Spoken Wor(l)d - Celebrating Human Speech and Language Through Electronic Music

• Thematic framework: Music/Art
• Geographical outreach: International
• Types of project: Awareness-raising
  
  
• Main responsible:
  Roger Velasquez
  10 rue Camille Desmoulins
  Levallois Perret
  France
  

Summary of the activities
Music is communication, the ultimate universal language. Now imagine creating music using more than thirty of other human languages. That is exactly what ‘Spoken Wor(l)d’ is about. Roger Velasquez (aka Phileas), the artist and producer of the project spent three years wandering the globe collecting voice
samples. The theory behind this unique concept is that music unifies all these diverse voices.

However, what makes his music different is that the voice is used just as others might use an instrument: the meaning of the words is less important than the sound that they make. So many voices, all speaking their own language, but somehow brought together to sound as one, guide the listener through a journey filled with unity and harmonic coexistence. As the artist says, ‘Spoken Wor(l)d’ is more than a record: “It is a positive message about the diversity and similarity of the people of this world”.