Anna Samsøe & Andreas Stoubye, VAGUS. Photo: Per Andersen.

Press Release, April 2021

Satelite-text:

... but how would you spell it?

The following text passages are excerpts from a study on onomatopoeia (words that phonetically resemble the sound that they describe) lead by the Chicago Institute of Binaural Sciences (CIBS) under the title ‘Relational studies on limitations, possibilities and influences of consonants on the creation of novel onomatopoeia within the English language on the basis of rare and undocumented binaural experiences’ co-authored by Prof. Dr. Herman Siebenmorgen and Prof. Fredric Zoltan Gabór (CIBS-press, 2012).

Part 1

(transcripts of the participants literal descriptions of extraordinary sound experiences)

Participant 3:

"I wanted to find out what kind of sounds a Corythosaurus might have made as its mating call. The way that the dinosaur produced sound is intimately connected with the interior spaces and solids in its skull and so I used CT scan data in order to generate a digital replica of the skull. I used a 3D printer to create the nasal passages and crafted the rest of the skull out of clay”

(...)

"By blowing air in through the larynx of the replica, we can hear, for the first time in 65

million years, what the dinosaur might have sung to attract a mate.”

Part II

The participants were asked to create an onomatopoeia using the 26 letters of the Englishalphabet to phonetically document the previously described sound.

Participant 3: „Wfpfwfuhhhwpf”

(Text by Gisa Pantel)

Exhibition period: April 22 - May 7, 2021.