EVERYTHING SOUNDS LIKE CRYING EVENTUALLY
2019, ongoing
installation, interactive online environment

with Michelle Bunton, as Tear Jerkers

This series of studies builds towards a participatory karaoke performance of a song-that-sounds-like-crying. We are interested in the queer qualities of karaoke, with its potential for amateur performance, social promiscuity, public intimacy and shared embarrassment.

The first study is an installation at Art & Media Lab with mics mounted on rotating C-stands around a central speaker. As participants vocalize into the mics, the feedback loop initiates a growing wail. The second study is an interactive online environment where multiple players can move around the virtual space as a teardrop avatar. Proximity to other players and objects in the space trigger different sounds, and the possibility of a polyphonous song. 

acknowledgements: Cam Miller, for his integral advice on audio equipment. Matthan, for his programming expertise and collaboration on the online environment