NOISECODE

_status:
This personal project was set and driven
individually. Although alredy in the stage
when it can be presented, it is in fact still
work in progress...

_about:
NOISECODE is about code in language.
It is a personal investigation of the role
of alphabet—the coding system we use
on the daily basis. Two aspects are here
of main interest to me:
1) Transliteration—a systematic process
of converting a text from one notation
system to another. In NOISECODE there
are four correlating notation systems:
typography, shapes, noises and colours.
2) Defamiliarisation—V. Shklovski wrote:
'the purpose of art is to impart the sensa-
tions of things as they are perceived and
not as they are known'. This is also my
goal in NOISECODE—to emphasize that
alphabet is a constructed writing system
which could have been fully different.

NOISECODE is an alternative writing
system. It is both visual and aural.
It consists of sound, shape and colour.
Currently it supports three languages:
English, Polish and Italian with regard
to the uniqueness of every one of these.

NOISECODE operates in a multimedia
environment of an applet written in Java,
which facilitates transformations between
type, speech, colour, noise and shape.
A customised keyboard is its core tool
for transliterating from the very familiar
QWERTY key set into enstranged NOISE
vocabulary and vice versa.

NOISECODE was coded in Processing.
I also used Minim audio library and
FreeTTS text-to-speech Java engine.
Built with support of Mloda Polska grant.

Personal project at Central St Martins
MA Communication Design.
2010