LookingOutwards-02

Section E, Clare Katyal

I researched the Nonsense Laboratory created by Allison Parrish in 2021. This project uses a program created by Parrish called Pincelate. This program breaks down English words into their phonetics. The idea of the program is to play with the way words are spelled the same way you play with clay or with notes on an instrument. The program inputs words, translates them into how they sound in the mouth, and then ejects a word for the program’s user to try to say. I admire how versatile the program is because it is able to work with any word, and even words that aren’t really words, like made up sounds or jumbles of letters. The front-end implementation was created by Allison Parrish, while the visuals of the program and instructions were created by Jenny Goldstick and Tim Szetela. Allison Parrish creates many different programs playing on scrambled words, which is interesting because it makes one think about how every word we know is just random letters put together. It is cool to think about how people create the words that have so much meaning to people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
Created by Allison Parrish
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nonsense-laboratory/