The project is an improvised performance using a real-time generative speech and sound synthesiser.

The speech Guitar is an instrument to create coral music by chance, improvisation and emotionally expressed speech synthesis. The project considers possibilities of using an appropriated, modified graphics tablet combined with joystick potentiometers as a device for parametric control of the Mac OS and Flite Speech Synthesisers.

When playing this instrument the performer emulates a guitarist, the same control can be obtained with a graphics tablet and joystick lying on a table, it is important during the performance to have and interface similar to that of a musical instrument.

By holding the graphics tablet in a similar way as a guitar and drawing upon its surface during a performance feels natural. It also challenges why a digital devices should conform to a typical desktop interface.

The project encourages the performer to move away from behind the laptop and bringing them closer to the audience by adopting the role of a Cyber-busker. It is a combination between aesthetic of Rock music and Digital music that engages your whole body to be able to perform with it.