ESLCE II
For the second iteration of Everything sounds like crying eventually, Tearjerkers (Michelle Bunton and GHY Cheung) created an interactive virtual sound environment that was made publicly accessible online. Multiple people can access the virtual environment at the same time to engage with each other as well as objects in the space. As different interactions trigger different sounds, people gathering in the space creates the possibility for a polyphonous song that approximates a collective chorus of crying.
This project was the second study undertaken for our multi-part ongoing exploration of sustaining intimacies across-and-at-a-distance as gestures of queer worldmaking. As such, the project built on a previous study by attempting to imagine alternative metrics of closeness when the physical is out of reach. ESLCE II was created with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Originals Project Grant. Coding assistance by Matthan Moktar.
