Mother Tounge, performance no.3 inside Librarium Futurum by Marja-leena Sillanpää, Marabouparken, Stockholm, 2026

Performance with Mamadou Sissoko, software (designed by Fredrik Bridell) and sound system.

©Arijana Kajfes

Mother Tounge is a fortune wheel that randomly generates the phonetic alphabet, a standardized representation of the sounds

of spoken language. As it rotates, the wheel interface gives binary values which trigger the phonemes. The public is encouraged

to pose questions, the phoneme generator answers and is translated with the assistance of AI trained to find words in all languages. The answer is written on a card returned to the person asking.