Miss Clock (into the groove) – Anna Lundh

Anna Lundh, PhD student at Konstfack, is showing the sound installation "Miss Clock (into the groove)" at TEKNO festival in Malmö 12-14 november at Inter Arts Center.

Lundh traces the origins of ”speaking technologies” back to 1934 when the groundbreaking time-telling service ”Fröken Ur” (Miss Clock) was introduced in Sweden. ”Miss Clock” can be considered one of the first automated voice assistants and is an early example of when technology is described as a hybrid between woman and machine. In this 8-channel work, Lundh has decoded and digitized long-lost optical sound film negatives from the archive. When the historic time announcements in over a dozen languages are freed from their original function, each number instead plays in its own rhythmic loop, transforming a hidden structural break into a distinct ”beat” that connects directly to recent neurological research about the human "groove experience."

TEKNO is a festival in Malmö exploring the intersection of music, sound and technology.