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What Dogs Hear is a vocal mimesis from imperceptible signals, electromagnetic waves and radio waves beyond the human hearing range and recorded in and around the broadcasting stations of the national radio and TV station in Ljubljana.
The work has been presented with Slovenian vocalists in the form of several performances and an installation for a wide audience. The tangibility of bodily sounds gets a focus during the performances. The performers' vocalizations will be heard via special microphones and amplified through an installation that can be manipulated by the audience. 
The vocal mimesis is a metaphor for knowledge, understanding and communication, giving voice to our daily radiation footprint. An inperceptible wave trail of our existence is made audible by using the human voice as a "transducer”. The mimesis is a vocal interpretation, a transformation of what we cannot perceive. The wave production in our daily life is a growing residue in our surrounding existence. The ubiquitous but elusive trace of our modern existence since the development of the electric society. Through a technological transformation process, inaudible frequencies are brought into the audible range. Various tools are used to record these frequencies to enable in-situ transformations. For the vocalizations, we work with a layering technique that further unravels frequencies, melodies, noise, harmonic patterns and textures so that they can be vocalized. The resulting fragments are reassembled in different layers. For the vocalization, we worked layer by layer with the vocalists in Ljubljana. The final composition, through vocalizations, will balance between mechanical/mathematical/electronic and analog/human/musical. 
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