title
Phonograph
Artist/Designer
Stephan Kamp
Date
2013–23
type of writing system
Alphasyllabary
Based on
German language, phonetics
References
Optophonetics
Phonograph studies the voice as a complex performative phenomenon and a multidisciplinary subject capable of tracing both individual and societal expressions. Inspired by optophonetics—the field that studies visible speech—the project’s exploration of the voice revolves around the analysis of speech signals in the German language, which were recorded and transformed into graphic symbols. These phonemes, each represented by distinct soundwaves, collectively constitute an alphabet that was organized and output as a typeface. The accompanying book is a complete transcription of Stimme: Annäherung an ein Phänomen (Voice: Approaching a Phenomenon), a philosophical text about the nature of the voice. Altogether, this project encourages contemplation on the intriguing possibility of using printed audio information as a potential alternative to conventional writing methods.
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Artwork courtesy of Stephan Kamp. All rights reserved.
abjad
abugida
acrophony
acrostic
alphabet
alphasyllabary
asemic writing
automatic writing
boustrophedon
character
character set
cipher
code
conscript
cryptography
encode
experimental
grapheme
glyph
hieroglyph
hieroglyphics
imaginarium
language
letter
letterform
linguistic
logosyllabary
logographic
logogram
nat scirpt
neography
optophonetic
phoneme
phonetic
pictograph
quasi
re-worlding
script
syllabary
syllable
symbol
speculative
torus
versimilitude
writing system
