Description
Cosmosmose, Germany 2017
“Drone Pilot is a set of vocal and kinetic poems created for live performance. The project abstractly traces a path of telepresent violence: an American drone pilot waking in the morning, traveling to work, entering a bunker, connecting to a global military apparatus, merging consciousness with the system, and killing a child with a Hellfire missile on the far side of the world.
Drone Pilot explores the moral complicity of a singular individual within an impossibly huge and dehumanizing power structure. To what degree is each of us responsible for violence inflicted in our name, on our behalf, by a system that we have questionable degrees of agency within?”
Drone Pilot by writer, sound artist, and programmer Ian Hatcher (*1983). His work explores cognition in the context of digital systems. While studying Digital Language Arts at Brown University, he came up with his own propositions in this field: the way he trained his own voice, prosody and word-flow to mimick the qualities and even glitches of speech-synthesis is extremely suitable for a realization in sound
