Hissing robots, rattling steam engines, groaning looms, buzzing voices. When does a machine become a voice, and when does a voice become a machine? In Vox Ex Machina, machine sounds and vocal sounds intermingle. They harmonise and collide with one another, forming a choir – and a sound-archaeological landscape. Visitors are invited to compose through their movement in space inside the former machine factory.
The project is a collaboration between sound artists Matthias Millhoff, Lefteris Krysalis & Frederike Moormann and PinPoint GmbH, which developed an indoor positioning system. Together they explore possibilities and idiosyncrasies of spatial sound.
Vox Ex Machina is a project within the cross-sectoral program of the Funken Academy and is based on a prototype developed at the Funken Kolleg for the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.
