Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do (where ‘I’ is defined by those changes for which I is required)”.
While performing the function of a portfolio/archive of Mann’s recent works in sound, text and video—its presentation, based on a modular, patch-cord synthesizer, allows the user to listen and compose at once. His sound work, which balances somewhere between lecture, stand-up comedy, Beckett monologue, and a form uniquely Chris Mann, is broken up into short loops that can be played and layered on demand.
In addition, a search bar allows for free-form exploration of the text that each sound piece is based on—entering any keyword brings of fragments of text from across the body of work presented.
Full Description
theuse.info is an effort to render Mann’s dictum in a web-based format— “Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do (where ‘I’ is defined by those changes for which I is required)”.
While performing the function of a portfolio/archive of Mann’s recent works in sound, text and video—its presentation, based on a modular, patch-cord synthesizer, allows the user to listen and compose at once. His sound work, which balances somewhere between lecture, stand-up comedy, Beckett monologue, and a form uniquely Chris Mann, is broken up into short loops that can be played and layered on demand.
In addition, a search bar allows for free-form exploration of the text that each sound piece is based on—entering any keyword brings of fragments of text from across the body of work presented.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2009
- Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday May 4th, 2010
- Original Url: http://theuse.info
- Permalink: http://theuse.info
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Work Credits:
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