On the next page you can have a look on a map of the languages, classified alphabetically, where colors represent the different languages or accents:
Languages:
Catalan man, Chinese woman, Dutch man, English (England) man, English (United States) man, French man
German man, Greek man, Hebrew man, Hungarian man, Iranian (Farsi) man, Italian woman, Portuguese (Brazil) woman
Spanish (Argentina) woman, Spanish ( Colombia) woman, Spanish ( Colombia) man, Spanish (Costa Rica) man
Spanish (Mexico) woman, Spanish (Spain) man, Japanese man
Families:
Latin (BLUE), Anglo-saxons( ORANGE), Germanics (ROSE), Semitic (GREEN), Asiatics (BLACK), Greek (BROWN), Fino-ugrian (WHITE)
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THE TRACKS
Theese are the 4 tracks that compose the human track:
American english | hungarian | Spanish (Mexico) |
Span. (Argen- -tina) |
Spanish(Spain) | italian | greek | persian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
chinese | japanese | french | Brazilian portuguese | Spanish (Colombia) man |
c h i n e s e |
catalan | german | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
japanese | Spanish (Colombia) woman |
hebrew | dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spanish (Costa Rica) |
italian | English (Oxford!) |
Explainations about the voices assembling concept:
At the beginning people talk one after the other. Little by little they start overlapping, and even talking in the same time. The intensity increases and about the middle of the piece you can hear many people talking together. Then again people speak more separately, and one after one.
Order of appearance:
The american starts. He is joined by the the chinese, cut by the japanese, and the frence appears. He is followed by the hungarian. Till here I mixed very different languages and sounds together. But after the french spoke, I started including another latin language: portugese, and then another one: spanish.
The spanish group will be composed of 6 different accents (women and men) and will be shortly interrupted by the chinese (again; to cut the uniformity of one language), and will be followed by two other latin languages: italian and catalan.
Then comes a big change: hebrew, followed by greek (spoken by the same person; differences between two languages but similitude because of the same speaker).
Then follows german and his cousin the dutch (pay attention to the similitude). This anglo-saxon atmosphere is shortly cut by the persian (also indo-european even if written with arabic letters) and followed by english, which makes the connection with the beginning (american): again we have the perpetual circle.
Meaning of the words:
This is a sort of a poetry, connected to the tetrahedron. But the meaning of the words is not more important than the sounds, the melody. Also I wanted this poetry to be absurd and humorous because I think that humor is important in arts, as well as in life in general.
There are 7 main sentences (as we have 7 groups of "pure styles). The sentences have been translated to other languages. But I asked the people not to say always the sentences as written, but to modify, improvise, and use expressions proper to their own language or country, even to add what they feel, words, exclamations.
The main sentences:
1. "GEOMETRY, SHE IS A TEN YEARS OLD MEGALO-MATHEMATICIAN"
2. "I HAVE A TRIGONOMETRICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HER"
3. "OCTOGONS HAVE SEVEN SIDES: SIX REAL AND ONE ABSTRACT"
4. "THE TWO HYDRAS LIKE MY TETRAHEDRON"
5. "I KNOW THE TETRAHEDRON"
6. "HIS FOUR FACES ARE MY FRIENDS"
7. "HE IS IN THE SEA, HE IS IN HTE SKY, IN THE CENTER OF THE
EARTH AND IN THE DROPS OF THE RAIN"
The improvised sentences:
Chinese: "HE IS ALL OVER THE WORLD"
"HE IS THE LIFE"
Spanish: "I AM SORRY BUT THIS IS MY ROOM "
Hungarian: "EXCUSE ME PLEASE, IS THE TETRAHEDRON A TOWER?"
"ENTRANCE : I WOULD LIKE TO EAT"
"GOOD!"
"GOOD APETITE !! HOW MUCH ? "
"YES, THANK YOU. "
"BYE...."
Hebrew: "NEW AGES ARRIVED: TETRAHEDRON ’ S TIME"
"HE IS SLEEPING NOW, WITH TWELVE OTHERS.
EXACTLY THE SAME."
"TWENTY TETRAHEDRONS HAVE BEEN STICKED
TO SPREAD NEW SOUNDS AND SMELLS IN
THE WORLD"
Greek: "WHERE IS THE TETRAHEDRON ? "
"GOOD MORNING, MY FRIEND. WHERE ARE YOU FROM ? "
"FROM HERE"
"SO ...... TONIGHT....."
"YOU ARE THE SUN OF MY LIFE "
"OPEN ! "
"A SWEET GREEK COFFEE WITH MILK , PLEASE. "
Persian: "HELLO. HOW ARE YOU? "
"WHAT ‘S YOUR NAME ? MY NAME IS TETRAHEDRON."
"YOU ARE THE SUN OF MY LIFE. "
"YOU ARE THE STAR OF MY DAYS. "
"HAVE WE BEEN IN THE RIVER? NO. LET ‘S GO TO THE PARTY. "
"I DO. GOOD BYE AND GOOD NIGHT."