Kichul Kim has been working with interactive sound installation since the early 1990s. His contributions to sound sculptures are captured in his interpretation of spatial changes and time recognition that uses sound. In mid 2000’s, there was an introduction to new technologies that enabled semiotic analysis to separate sound from voice. Ever since this invention, Kim has carried out numerous interactive experiments.
MediaCity Seoul 2012 introduces Love or Sugarcoated for the first time, Kim uses sound recordings of 5,000 words, categorized by different levels of emotions and sets of bell sounds in the gallery when the audience utters some words in front of it. He believes that words like love, feeling, dream and eternity each possess a value and reach the expected emotional height through gradually increasing the tone. Speech Recognition Technology keeps developing from a technical categorization to form a delicate semantic compound and interpretation.
