Qlimate Tongues explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies.

Audiences hear hybrid human and non-human voices generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds generated by quantum computing, inviting them to think about how advance technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.

Heaney trained an AI on her self-recorded data set of human and non-human voices, spanning different types of human chanting, bird song, rumblings of inanimate equipment in quantum computing laboratories and the sounds of water flowing.

Qlimate Tongues was then composed using Heaney’s self-written quantum computing sound tools.

As people move between the 8 speakers, they hear different voices and sounds become loud and then fall quiet following strange quantum patterns, suggestive of unseen connections and complex relations between all things.

The project highlights the non-binary nature of quantum computing and the non-linear temporalities of quantum entanglement, offering new ways to understand and perceive the environment from different perspectives simultaneously.

Qlimate Tongues was commissioned by Unfold X, Seoul and presented in Seoul with a 5x9m site specific image.