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"Voice, The Warmest Wave" 
 

2024 - 2025

Installation

Record player, sound, speaker vibration unit,
water, spotlight, digital print

variable size

This work is an experimental exploration of the essence of love through the medium of voice.

By recording the voice of a loved one, converting the data into music, and engraving it onto a record, the artist attempts to give permanence to an otherwise vanishing phenomenon.

There is a painting by Francis Barraud (1898) titled His Master’s Voice.
It depicts a dog listening intently to a phonograph playing the voice of its deceased master.
This image has long been cherished as a symbol of traditional records and music labels, raising a question:
How can sounds that carry memories achieve permanence?

It also points to the emotional origins and essential nature of recording media that strive to engrave traces of existence.

The voice, infused with memory and emotion, is eternally replayed within the medium.
The artist strips away the linguistic information from the voice, preserving only musical elements such as frequency, pitch, and rhythm.


Instrumental textures are layered onto it, transforming the voice into a new sensory experience.

The vibrations that once were a voice become music, repeatedly performed.
Through a vibration speaker, the sound is transmitted onto the surface of water, where it undulates like waves, evolving into a visual metaphor.

Can such a vibration possess warmth?
Can the wave of one individual become a source of comfort, like music, to another?

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©2024  KIM Jihye

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