Language is arbitrary. When we see a letter, we expect a specific pronunciation, but that expectation does not necessarily correspond to the actual sound.

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This work is an experiment that converts a spectrogram into the shape of a letter and then replays it as sound.
The spectrogram shaped like a letter evokes the meaning and pronunciation associated with that character.

However, the sound that is played back is not the familiar pronunciation, but a sound generated according to the principles of the spectrogram.

Through this process, the connection between meaning and sound is dismantled, revealing the arbitrariness and invisible structures inherent in language.

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When sound becomes text, and the text is once again reduced back into sound, do we perceive it as meaning, or do we recognize it merely as a wave?

This work is a derivative experiment from the [Voice - The Warmest Wave] project, exploring how the arbitrary relationship between text and meaning can be recognized and how it can be transformed into a new sensory experience by stripping away semantic information from language.