...And A Word Carries Far (installation recording) by grahamdunning2

http://grahamdunning.com/and-a-word-carries-far-2011/
“There is a weird power in a spoken word… And a word carries far — very far — deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
- Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Site-specific installation for the LV21 decommissioned Light Ship. Viewers were invited to read aloud from a copy of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim in which phrases relating to either sound or sea collisions had been underlined. The signal from the microphone was amplified inside a large metal tank two decks below, picked up again by a stereo pair of microphones and fed back into the headphones, causing a long, metallic reverberation effect.
Shown at LV21, Gillingham, Kent, April 2011.