Text Box is a contemporary approach to the Surrealist technique of writing known as automatic writing, which consists of producing text without being consciously aware of its content. This project uses a letter from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet as a starting point and employs computerized writing without any coercion, so the process is triggered by the sound picked up from its immediate environment.
The software’s ability to interpret the sound as a word is restricted to the grammar file embedded in it, which consists of over a thousand nouns extracted from Rilke’s original text. The match between the input and the grammar file is then displayed on the screen, continuously reconstructing the original letter, regenerating its content and meaning while keeping its original grammatical structure.
Collaboration with Maria M Carrasco.
Built with Processing 1.5.1 & Voce: Open Source Speech Interaction Library.