Early in our second workshop, one of the groups started experimenting with stretching the timing of their synthetic voice.
These experiments triggered reflections on how time is experienced differently by different species. Trees, for example, live at a slower timespan than humans, while birds might experience time faster than us. By stretching out the timing of the synthetic voice, we can imagine channelling the vocal expressions of trees.
In another vein, the participants at the workshop considered that a slowly timed synthetic voice modulating between different levels of slowness might sound somewhat like chanting or a call to prayer.
All of these considerations and reactions to manipulating a single parameter show us how synthetic voices have the potential to evoke different vocal identities that move into the more-than-human.