This work has been created as an octophonic site-specific work, a binaural headphone installation and for a VR environment. The contribution of the women at the Braun factory in Carlow is inherited and passed on, even if unknowingly. Despite the limited documentation, it is lived through people, families and friends. A key theme in this work is women's voices, and how technology might be influencing how we listen to these voices. This work seeks to highlight some of the potential implications of women's voices being used for AI systems, which are often not designed by women. The woman is in the machine, but the woman is not the machine. In the piece, the voice of the woman is altered by technology throughout, and the same phrase is often repeated to allow the listener to observe how technology might influence the meaning they derive from the words. The sound world suggests how the building could have sounded, some sounds of items that would have been made there are used and processed.

Commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32903