Enter a mouth of sound, and listen to a tribute to Gyorgi’s Ligeti’s “Poem Symphonique for 100 metronomes” created using mouth sounds taken from manosphere podcasts.

The installation is based on Mantronome Symphonique, a piece created for the Neutrinowatch podcast. Neutrinowatch is a podcast where every episode changes every day thanks to computer code.

Neutrinowatch created an episode called “The Best Of The Manosphere” where every day, code scrapes the latest episodes of the most disliked podcasts in the world and selects the best parts: the spaces between words (mouth sound, vape noise, reverb tails). It assembles them into a soundscape.

Mantronome Symphonique is a recreation of Gyorgy Ligeti’s 1962 piece, “Poem Symphonique for 100 Metronomes”, in which 100 mechanical metronomes are set to different tempos, started at roughly the same time, and allowed to run down until only one, and then none, remain. Mantronome Symphonique reproduces this with the manosphere mouthsound.

As the cacophony gradually dissipates to silence, we’re reminded that even the most unpleasant of sounds will pass. Or maybe we’re just left wondering why we subjected ourselves to such disagreeable noise.

Martin Austwick + Jeff Emtman

Martin Austwick is a British musician and audio producer based in Vancouver, Canada. Jeff Emtman is an American audio artist based in Berlin, Germany. They created Neutrinowatch in 2021.

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