autotune. tk / François Parra

Vernissage February 13th 2008 at 20h
February 14th to 17th / Hall de Méduse 

Autotune.tk is a program that composes its own pieces of music by pulling from a database containing pop(ular) songs performed and recorded by “you and I.”  To record these pieces, Francois Parra will use a recording studio booth in a passageway in the middle of Meduse Co-op, allowing each visitor to stop in, if he/she wishes, and record in everyday life situations, inducing an intimate connection with song.  The program itself, after the recording and analysis of the file, will add each new song to the other voices, and blend it in an ongoing composition process.  The result could be heard on www.autotune.tk (where one may also connect from home to record a song.)

Inspired by the awareness that people sing in all types of situations (parties, at meals, protest marches, in bathrooms), this device allows not only to preserve a footprint of these moments, but also to make of it something other than a quote.  After having offered something unique to the machine, that is, your voice, it will in return offer you its own versions of your recordings – one never knows beforehand what will come out.