During my vocal performance, I hope to be more neutral in character, sex and nationality => so need an alter-ego performancer!
Maybe, what I need is not a performancer as alterego, but an "extra-ego" or becoming ventriloquist. My identity should present during my performance staying in comfort-zone for voice.
Laurie Anderson - O superman
Pete Drake & his talking steel guitar - Forever
Full Queerocracy Now!: Pink Totaliterianism and the Industrialization of Libidinal Agriculture
There is, however, a class of people who think that the police are not their problem, a class of people who think that the police are protecting them. They think so because they hold property that they know would be distributed to the queer class if social norms, exploitation, and the state apparatus would not prevent that. They benefit from the transformation of libidinal capital(pleasure, seduction, jouissance) into financial capital (money).
The easiest way to intervene directly into the material conditions of the gendered relations of a society is to poison the water with testosterone blockers.
Keywords by Raymond Williams
HEGEMONY It is also different from IDEOLOGY (q.v.) in that it is seen to depend for its hold not only on its expression of the interests of a ruling class but also on its acceptance as ‘normal reality’ or ‘commonsense’ by those in practice subordinated to it.
Dialet What is at issue in the history is not the evident fact that ways of speaking differ in different parts of a country or other language area, but the confidence of that designation as ‘subordinate’. This is closely related to the development of the idea of a STANDARD English or other language, in which a selected (in English, class-based) usage becomes authoritative and dominant (‘correct’).(...) In their own place (if they can resist what are often formidable pressures) it is their own language - a specific language like any other. In comparable ways, a dialect is simply the way of speaking in a particular place.
The Media Equation by Byron Reeves
Media and Social Roles, Gender
Hear what a genderless AI voice sounds like—and consider why it matters
As former Quartz reporter Leah Fessler has pointed out, the tech companies’ choices are driven by purely commercial motivations. “Women’s voices make more money,” she wrote in a story exploring how bots are trained to respond to sexual harassment. Indeed, research has shown that people find voices that are perceived as female “warm,” and that men and women both have a preference for women’s voices
On city streets and in subways, however, you may be more likely to hear a male automated voice give commands, because lower-pitched voices are typically deemed more authoritative and influential. In other words, it’s not that companies choose to be sexist; they’re just taking gender cues from us—and from pop culture, which still almost invariably depicts all-knowing assistants as female—when they could be leading us to a more enlightened place. genderless voice Q
=> but the use of my voice is not for making money nore attract someone.
=> voice = a complaint tool against discrimination
=> resist socials expectations of my voices, changing the message; use of words / none use of imperative sentence or tag question, etc
=> use my voice sooo often that mine is considered as neutral or a defaults
Female voice : selling, comforting, smoothing
Male voice : Neutrality, Authority, Security => a voice for dictionary, manual, manifesto...
Etymology of Dictionary
1520s, from Medieval Latin dictionarium "collection of words and phrases," probably a shortening of dictionarius (liber) "(book) of words," from Latin dictionarius "of words," from dictio "a saying, expression," in Late Latin "a word," noun of action from past-participle stem of dicere "speak, tell, say," from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly."
What is Standart Dictionary ? A personal space where my English is considered as standard, neutral and dominant. My female voice, as a tool for neutrality and my accents prescribing "Standard" English in this space. Dictionary of the possibility(accent, diallect or simple spelling mistake).
How it works? Pronunciation, definition and spelling are generated randomly through python. But its number of cases are limited and the linguistic elements remain comprehensible in some degree.
Why it works so? I used random system to talk about the linguistic flexibility. But limited possibility/flexibility, because my English is not completely arbitrary (I'm not inventing the language, but these are the mixture of Korean, French and English).
What is the use of this dictionary?
Do I invite other (encourage to send me their pronunciation or using php?) or stay as a personal linguistic paradise?
No invitation. When many peple participate, we take the diversity for granted. I believe, when all variations come from one person, it emphasizes the probability in anyone's language.
Go back to initiative purpose of this dictionary!
What is the system in my dictionary? Totally arbitrary or with some rule?
Random selection is used but not totally arbitrary. => selected among prepared elements in list.
How do I select the word? (for now, some words that I had a problem to pronounce)
I choose words from the reference texts. Words that I pronounced differently from the normal dictionary => then why not make these texts accessible to the audience?
Martha Rosler - Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975