AI voice simualtion with text animation (HD video, 3 min. 59 sec., loop, with sound)

“…It was as if the physical world were really tissue-paper-thin […] and I was flung through the tissue paper with a huge ripping sound”, Jane Roberts reflects on her prime perception of the spirit medium Seth, having expressed itself through her voice.Roberts delivered numerous speeches and spiritual teachings as Seth “in a deep, masculine-like voice”. Transcripts and recordings of these ‘sessions’ were published, being regarded as a cornerstone of New Age philosophy.
Proceeding from the ‘Seth phenomena’characterized by the conveyance of multiple identities’ voice characteristics through a single person, the entanglement of voice and identity inlight of artificial intelligence is questioned. Using voice cloning programs and digital documentary material, the voices of Seth and Roberts will be ‘studied’ and eventually resynthesized. The work title originates from an excerpt of a Seth session on identities in a “great spiritual and biological nature”. To this end, the spiritual medium will be ‘reincarnated’ and the myth of immortal spiritual leadership investigated in relation toa time in which replication of vocal identity becomes a mass product.