Symphonic Morphemes is an exploration of speech (the speaking voice), song (the singing voice), and letterforms (the visual voice). It investigates communication systems such as these, breaking them down, and then recombining them in order to form new vehicles of meaning and expression. -The exploration revolves around a poem and a score specifically written for this piece that challenge different ways of looking at speech, song and letterforms. Symphonic Morphemes is an interactive installation which conducts participants through different emotional stages that come from feeling overwhelmed, to silence, to being lost and then to finally understanding how all these combinations come together to form meaning out of seemingly disparate emotional, visual and auditory elements.

The piece is made for an audience, which is willing to contribute time, curiosity and openness. It involves a process of learning, and will be completed by the user’s interaction. Symphonic Morphemes aims for an intimate experience, which reflects itself in the simple and sensual set up, consisting out of an old wooden table, a chair, an empty diary with loose diary pages next to it, a pair of head phones and a projection of a graphical music score onto the wall in front of the table. As the participant puts the headphones on, an aural composition of forest ambient sound, steps, breathing and singing voice can be heard. When the loose diary pages are put into the empty diary, spoken word fragments or sung melodies are audible and typographical elements, as well as imagery become viewable through the projection.

The project is realized by using RFID technology for the hardware part combined with Max/MSP/Jitter a Graphical programming environment as the software.