TokiSonus ( lit. Sound Language) is a sound project designed as an approach to build a system or a non-verbal "alphabet”, where sounds and signs are correlated in such a way that users can construct their own message and establish a basic form of conversation. TokiSonus is a combination of two words: toki, which means talk/language in Toki Pona (constructed language) and sonus, in Greek meaning sound. It’s a new form of interaction, where Toki Pona glyphs associatively navigate through everyday sounds of Aalborg, creating new narratives through engaging in a stream of memories. The purpose is to create a sonic archive of these sounds while experimenting with the usage of language as a storytelling/communicative device. The actual keyboard of computer has been transformed, letters have been replaced by glyphs and each of them is connected with one sound. Giving these keys a new life affords the participant the ability to record sonic messages, encoded with their personal sentiments, these messages can be shared and will be saved in our sound archive, with their accompanying verbal translation.

Biography

Louise Hisayasu is a researcher from Sāo Paulo, Brazil. Throughout the last decade, she has been based in London and Berlin working in the fields of music communication, events production and archiving. She is interested in the intersectional space and grey areas that exist between culture, language, memories and the arts.

Binh Nguyen was working in Advertising as a copywriter with an undergraduate degree in Literature & Communication from National University in Vietnam. Joining Media Arts Cultures helps her to further develop her interest in BioArt and BioCouture, especially in new sustainable textile materials in fashion industry.

Gohar Vardanyan is an art historian from Armenia, where she was a lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art History in Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts and in few non-formal educational spaces. She had participated in various conferences and talks, organized workshops for students, wrote articles and concepts for exhibitions. She also participated in few exhibitions as a conceptual artist.