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Mirror Tongue "Peggy Gordan"
Concerned with how language and learning physically alters the brain and thus perception. Eoin is also an language teacher, musician, and has experienced his share head trauma. This project involved the artist memorizing a reversed recording of the 19th century folk song 'Peggy Gordon', a song of personal familial significance. Adapted from performance, he records himself singing the piece, both forward and backwards, and then demonstrates the recording in reverse. Reverse-speech itself being of no seminal academic value other than demonstrating the brain's remarkable ability to adapt and attribute new symbols and systems to create meaning.
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